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Nepal
Definition
Nepal, small country by its surface (140000 km2) is surrounded of two "giants" of Asia, China and India
Description
The Nepal whose population is estimated at 26 million inhabitants, can pride itself to be that which holds on its territory the highest mountains of the sphere. Everest (8848m) that the Nepalese calls Sagar Matha or "face of the sky" and Annapurna (8091) that the team carried out by Maurice Herzog reached for the 1st time in 1950, form part of the eight major tops of the world located out of Nepalese ground. This country of deep rurality consists of a myriad of ethnos groups, an about sixty approximately, whose traditions, habits and ways of life hardly changed centuries since. With the crossroads of the road of silk and salt, this country reveals us these impressive contrasts of landscapes of high altitudes and low valleys in which the inhabitants base themselves whose poverty has equal only their authentic smell of hospitality. The religion hindouist, majority, côtoie Buddhism come from Tibet near close. The chain of the Himalayas, "remains snows" made this Nepal, "country with the foot of the mountains", the paradise of the mountaineers of the whole world and recently, that of the trekkeurs of all nationalities which give each other appointment in the capital, Katmandou, before leaving to the conquest the mythical tops on the majestic slopes these giants whom the sherpas know so well, faithful and devoted carrying the amateurs of Trekking and alpinism.ts lake Léman live of this true natural water tower which feeds also the Rhone. In clear weather, the king of the Alps offers a majestic sight on the Jura to us, Puys of the Central Solid mass and the Vosges.
Author
Anwar Hossain
Author Email
anwtele@yahoo.com
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