Peaks and Passes in the Solu - Khumbu (Everest) Region Mandy Talbot - November 2009 The Solu-Khumbu region is described in guide-books as the 'Jewel in the Crown' of The Nepalese Himalayas. It is a tremendously stunning area of towering 8000 meter plus snow covered peaks including Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse, Lhotse Shar and Makalu plus lots of peaks well over 7000 meters spanning the length of the Tibetan boarder as well as many giant glacier systems... It...

I have been very bad keeping my blog site up to date recently - so here is a case study i put together for VSO outlining the problems that Dalits face and the work that the VSO and the vols are doing to support the Dalit community of Nepal secure their rights VSO ADVOCACY CASE STUDY: NEPAL - Participation & Governance The Dalit CSO Consortium's influence on the new constitution VSO Nepal's Participation and Governance programme: VSO Nepal's Participat...

Trekking in the Langtang Himalayas - April 2009 For my second trip to the mountains in Nepal - I headed to the delightful Langtang Himalayas in April. These are the mountains which I can see from my apartment roof top in Sanepa, Patan (Kathmandu) which lie only about 40 km north of Kathmandu as the crow flies but take some time to get to due to the incredibly hilly terrain and poor state of the roads. The Langtang mountain region is less visited than the ...

Nepal Update Early 2009 -Work - Training on the Terai 2009 has been flying by so far and my sunny Christmas trip to Chitwan National Park to see the elephants seems quite along time ago now and I have actually been quite focussed on work the last few months. So what have I been doing ....We had our partnership review with VSO to look at our progress made in 2008. (Just a reminder I work for a The Dalit NGO the Dalit NGO federation (DNF), as an Organisati...

Here is another update from the birding trips I do very early on a Saturday morning out and about round the Kathmandu valley with friends of birds Birdwatching at Bajrabarahi in the Kathmandu valley on 7 March 2009 - Report by Vimal Thapa friends of Birds: The birding at Bajrabarahi went well and we were lucky to record some good number of birds listed as below, though we could have seen always more and the hunger to see is never satisfied as far as I am conce...