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Kathmandu
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  • As we walked across the dirt landing strip to await a second flight into Kathmandu, Stuart, Caroline, and I were approached by three ashen-faced Japanese men.†   (source)
  • The next morning, Tuesday, Fischer considered calling for a helicopter to evacuate Ngawang from Base Camp to Kathmandu at an estimated cost of five to ten thousand dollars.†   (source)
  • By 1996, in addition to their permit fee, expeditions were required to post a $4,000 bond that would be refunded only if a predetermined amount of trash were carried back to Nainche and Kathmandu.†   (source)
  • Hall and some of his fellow guides also began working with government ministries in Kathmandu to formulate policies that encouraged climbers to keep the mountain clean.†   (source)
  • Before our group departed Kathmandu, he had sat all of us down and given us an uncommonly stern lecture about the need to show our Sherpa staff gratitude and proper respect.†   (source)
  • On the morning of March 31, two days after arriving in Kathmandu, the assembled members of the 1996 Adventure Consultants Everest Expedition walked across the tarmac of Tribhuvan International Airport and climbed aboard a Russian-built Mi-17 helicopter operated by Asian Airlines.†   (source)
  • Hall had booked us at the Garuda Hotel, a friendly, funky establishment in the heart of Thamel, Kathmandu's frenetic tourist district, on a narrow avenue choked with cycle ricks has and street hustlers.†   (source)
  • And as I had pointed out, this was in Neptune not Paradise, where, it may be, there perhaps is nothing else to be done, John Menlove Edwards Letter from a Man two hours into Thai Air flight 311 from Bangkok to Kathmandu, I left my seat and walked to the rear of the airplane.†   (source)
  • Then, when Ngawang stopped breathing in Pheriche and had to be evacuated to Kathmandu, Lopsang rushed down from Base Camp (with Fischer's encouragement) in time to accompany his uncle on the helicopter flight.†   (source)
  • Two days later, on Friday, April 26, the weather finally improved enough to permit a helicopter evacuation, and Ngawang was flown to a hospital in Kathmandu, but doctors there announced that he'd suffered grave damage to his brain.†   (source)
  • His brief trip to Kathmandu and speedy trek back to Base Camp left him quite fatigued and relatively poorly acclimatized-which didn't bode well for Fischer's team: Fischer relied on him at least as much as Hall relied on his climbing sirdar, Ang Dorje.†   (source)
  • She'd met Fischer by chance some months earlier in Kathmandu when he was finalizing his Everest permit, and he subsequently invited her to accompany his upcoming Everest expedition in the dual roles of team physician and Base Camp manager.†   (source)
  • Thanks, also, to David Schensted and Peter Bodde of the American Embassy in Kathmandu, Lisa Choegyal of Tiger Mountain, and Deepak Lama of Wilderness Experience Trekking for their assistance in the wake of the tragedy.†   (source)
  • 40 Both women, said Woodall, would accompany the team to Base Camp and he would choose one up Everest after evaluating their performance of them to continue during the trek. amp, On April 1, during the second day of my journey to Base C was surprised to run into February, Hackland, and de Klerk on the g out of the mountains, bound for ow Namche Bazaar, walkin trail bel Kathmandu.†   (source)
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