Word: wangyal
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...chatter in French, English and Hindi. A TV crew is setting up in acorner, but the contestants, weary from the media attention, have retreated to their rooms. It's only an hour before the start of the swimsuit round, and it's raining. "Oh, my poor girls," laments Lobsang Wangyal,producer of the Shambala Miss Tibetbeauty pageant. "They are going to freeze." Wangyal stops to bark a question at one ofhis assistants: "How are we doing on the judges?" Moments later a mobile phone rings. "We got the princess!" shouts hisassistant, who has taken a few days off work...
...were flown in to Zurich two months ago by chartered plane. Their Unterwasser home has an elevation of 3,000 ft., only about one-fourth that of Tibet, but Switzerland lies 15° north of their Asian homeland and the climatic conditions are much the same. Explains Lama Wangyal about the extraordinary transplant: "The mountains make us happy. We do not have forests, and our houses are built of stone, not wood. But this is also a country of snow, cheese and milk...