Thursday, August 20, 2009

Himalayas and its sorrounding countries


The Great Himalayas are sorrounded by three countries India ,china,Bhutan.These three countries have an easy access to the Mountains.

Lukla and its distance from Summit




Lukla
is a town in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal where most people visiting the Himalayas near Mount Everest start their journey. Lukla, at 2,860 metres (9,380 ft.), contains a small airport where most people begin and end their adventure in the region. Although Lukla means place with many goats and sheep, one is not likely to see many roaming around these days.

Lukla town is situated at a distance of 43.8 Kms from the summit of Mt.Everest.It is considered as a town with all sufficient facilities like clothes,lodges,travelling etc.

Airport

Lukla is served by Tenzing-Hillary Airport (Lukla Airport). There are frequent daily flights (i.e. no night service) between Lukla and Kathmandu, weather permitting. The tiny Cessna and Twin Otter aeroplanes which service the town offer some breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains. Lukla Airport has one of the steepest runways in the world, at the end of which is a drop to the valley below.

Tumlingtar and its location from Everest Summit


Tumlingtar is a region and a city, in Eastern Nepal, between Arun river and Sabha River in Kosi Zone. It is also the deepest valley and biggest Tar (Plain land near the hill) of Nepal. It is situated at 27.30 N, 87.20 E

Transport

As urbanization has been growing here, many people of the surrounding areas are attracted at it now a days. This is the south point from which the bus goes to the district headquarters regularly.

It is located around 93.2 Kms away from the central summit of Mt.Everest.

Planes regularly fly from Tumlingtar Airport to Biratnagar and Kathmandu. The airlines which fly their planes in Tumlingtar are Sita Air, Gorkha Airlines and Nepal Airlines. It is the only source to go to Makalu peak via airways.



Jiri Town in Nepal and Summit Of everest



Jiri (जिरी) is town in Dolakha District in the of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7138 people residing in 1508 individual households. Jiri lies at an altitude of 1,905 metres (6,250 feet) and is the eastern-most terminus of the highway coming from Kathmandu.Jiri is said to have established in 1938 by the Swiss. The name "Jiri" actually came from the city Zurich in Switzerland.As the closest roadhead, Jiri is now the trailhead for many treks into the Mount Everest region. The trek to Lukla will take seven or eight days. Few people actually begin a trek from Jiri anymore, as only 5% of all trekkers who attempt the difficult trek to Everest Base Camp start at Jiri. The other 95% choose to fly into the small airstrip at Lukla, thus cutting off a week of difficult but beautiful trekking.

From the central summit of Mt Everest it is approximately around 73.8 Kms away

Although the trailhead from Jiri into Sagarmatha National Park is referred to as the "classic route to Everest", the original trailhead actually began at Kathmandu. All early Everest expeditions—including the one led by John Hunt that put Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on the summit—passed through Jiri. So Jiri is also called the "Gateway to Mt. Everest".

Jiri is the home of an ethnic group called the Jirels.