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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By katclay | Views [365] | Scholarship Entry
One month before I saw Sagarmatha, my grandfather died. But the mother of the universe revealed nothing as I stared her in the eye, standing silently as an obsidian pyramid beside the dominating peak of Lhotse. She had nothing to say on that question ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By akshyahnaidu | Views [223] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day that I stood above all mankind. It was seven a.m. and the Nepalese skies were grey, moist and clear. We had hired a jeep to drop us at the foothills of the seemingly impenetrable hill of Sarangkot in the beautiful, mountainous ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By jussihop | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
One day skipping lessons is a 100 gram kettlebell to the making-your-life-wrong side of scales. Once it was overweight at that side of mine, so being relieved from uni means that your freaky life is going down to valhalla without any signs of understanding ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By suvpradhan | Views [231] | Scholarship Entry
I searched the room frantically, turning over the sleeping bags and the mats, praying to all the gods I knew. “No, it’s not here” I told my friends. “Dhanga maruni” they claimed, saying that I was careless. This was the ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By hannyhan | Views [253] | Scholarship Entry
Humbled Prayer flags, birds, forests, waterfalls, animals, people. I take pictures of anything. I playfully spin the prayer wheel that is placed on the side of the trail. Everybody else is doing it, so it must mean something. I feel the culture seeping ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By lilaniprinsen | Views [182] | Scholarship Entry
After 20 hours we finally arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal. At the hotel, my family and I waited around, our jet lagged bodies wrapped around hotel chairs when a small, kind eyed man walked through the door. His smile lit up the whole lobby - “Herro, I Pasang” ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By anjalin | Views [290] | Scholarship Entry
Next week was Shivratri, a festival most awaited by pilgrims and nagas from across the country and Nepal’s neighbours. I entered the Pashupatinath gate and saw nagas everywhere. On the steps, temple walls, across the hill; they were here already! Naga ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By melindasees | Views [218] | Scholarship Entry
Walk. Walk. Stop. Walk. Walk. Stop. Touch. Ouch. There is no path. We have to make our own. We aren't welcomed, we can feel it. The plants are trying to tell us to go back. Needles are everywhere, touching us, harassing us. Walk. Walk. Stop. Walk.... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By escapade | Views [287] | Scholarship Entry
I am sore. I have not showered in 9 days. My back is aching from the burden of a 14kg pack strapped around my shoulders and waist. Due to the lack of moisture in the air they have now cracked and every step I take widens the splits along my feet. But ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By albagil | Views [332] | Scholarship Entry
After kilometres of rice fields, dirty faces and children playing, I get to Jangchub Choeling Monastery. The electric colours of the entrance welcome a traveller who will try to understand more than 50 years of exile just in half an hour. I barely go ... Read more >
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Mon, 12 May 2014 | By nepal123 | Views [242] | Scholarship Entry
A place like heaven; Pokhara, Nepal Since I way away from my home country Nepal for many years, many of my foreign friends had asked me about mountains and Himalayas of Nepal. But, I did not have the solid answer that how it would look like. But as soon ... Read more >
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Mon, 12 May 2014 | By journeyintotheunknown | Views [171] | Scholarship Entry
This journey started one cold Saturday in January. (There is only one bus per day that goes to this village). I met one girl from Russia, who was going to go and volunteer at the same project. We took a short taxi ride to the buspark. The taxi was white ... Read more >
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Sun, 11 May 2014 | By sankalpa | Views [230] | Scholarship Entry
My day had begun early, too early. I was up before dawn. I had indulged in a filling breakfast of hot noodle soup, packed my bag, settled my bill and filled my water bottle with boiling water. I was all set to begin the ultimate day of my trek where i ... Read more >
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Sat, 10 May 2014 | By dblatt | Views [356]
Healthcare in Nepal is by most western standards, rudimentary. It also seems as though, at least in this village of Bhaunne, to be a fairly novel establiishment. The reason I say this, is that most of the patients we have seen think that there is a definite ... Read more >
Thu, 8 May 2014 | By saritafae | Views [240] | Scholarship Entry
Roaming cows are snacking on storefront decorations as children softly sing on their way to school. The vendors are out stacking their displays of fruits and knickknacks and small rickshaws (tuk tuks) briefly stop on their routes. These are the daily ... Read more >
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