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...expedition's 75 pieces of luggage. Success has made the group jubilant. This airport lounge has become the mountaineering equivalent of a winning Super Bowl locker room. As they sit amid their luggage, holding Carlsberg beers, they frequently raise a toast. "Shez! Shez!" shouts a climber. That's Nepali for drink! drink! "No epics," a climber chimes in, citing what really matters: no one died...
...city became increasingly dangerous. Getting Weihenmayer's story became a little more problematic. "At one point I was walking down the street past the palace with Erik when a riot broke out," says Greenfeld. "Erik with his cane and I had to run from these angry, shaven-headed Nepali youth and the police who were chasing them...
...expedition's 75 pieces of luggage. Success has made the group jubilant. This airport lounge has become the mountaineering equivalent of a winning Super Bowl locker room. As they sit amid their luggage, holding Carlsberg beers, they frequently raise a toast. "Shez! Shez!" shouts a climber. That's Nepali for drink! drink! "No epics," a climber chimes in, citing what really matters: no one died...
Devika is one of thousands of Nepali women who endure social injustice and discrimination, most of it sanctified by religion?and ignored by law. This Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas is a man's world, and it seems determined to stay that way. A two-year attempt to change the civil code and go some way toward putting women on an equal footing with men has been bogged down in the national assembly for more than a month by opposition protests against government corruption and, along with other legislation, is unlikely to be passed. This, despite extensive debate over four...
Opponents of change base their case on tradition. Constitutional lawyer Ganesh Raj Sharma, who is advising the Nepali government, says any amendment would be disastrous. "Look what happened in India," he says. "Hindu women have been given full inheritance rights and now husbands and in-laws are killing wives to get their share of the family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari...