Under the Himalayan Sky: Establishing Sagarmatha National Park: A New Zealand Family’s Experience
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1st. ed.
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9789937623650
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xii+303p.,
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Sagarmatha National Park is a stunningly beautiful part of Nepal, which includes the world’s highest mountain. It also home to the Sherpa people who originally traded goods across the Himalaya and lived a traditional life of agro-pastoralism. These were some of the reasons the park was listed as a World Heritage Area in 1979.
Today, 35,000 tourists and mountaineers flock to the park every year. Their expectations of modern comforts are largely met by large ...