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34th NMA Day Celebrated- 1
November
Mr. Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Secretary
of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation hoisted the
flag of NMA in the premises on the occasion of 34th NMA Day. Mr.
Ghimire was the Chief Guest of the program. Mr. Deebas Bickram Shah,
General Secretary welcomed all the guest present in the program and
highlighted the background, objective and activities of NMA.
In the program, the Chief Guest awarded the Kumar Khadga Bikram Shah
Contribution Award 2006 and Dawa Norbu Mountaineering Tourism
Journalism Award 2006 to retired Col Mr. Madan Kumar K.C and Mr.
Kedar Man Singh Shrestha respectively.
Mr. K.C. was involved in the rescue activities of the mountaineers
for many years and had also set the record for flying a helicopter
in the highest altitude in 1986 during the rescue of American
Expedition on Mt. Everest.
Mr. Singh, a highly reputed Senior Tourism based writer was actively
involved in the promotion of Mountain Tourism through the print
media for many years and on the occasion of Golden Jubilee
Celebration of Mt. Everest, Cho-oyo, Mt. Makalu and Mt. Kanchenjunga.
Both the award receivers expressed their gratitude towards NMA and
committed their active involvement in their respective sectors to
further strengthen our role towards Nepal.
The Chief Guest also awarded letter of appreciation and a cash prize
of Rs. 10,000.00 (Ten thousand) to 16 rescuers who were involved in
the rescue of Shree Airlines, which crashed on 23 September 2006 at
Ghunsa, Taplezung.
In his speech, the Chief Guest highlighted the activities of NMA for
their contribution towards the Mountain, Mountaineering and the
Mountain environment. He also expressed gratitude for the
cooperation extended by NMA in the rescue operation of Shree
Airlines Helicopter.
In the closing remarks, NMA President Mr. Ang Tshering Sherpa,
thanked the Chief Guests and other guest for their presence in the
celebration of 34th Anniversary of NMA and making it a grand
success.
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Hoisting of NMA Flag
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Loosing the pigeons |
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Retd. Colonel Madan K.C. |
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Journalist Mr. Kedar Man Singh |
Nepal-Japan Friendship Golden Jubilee
Expedition, Nangpai Gosum, (7321mtr) - November 2006
NMA organized a felicitation program on 1 November in honor of
the participants of Nepal-Japan Friendship Golden Jubilee
Expedition, Nangpai Gosum (7321mtr) - 2006 which was organized on
the occasion of the 50th year of diplomatic relation between Nepal
and Japan and the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Mt. Manaslu. The
expedition members summitted on 26 October at 11:00 am
The Chief Guest Hon'ble Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil
Aviation Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gyawali inaugurated the program and
handed over certificate to the participants of the expedition.
Mr. Da Gombu Sherpa, Nepalese Expedition Team Leader expressed his
happiness to be a part of this historic expedition and hoped to
strengthen the relation between Nepal and other countries by
organizing such type of expeditions. Mr. Kazuyoshi KONDO- Japanese
Expedition Team Leader also expressed his happiness to be included
in this historical expedition and highly appreciated the skills and
cooperation of the Nepalese members during expedition. Japanese
Ambassador H.E. Tsutomu Hiraoka, in his remarks, said that this type
of expedition will certainly play a great role in further enhancing
the relationship between Nepal and Japan.
The Chief Guest, Hon'ble Minister highly appreciated the role of NMA
as the implementing agency for Nepal in organizing this type of
successful historic event, which will definitely help people to
understand the diplomatic relation between Nepal and Japan in people
to people level. He assured the cooperation from the ministry to NMA
in promoting every mountain tourism promotional activities.
NMA President Mr. Ang Tshering Sherpa, in his vote of thanks, said
that the expedition is also a step forward to enhance and strengthen
the friendship and a tool for promoting tourism between the two
nations for the new millennium. He also thanked the Government of
Japan and the Japan Workers' Alpine Federation for taking
initiatives to organize such expedition. Furthermore, he also showed
appreciation to Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation for
their support and trust they have shown in conducting this historic
expedition. Simultaneously, he requested the Ministry of Culture,
Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) to initiate necessary steps to
prevent the sad incident which took place during the expedition. He
assured the ministry that as a technical wing of the ministry, NMA
is always ready to shoulder the responsibility of carrying out
precautionary measures in the mountaineering field and to prevent
further such incident taking place.
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Chief Guest with the
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Taiwanese Corner at International Mountain Museum (IMM)- 8 November
Yung-ho Alpine Association of Taiwan
informed that the association will establish a Taiwanese Corner at
the International Mountain Museum, Pokhara. The corner will exhibit
the mountaineering activities of Taiwan. The section will be
inaugurated on 15 December 2006.
Central Secretariat Meeting - 14 November
The Central Secretariat Meeting on 14
November approved of the proposal of Mr. Colin Philip Smith
regarding the display of Butterflies & Moths from the Mountains of
the Himalaya at IMM.
The
meeting also decided to provide a sum of twenty five thousand rupees
to the Restaurant & Bar Association of Nepal to organize 8th Pokhara
Street Festival-" Destination Paradise" from 28 December 2006- 1
January 2007.
Central Executive Board Meeting- 14 November 2006
The Central Executive Board Meeting
decided to donate Rs. 50,000.00 for Kathmandu Int'l Mountain Film
Festival which is going to be held from 7-10 Dec 2006 in Kathmandu.
The
meeting also decided to register the newly amended statute of NMA at
Central District Office.
Himalayan Host Countries Meet 2006- 14 November 2006
Himalayan Host Countries Meet 2006 is going to be held in Kathmandu
on 13 December 2006. Nepal, China, Pakistan and India are the member
countries.
Altitude Medicine Training- 15 November 2006
Introductory Extreme Altitude Medical Training was organized from
15-19 November 2006 at Khunde, Khumbu. Jointly organized by NMA and
Wilderness Medical Associates, USA. NMA advisor Mr. Apa Sherpa
played an active role for the training.
Visit of Japanese Mayor to IMM- 15 November
Mayor of Komagane City, Japan Mr. Nakahara
Masazumi, Chairman Komagane City Council Mr. Kita Zawa and Director
General of JICA Komagane Mr. Takashi Kato visited IMM on 15 November
2006. During their visit, they requested Pokhara Municipality- the
Sister City of Komagane City to send the proposal for the future
development program of IMM.
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Members of Komagane City in IMM |
Letter of Appreciation distributed -21 November 2006
Members of WWF distributed Letter of Appreciation at NMA
premises to the 16 rescuers involved in the rescue operation of the
helicopter crashed on 23 September 2006.
Congratulation-25 November 2006
In the AGM of International Federation of Mountain Guide
Association that took place on 25 November 2006 in Greece has
accepted our Nepal National Mountain Guide Association (NNMGA)
headed by Mr. Sunar Gurung (Aspirant Guide) as a member UIAGM.
NMA congratulated all the members of NNMGA for their international
affiliation and wishes them a very bright future.
Mrs. Hashimoto's visit to IMM-25 November 2006
Mrs. Kuniko Hashimoto- wife of former Japanese Prime Minister
Ryutaro Hashimoto and well wisher of NMA visited the International
Mountain Museum on 25 November 2006. The IInd Vice President and the
Convener-International Mountain Museum Committee Mr. Bhumi Lal Lama
welcomed her as she arrived with her son Mr. Roy and other Japanese
Guests. She was highly impressed with the scale of construction of
the museum and assured her cooperation for the further development
of the museum.
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IMM Committee
Convener welcoming Mrs. Hashimoto |
Mrs. Hashimoto
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Press Meet- 28 November 2006
A press meet was organized on 28 November 2006 at Nepal
Tourism Board to inform about the upcoming Himalaya Tourism
Conference 2006. This conference which was originally
planned to be held on 5 June 2006 on the World Environment
Day 2006 by the joint effort of then HMG, MoCTCA, NTB, WWF
Nepal, ICIMOD, KMTNC, TMI, HET Nepal and NMA was postponed
due to the political scenario. Now, with a great effort in
this new Nepal it has been finally taken its final shape and
the conference will be held on World Mountain Day 11-12 Dec
2006.
This conference will hold 7 Business Sessions in various
topics related to Tourism, Mountaineering, Mountain
Environment and Biodiversity and will be presided by
distinguished individuals in various field. The purpose of
the conference is to gather all the subject based related
institutions currently operating in Nepal so that they can
evaluate and promote structural based policies in tourism
environment and the Himalayan communities. There are 9
institutions as organizers and 39 institutions as supporters
which are all related to tourism and environment directly.
Mr. Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Secretary, Ministry of Culture
was the Chief Guest for the press conference. He mentioned
the objective behind organizing such type of important
conferences are to revive and promote post conflict mountain
tourism in the near future and to reduce impact of tourism
on the himalayan environment for years to come and to
promote equitable sharing of tourism benefit to the local
community.
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Introduction of Mountaineering Gears
This
is regular column of e-News to introduce mountain gears to the
readers.
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Resuce Eight:
A Rescue eight is a simple gaget, also called Fig 8
shaped with ears or wings which prevent the rope from
locking up or creating a knopt. It is frequently made of
steel, rather than aluminium. | |
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