Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more of us to dwell on the past, our anchor), we find ourselves, more than ever, doing the splits, with one foot racing toward the future and the other firmly rooted in the past. "Fast" cultures fret over Y2K, and slower ones, some even with their own calendar (in Nepal or Ethiopia, say) hardly acknowledge that a new millennium is coming at all. The jangledness of inhabiting several time frames at once is the hallmark of our jet-lagged age. The clappers bang together on the sidewalk in Toronto, but they mark a clock without a face...
KATMANDU, NEPAL Climbing Mount Everest On New Year's Eve, a hardy band will camp at a 12,900-ft.-high monastery and dance with local Sherpas --$2,050, plus airfare --At least 30 expected...
...thousands of optimistic Chinese. Forty years later, it was the very same Tiananmen Square where Deng massacred hopeful Chinese. Now as China celebrates its 50th anniversary, President Jiang Zemin has promised a better future for thousands of hopeful Chinese people. Talk about history repeating itself. MAHESH SUBBA Kathmandu, Nepal...
Then, five years later, I met Les Schofield. I'd heard from Giri, his hair still raised from our road adventures (to unwind, he climbs mountains in Nepal), that a company in Springfield, Mass., was making a new kind of car I should check out. The next morning--I'd waited long enough--my wife and I drove the 80 miles down the Mass. Pike from Boston. We found Schofield, a powerfully built man with a kind, open face and prodigious hands, working on his invention, a prototype as yet driven only...
...Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first human beings to conquer Mount Everest--Chomolungma, to its people--at 29,028 ft. the highest place on earth. By any rational standards, this was no big deal. Aircraft had long before flown over the summit, and within a few decades literally hundreds of other people from many nations would climb Everest too. And what is particularly remarkable, anyway, about getting to the top of a mountain...