HimalayaNet #71 (June 16, 2000)
Namaste, and welcome to the 71st edition of HimalayaNet, the online
newsletter of the Himalayan Explorers Club. This month, our travel
updates include news of Indian Airlines resuming service from Delhi
to Kathmandu, information on ACAP entry fees, and a message from
Jamie McGuinness on the condition of the Tibet/Nepal friendship
bridge.
Please send all contributions to himalayanet@egroups.com, and remember
to include your membership number if you'd like to post a message.
We are also very interested in sharing the travel information or
updates you have received from other HEC members.
Kathie A. Mears
HimalayaNet Moderator
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. HIMALAYAN NEWS #12 AVAILABLE
2. INDIAN AIRLINES RESUMES NEPAL SERVICE
3. ACAP ENTRY FEE RAISED
4. TIBET/NEPAL FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE UPDATE
5. TIBET INFORMATION NETWORK
6. SEARCHING FOR DANIELE TENTORI
7. EVEREST ROUND-UP
8. RHINO POPULATION INCREASES IN NEPAL
9. CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM RECREATION RESEARCH
10. SYNCHY: INT'L. MOUNTAIN ASCENTS TO HONOR WOMEN
11. HEC MEMBERS LOOKING FOR TRAVEL COMPANIONS/ADVICE
11A. MEMBERS NEED TRAVEL TIPS FOR NEPAL JOURNEY
11B. MEMBER SEEKS INFO ON OVERLAND LHASA - KATHMANDU TRIP
11C. NEPAL AIRLINE TICKET AVAILABLE
11D. LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEER WORK IN PAKISTAN NATIONAL PARK
11E. SEEKING PARTNER FOR TIBET BASECAMP TREK
11F. LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE UPPER MUSTANG REGION
12. ADVENTUROUS TRAVELER BOOKSTORE SPONSORSHIP
13. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
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HIMALAYAN EXPLORERS CLUB MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
1. HIMALAYAN NEWS #12 AVAILABLE
The latest issue of Himalayan News was mailed to HEC members in
mid-May. Some highlights from the issue include:
a)Jim Nowak and Kim Reynolds have raised over $40,000 for the Friendship
House, a safe-house in Nepal for girls at risk of being sold into
prostitution or child labor (kimnjim@ridgwayco.net)
b)David Reed, author of the Rough Guide to Nepal, discusses trekking
in Nepal with small children (http://www.mountainexplorers.org/info/faqs/children.htm)
c)Jamie McGuinness adventures "off the beaten track" to climb Tengkoma,
a newly opened trekking peak near Kanchenjunga.
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News and HimalayaNet, but also allows us to complete the Sewangma
Bridge Project, renovate and expand the Sano-Gomela School, and
develop our new Porter Clothing Bank (in cooperation with the International
Porter Protection Group).
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2. INDIAN AIRLINES RESUMES NEPAL SERVICE
After a five-month-long suspension of its flights to Kathmandu following
the hijacking of IC-814 to Kandahar, Indian Airlines (IA) resumed
its service to Nepal on June 1, 2000. The first flight left at 11.15
a.m. with full capacity, IA officials said, adding that the return
flight also was almost full. The new Chairman and Managing Director
of IA, Mr. Sunil Arora, was among the passengers in the first flight.
IA formally announced resumption of its daily flights from Delhi
and Calcutta, with additional service soon from Varanasi, after
India and Nepal entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
during the visit of Nepalese Foreign Minister, Mr. Chakra Prasad
Bastola, to Delhi last month. Nepal had assured full security at
the Tribhuvan airport.
Under the agreement that followed prolonged talks, the Nepalese
authorities accepted the demand of IA for installation of an additional
X-ray machine as well as a final check by Indian security personnel
at the Kathmandu airport. This would be in addition to the security
drill for passengers carried out by Nepalese authorities, the officials
said.
The IC-814 flight had been hijacked by Pakistan-backed terrorists
on December 24. The week-long hijacking ended at Kandahar airport
in Afghanistan. One passenger, Rupen Katyal, was stabbed to death
by the hijackers.
3. ANNAPURNA CONSERVATION AREA PROJECT ENTRY FEE RAISED
Citing the need to generate cash for conservation and local development,
Nepal has raised entry fees for foreign tourists at two ecotourism
sites in the western part of the Himalayan kingdom
The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation said foreign visitors
would be charged 2,000 rupees (about $29) each to enter the Annapurna
and Manaslu conservation areas,. ''Part of the money will go to
conservation work, and the rest will be spent on the development
of the local villages close to Annapurna and Manaslu,'' said Jai
Pratap Rana, chief of the trust.
Gelbu Sherpa, from the HEC Clubhouse, reports that new ACAP fees
are effective starting January 2001 (the current fee is 1,000 rupees).
Gelbu also reports that the National Park fee has been raised from
650 rupees to 1,000 rupees.
Conservation fees remain the same for other trekking areas: Everest
(Sagarmatha), Langtang, and Kanchenjunga are Rs 650 per person,
Makalu-Barun wildlife reserve is Rs 1,000 per person.
4. TIBET/NEPAL FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE UPDATE
We received a few reports in the last two weeks about the Tibet/Nepal
Bridge. First Wold Tibet News reported the bridge had collapsed:
KATHMANDU, June 8 (AFP) - The 65-metre (213 ft) Friendship Bridge
across the Kodari pass, linking Tibet and Nepal, has collapsed after
developing serious cracks, a government official said Thursday.
The bridge, built by China in the late 1960s on the mountainous
highway which links Kathmandu with Lhasa, developed the cracks after
being used by 26 Chinese trucks transporting heavy equipment for
two hydro-electric projects in Tibet, an official from the Ministry
of Public Works and Transport said.
We then learned that, at worst, the bridge may have developed some
minor cracks, requiring that one truck at a time cross the bridge.
Jamie McGuinness then reported that his friend Jeetendra returned
from Zhangmu and said nothing is wrong with the bridge. He did mention,
however, that there is a landslide above Zhangmu that stops vehicles
from reaching Zhangmu, although sometimes Landcruisers can cross
it. So everything and everyone crosses it and then transfers to
a truck. This will change when the road is repaired - normal monsoon
stuff. Jamie felt that [for tourists] it doesn't matter if the bridge
is walkable only, as long as there is a bridge!
Jamie also reported that individuals with Chinese visas are, in
groups of three minimum, allowed to cross the border providing they
hire a Landcruiser from Zhangmu to Shigatse or Lhasa, and then the
Chinese travel agent can get the Alien Travel Permit sorted. The
going rate is $350-600 total. There is no leaving this Landcruiser
until Shigatse but you could then backtrack.
5. TIBET INFORMATION NETWORK
Tibet Information Network (TIN) is a non-profit organization, registered
as a charity in the UK and with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in the
USA. Tibet Information Network (TIN) was set up in 1987 specifically
to educate the world about what is happening in Tibet. TIN is the
only wholly independent and comprehensive information source on
Tibet today, reporting not only on human rights abuses but also
on religious, social, economic, environmental and health-related
issues.
You can support TIN's work through our Gere Foundation appeal. The
(Richard) Gere Foundation has recently pledged $50,000 to help TIN's
unique work. For every dollar or pound we raise, the Foundation
will donate another dollar or pound, up to a maximum of $50,000.
See the TIN web site for more information about this appeal, TIN's
news and publications and a special section entitled "Travel to
Tibet"
http://www.tibetinfo.net
The information that TIN gathers is used by a wide range of people
and organizations with an interest in or influence over the future
of Tibet: UN Rapporteurs, Government departments (including the
US State Dept.), journalists, diplomats, human rights monitors (such
as Amnesty International) and campaigners, development agencies,
lawyers, academics and religious bodies. TIN's subscribers receive
more than 40 TIN News Updates and up to six TIN Briefing Papers
(between 25 and 300 pages each) every year.
TIN news and information in English, Chinese and Tibetan is posted
on the 1,000-plus pages of TIN's website http://www.tibetinfo.net
while 12 years-worth of documentation of Tibetan political prisoners
is recorded on TIN's custom-built Prisoner Database, an invaluable
research tool for TIN and other organisations such as Amnesty International
and Human Rights Watch.
6. SEARCHING FOR DANIELE TENTORI
The Italian citizen DANIELE TENTORI is missing. He is 35 years of
age. Circa 1.80 m. tall, well-built, dark blond hair which is normally
close shaven, face normally shaven, wears glasses, one earring.
Two tattoos on upper arms: one large black panther, one bracelet.
He was in the north of India, at the base of Himalayas where he
was going trekking for 3-4 weeks. He was due back in Delhi by May
18 at the latest, where he was going to pick up his Italian Passport
(stolen from him) at the Italian Embassy in Delhi.
Daniele left from Uttarkasi with a Spanish or Latin American couple,
Amelia and Fran, on April 21. The group consisted of three tourists
and 2 local guides. Daniele was planning to stay out 15 days and
expected to finish the trek on May 2. They arrived in Dodi-tal on
April 29. There, the couple fell ill with giardia and remained for
two days, with one guide, before going back to Uttarkasi. Daniele
continued the trek, accompanied by the other guide. He may also
have had the first symptoms of giardia, which might have made travel
difficult later. He apparently did not intend to return to Uttarkasi,
but had arranged for the trekking agency to forward his pack to
another village in Himachal Pradesh. The name of the agency is still
unknown, but it is apparently based in Uttarkasi.
Daniele Tentori was last seen in Dodi-tal on April 29, and expected
to finish the tour on May 2. On the May 22 he was supposed to leave
Delhi for London. He never got to the Embassy in Delhi.
If anybody has any news of him, please contact immediately the Italian
consulate in Delhi at: italemb@del3.vsnl.net.in
as well as his family at: nuti@piussi.freeserve.co.uk
or the address and phone below:
Anna Piussi / 35 Warnborough Rd. / Oxford OX2 6JA / tel: 0044-1865-
433349
7. EVEREST ROUND-UP
Does anyone care? Someone must, as a search on altavista.com found
nearly 28,000 entries for "mount everest". The latest news from
spring 2000:
Speed: Climbing from basecamp in Nepal, Sherpa guide Babu Chiri,
34, summitted Mt. Everest in less than 16 hours and 56 minutes,
setting a record for the fastest climb of the world's highest peak.
Old age: Albert C. Hanna, 69, turned back 1,000 feet from the summit
due to high snow. Anna Czerwinska, a 50-year-old Polish shopkeeper
from Warsaw, became the oldest woman to summit.
Young age: Fifteen-year-old Temba Tsheri Sherpa turned back just
72 feet from the top. The teen was hospitalized in Kathmandu, reportedly
having lost parts of some fingers.
Repitition: Apa Sherpa, 40, made his 11th successful ascent, and
has climbed the mountain more times than any other person.
The Yak route: Everest has now been climbed 1,173 times, by 874
people. Nearly 180 people have lost their lives trying.
Real Kudos: Go to Lhakpa Sherpa, the first Nepali woman to scale
Mt Everest and successfully climb down.
8. RHINO POPULATION INCREASES IN NEPAL
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU, May 30 - The population of the endangered great Asian
one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal has increased to 612 from 466 in
1994 due to the Himalayan kingdom's conservation efforts, a report
released on May 29 said.
Nepal has the second largest great single-horned rhino population
in the world after India where officials estimate there are about
1,300 rhinos in the wilds. The "Nepal Rhino Count 2000" conducted
by the government in April and May this year recorded 544 rhinos
in Chitwan in central Nepal and 67 in Bardiya in the western plains.
One rhino was located in Shuklaphanta wildlife reserve in a western
corner near India.
"The rise in the rhino population shows conservation success," Thirtha
Man Maskey, a senior official of Nepal's Department of National
Parks and Wildlife Conservation, told reporters. Officials said
Nepal launched a strict conservation program in 1972, after the
mountain nation's rhino population fell to 108 in the late 1960s
from 800 in 1950.
Wildlife officials said they were trying to control poaching of
rhinos whose parts are smuggled for religious and medicinal purposes
and fetch high prices in international markets. Nepal has strict
anti-poaching laws and anyone found guilty can be sentenced to 15
years in jail and fined 100,000 Nepali rupees ($1,400). Maskey said
Nepal had moved 52 rhinos from Royal Chitwan National Park, about
150 km (93 miles) south of Kathmandu, to Royal Bardiya National
Park in the western plains as part of its conservation drive supported
by the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
9. CALL FOR PAPERS: TOURISM RECREATION RESEARCH
We are putting up a special theme issue - "mountain tourism" --
of our journal Tourism Recreation Research. This theme edition of
Tourism Recreation Research invites the submission of theoretical,
conceptual and management oriented case studies which illustrate
the challenges and innovative sustainable approaches needed to manage
tourism development in mountain regions.
Submissions will be considered for publication related to such themes
as: Visitor management strategies; Best practices scenarios and
other sustainable tactics / programmes of operators; Tourism policy,
planning and design; The evolution of stakeholder relationships
and other strategic alliances; Human capacity building; Other emerging
ecotourism and sustainable tourism issues in mountain regions.
Deadline for Abstracts and other expressions of interest is December
31, 2000. Referencing and formatting guidelines can be accessed
from: http://www.trrworld.com/
Ecotourism abstracts to be sent to: Dr. David A. Fennell, Department
of Recreation & Leisure Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1
email: dfennell@arnie.pec.brocku.ca
Sustainable tourism abstracts to be sent to: Dr. Peter Williams,
The Centre for Tourism Policy & Research, Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6
email: peterw@popserver.sfu.ca
10. SYNCHY: INT'L. MOUNTAIN ASCENTS TO HONOR WOMEN
Twenty five international mountain climber groups will participate
in this event to honor the 25 Great Women of the 20th century. They
will climb different peaks located all over Kyrgyzstan in Central
Asia among the Tien Shan mountain range, tentatively on July 20,
2000, and at the same time - 8:00 a.m. local time. The implementation
of this project will draw the attention of the world community to
such global ecological problems as biological diversity in alpine
ecological systems that are by far and large on the edge of a questionable
balance.
To prepare for this international event, a database and a map were
developed in respect of the mountain routes to be explored; a number
of Kyrgyzstan's mountain-climbers were contacted and have prepared
to participate in the event. A number of foreign associations of
Alpine mountain climbers were also contacted and invited to participate.
Negotiations with a number of non-governmental women's organizations
are underway to promote the role of women in the development of
the countries of this world and society.
Project Manager - Marat Taliev
Chairman of the NGO "Synchy"
Erkindik Str. 56, 720040 Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Tel.: 0996 (312) 221938
E-mail: marat_taliev@mail.ru
11. HEC MEMBERS LOOKING FOR TRAVEL COMPANIONS/ADVICE
11A. MEMBERS NEED TRAVEL TIPS FOR NEPAL JOURNEY
We are planning to trek in Nepal this Autumn and are looking for
hints and tips to help make our trip successful. We would welcome
information on the following:
a)Can we get our visas for India in Kathmandu?
b)Has anyone stayed at the International Guest House? Can they recommend
it?
c)What is the typical cost of hiring a porter/guide? We plan to
trek the Annapurna Circuit again but to add in all the "extras".
d)Can we get Nepali lessons in Kathmandu and what would they cost?
We are looking for 2 hours a day for a week before we start trekking
and again at the end.
Barry and Margaret Bryan
barrybryan@yahoo.co.uk
11B. MEMBER SEEKS INFO ON OVERLAND LHASA - KATHMANDU TRIP
I need information on the overland trip from Lhasa to Kathmandu.
How best to get a single Chinese visa - not a group visa! Has anyone
done the trip recently? How much do I need to spend? I have the
"Lonely Planet: Tibet" but have found on my trip around the world
that some prices are far off by the time it is published. Has anyone
done the Mt. Kailash tour? I am planning on going for 4 weeks through
Tibet. Besides the famous monasteries what do you suggest on visiting
which is off the beaten track? I do public
adventure slide-shows. Please help. Thanks!
Elina Freitag-Galbreath
caidagaz@hotmail.com
11C. NEPAL AIRLINE TICKET AVAILABLE
Roundtrip ticket from Denver to Kathmandu. Approximately $1300/adult,
$1,000/child. Depart Denver November 24 with open return date. Contact
Gayle Renick for details. (303) 861-4230
gaylerenick@uswest.net
11D. LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEER WORK IN PAKISTAN NATIONAL PARK
I am planning a 3-5 month visit to Pakistan to visit my family.
I am enrolled in a wildlife conservation course at a University
in London and was looking for volunteer work in a national park
while I'm in Pakistan. I have also volunteered in a nature center
in England and am keen to get some more experience.
Sadeer Khalique
sinna786@hotmail.com
11E. SEEKING PARTNER FOR TIBET BASECAMP TREK
I'm looking for a partner(s) for trekking this autumn. Preferably
six weeks (mid-Sept though October) near Everest, Cho Oyu, and Shishapangma
basecamps in Tibet, and/or at least one month (November) to Kanchenjunga
in Nepal.
Clint Rogers
cbrogers@socrates.berkeley.edu
11F. LOOKING FOR RESEARCH INFORMATION ON THE UPPER MUSTANG REGION
I am looking for information about the Upper Mustang region of Nepal.
In particular, I am searching for information relating to the physical
environment of this area. I hope to study this region as part of
my MSc dissertation in Tourism and Environmental Management.
Gary Walder
gwalder@hotmail.com
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VOLUNTEER/STUDY ABROAD
Himalayan Study-Abroad Program. Applications now being accepted
for Fall 2000. Participants will study tourism development along
the Everest route, then design community development projects for
remote Rolwaling valley, according to individual interests and community
needs. Info: www.bridges-prtd.com
Contact: sicroff@bridges-prtd.com
Volunteer Nepal Himalaya offers participants a unique opportunity
to teach English in Sherpa villages in the Himalayas, near Mt. Everest.
Accommodations are with local families. While not teaching, participants
work on community service projects or explore the endless trails
and villages of the Khumbu region. For more information, please
contact the Himalayan Explorers Club at info@mountainexplorers.org or call (303) 998-0101.
The Nepal Volunteer Handbook offers potential volunteers everything
they will need to know about volunteering in Nepal, including a
personal skills assessment, background on the history of foreign
assistance in Nepal, tips for ensuring a worthwhile experience,
and information on over 50 volunteer leads. Contact the HEC at (303) 998-0101 or info@mountainexplorers.org
The Kathmandu Environmental Education Project (KEEP) is looking
for experienced volunteer English teachers to teach English and
educational workshops for sirdars, sherpas, cooks, and kitchen staff.
For more information please contact:
PT Sherpa"Kerung", Executive Director KEEP
tour@keep.wlink.com.np
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