Word: nepal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every morning last week a knot of sturdy Britons, surrounded by gawping Hindu hillmen, watched a snorting little Puss Moth skitter off the field at Purnea, near the Nepal border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...
...earth's crust. With trembling hand, Correspondent Frank S. Smythe of the London and New York Times pecked out the story on his typewriter in a tent 20,000 ft. up on Kanchenjunga, No. 3 peak (28,146 ft.) of the Himalaya range between India and Nepal, which is being essayed this season by a party under Geologist Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth of Zurich (TIME...
Along in 1928 the good news finally trickled down from the World's Roof that His Majesty had freed Nepal's slaves back...
Again last week the gutters of the Himalayas ran news. Sometime ago- goodness knew when-and for some reason or other-goodness knew what-an army of 60,000 sturdy soldiers marched from Nepal and were last week ominously approaching Lhasa, famed "Forbidden City," capital of that remote pope the Grand Dalai Lama of Tibet...
Possibly the trouble is that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...