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Nepal’s Department of Tourism is determined to enlarge its list of 8,000m peaks by adding six secondary summits on Kangchenjunga and Lhotse. However, this will not change international criteria or mountaineering history around the 14 highest peaks on Earth.
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Like it or Not, There Are Still Only Eight 8,000m Peaks in Nepal » Explorersweb
Nepal's Department of Tourism is determined to enlarge its list of 8,000m peaks by adding six secondary summits on Kangchenjunga and Lhotse.
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February 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Nepal’s Department of Tourism is determined to enlarge its list of 8,000m peaks by adding six secondary summits on Kangchenjunga and Lhotse. However, this will not change international criteria or mountaineering history around the 14 highest peaks on Earth.
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THEY DOXXED EA-NĀṢIR
Ea-nāṣir lived in n. 1 Old Street (this is a modern name completely fabricated by Sir Leonard Wooley, the excavator at the time) of area AH. This home was finely built and stood with an area of 110 m2, an average home in this neighborhood being about 70 m2.
November 23, 2024 at 7:26 PM
THEY DOXXED EA-NĀṢIR
A Nepali honey hunter. Photograph by Eric Valli.
November 27, 2024 at 5:54 AM
A Nepali honey hunter. Photograph by Eric Valli.
Panar Bugyal, India. Photographed by Praveen Purohit.
November 17, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Panar Bugyal, India. Photographed by Praveen Purohit.
Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.
November 16, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Somewhere in Upper Mustang, Nepal. Photographed by J.F. Meyer.
The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.
November 14, 2024 at 10:16 AM
The mountain Ama Dablam, with mani stones in the foreground.
'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.
November 13, 2024 at 8:53 AM
'Nan Shan, Tibetan Frontier', Nicholas Roerich, 1936.
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Every time I see stories of Tasmanian tiger’s revival these days, I can’t stop thinking of this haunting movie called The Hunter where a brooding Willem Defoe is tasked to find the last Tasmanian tiger’s DNA by a military biotech company. Highly recommend watching it, gripping and poignant!
October 29, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Every time I see stories of Tasmanian tiger’s revival these days, I can’t stop thinking of this haunting movie called The Hunter where a brooding Willem Defoe is tasked to find the last Tasmanian tiger’s DNA by a military biotech company. Highly recommend watching it, gripping and poignant!
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"Why kick the cat?" - @brewster.kahle.org, speaking to Daniel Wu of the Washington Post about the attacks against the Internet Archive ➡️ wapo.st/4f998w2
The world’s largest internet archive is under siege — and fighting back
Hackers struck the Internet Archive, leaking millions of users’s data and causing founder Brewster Kahle to take a sprawling library of online history offline.
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October 18, 2024 at 5:14 PM
"Why kick the cat?" - @brewster.kahle.org, speaking to Daniel Wu of the Washington Post about the attacks against the Internet Archive ➡️ wapo.st/4f998w2
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Nicholas Roerich, 'Patrol of Himalayas'
November 11, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Nicholas Roerich, 'Patrol of Himalayas'
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戦史ファン御用達のOsprey社は、本当に「よくそこを！」という本を出すけど、これもその一冊。「Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan」、チベット仏教の広がりを受けヒマラヤにどんな城、要塞が作られたかという内容。買ってしまった。
August 21, 2024 at 12:36 AM
戦史ファン御用達のOsprey社は、本当に「よくそこを！」という本を出すけど、これもその一冊。「Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan」、チベット仏教の広がりを受けヒマラヤにどんな城、要塞が作られたかという内容。買ってしまった。