Political and Seismic Instability

April 2007

April 18, 2007

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  • Protected: Don’t forget to be scared April 18, 2007
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  • Unknown unknowns or postulated maybe knowns March 27, 2007
    Scientists suggested that certain hypothetical properties of space-time, predicted by certain “theories of everything” and thought to be undetectable by currently achievable experimental means, might have already influenced experiments, but without anyone noticing. —Harpers, December 2006 pg 96
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  • Protected: The Madheshi Andolan (Political Uprisings in the South) February 28, 2007
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  • Shortages February 28, 2007
    It is typical in the winter, the dry season, for there to be water shortages. People are used to having to adjust their lives accordingly. Yet these days there are a number of other shortages that are making daily life more challenging. Due to there being no winter rain, an alleged thirty percent increase [...]
    amandasnellinger
  • Jomsom trek (part six): January 31, 2007
    In the morning we travel in wild-looking high valley country where thick pine forests cluster on the flats along cliff edges undercut by the river. The snow-ribboned flanks of Nilghiri and Tukuche Peak rise above, and the turquoise Kali Gandaki winds far below in a maze of earth. It’s a wonder how much stone the [...]
    Jon
  • Jomsom trek (part five): Tatopani to Ghasa January 17, 2007
    In the morning breakfast takes a while. Sean and I are wobbling around and creaking. I eye the pastries in the hotel window, then decide on yogurt, for the protein, and muesli. In the street I buy wool fingerless gloves with a fold-over cap that turns them into mittens. I need something to cover my [...]
    Jon
  • Kathmandu in January January 17, 2007
    The weather has been cold. The marble in the house holds it in. The rooms are like meat lockers. The smoke and dust of the city hang in the air day after day with no rain to clear it for a month now. The smoke is from cars and motorcycles burning gasoline and motor oil [...]
    Jon
  • Jomsom trek (part four): Poon Hill Sunrise, too much downhill, hot springs December 29, 2006
    Before dawn Sean’s watch beeps. The room is cold, I’m warm. I really don’t want to get out of my sleeping bag. But I peek out the window again at the mountains and shuck off my sleeping bag. My boots are cold and stiff and my feet are reluctant to go in. Krishna is in the [...]
    Jon
  • Jomsom trek (part three): Roads, Tikhedunga, a problem with the hired guide requirement, Ghorepani December 27, 2006
    We cross a footbridge to where Nepal’s other government’s officials have their checkpost. Below us turquoise water tumbles in a ravine and bright red and yellow and purple flowers grow in the rocks. Krishna shows our ACAP and TRC permits while we wonder how many checkposts there are per mile on this trail. But soon [...]
    Jon
  • Protected: Jomsom trek (part two): Maoists! December 24, 2006
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    Jon