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...This time Khadka was not crying wolf. Just after midnight on Feb. 17, an army of at least 2,000 of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas?up to half of the core group of armed rebels?fell on Mangalsen from the surrounding Himalayan hills. Their rockets cut through the walls of government offices and police stations, while mortars whistled overhead. After forcing residents into the open, the guerrillas blew buildings apart. They ransacked the bank, making off with $263,000, and freed 16 comrades from the Mangalsen jail while more troops overran Sanfebagar airport 20 km away...
...rebels' increasing savagery that has struck terror across the Himalayan kingdom. One 32-year-old subsistence farmer from western Nepal was singled out for a random nighttime attack three months ago. "We heard a group of women chanting in the dark 'Long Live the Maoist Party of Nepal,'" says the man in a hospital in Kathmandu. "They rushed in. They were all dressed in white, all with short hair, the youngest about 15 and the oldest no more than 22. They took me out on the porch where they bound my hands behind my back and tied my legs together...
...Emergency legislation for another 90 days. The horror of the attacks in Western Nepal (see story) contributed immensely to the bill's success, but its passage showed that Deuba may be learning how to finally unify Nepal's fractious politicians?a unity that has proved elusive in the Himalayan nation's 12 years of multi-party democracy...
Hilton professed that Shangri-la is not on any map, but that hasn't stopped numerous countries?Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim and Bhutan, among others?from claiming to harbor the verdant Himalayan valley in the shadow of a glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve...
...book is most intriguing when chronicling the struggles of the early Sherpa climbers, who fought not only their own physical limitations but also cultural and religious barriers. From the beginning of Himalayan expeditions, Westerners viewed Sherpas as strong and faithful load carriers, the backbone to any climb, but not as true summit contenders. For their part, says Tenzing, Sherpas were bewildered by Westerners' "fascination with these high, cold, dangerous places where the gods lived and men should not venture." Buddhist lamas, consulted before Englishman George Mallory's 1924 Everest expedition, told the Sherpas not to set foot on the summit...