The Adventure of All Adventures – Extreme Skydiving at the top of the world!

Everest Skydive takes you to the chilling heights of 29,500ft. First landing at the airstrip in Lukla, (Sherpa country and the Everest region) you begin your trek to Syangboche.

Following the Dudh Kosi River, you trek past Sherpa villages, gompas (monasteries) within the Sagarmatha National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site).

Syangboche, a Sherpa hamlet situated just above Namche Bazaar, is the site for the Everest Skydive event.  Upon reaching the hamlet, you will get ready to take the ‘World’s Highest Jump’ and land at 12,350 ft.

The highly qualified pilots will take you to a height of 29,500 ft in a Pilatus PC-6 Aircraft, which is equipped with a state-of-the-art oxygen system. Hurtling past some of the world’s tallest peaks in a few seconds of freefall (solo or tandem), the adrenaline rush will be something you have never experienced before a history in the making!

All through your adventure, you will be guided Everest Skydive Crew, which includes some of the world’s leading skydivers and mountaineering experts. Should you wish to further explore the magnificent region, in which you have just had this unique experience, you have the option to join our ten-day extension trek to Everest Base Camp.

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Most extreme zipline in the world, officially named Zip-Flyer Nepal is the world’s most tallest, fastest and the longest zipline in the world located in Sarangkot, Nepal. It’s not just another zipline; it’s inclined at 56 degree, 1.8 km in length, 2000ft vertical drop and speeds of over 160kmph making it the most extreme ride in the world.

Imagine, You’re standing on the platform overlooking the majestic Himalayas and a mind-boggling 2000 feet vertical drop. As you look down, the adrenaline begins to build up and your heart begins to beat faster. The countdown begins…5,4,3,2,1, and you’re airborne. Gravity takes care of the ‘go’ portion of the ride, a feeling of weightlessness sets in, the wind gushes against your face, as you plunge at speeds of over 160kmph. After a minute of pure adrenaline, and travelling a distance of almost 2km, the ride begins to slow down as you approach the landing. The advanced, magnetic braking system then brings you to a complete stop.

During the ride, you’ll get to experience the breath-taking views of the Himalaya range and the raging Seti river. Zip-Flyer by Highground Adventures Nepal is truly an experience not to be missed.

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Canyoning one of the new additions to Nepal’s extreme sports activity list, an amazing full body and mind experience that enables you to explore some of the most forbidden places in the Himalayas of Nepal. On your journey, you will be accompanied by our qualified guides who will train and guide you in a way of such unforgettable and exiting places. In the course of canyoning, you will make a journey though close passages of rock which has been contoured by ages of rushing water from the Himalayan snow melts. You will also traverse though the natural places like dense jungle, over deep pools and down rocky walls and water-falls. Canyoning is one of the ultimate extreme adventures that get you off the beaten track and such an opportunity should not be missed by an adventure seeker. It also allows you to explore some of Nepal’s most remote wilderness.

This unique type of sport includes going down canyons using a variety of techniques including walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling and swimming, etc. You will experience a different world by using your good navigational skills, rope work, swimming ability and a good level of fitness and upper body strength.

Generally, canyoning is carried-out in wet, mountain canyons with water flowing through them. Canyons that are considered to be good for canyoning, are cut into the bedrock stone, forming narrow slots with drops, beautiful sculptured walls and spectacular waterfalls. Many of the best canyons are generally cut into limestone, but many other common rock types include granite and sandstone. Canyons can be assumed to be quite easy or rather than considering as difficult. However emphasis should be given as the sport focusing on aesthetics and fun, rather than considering this as difficult venture. It should also be noted that significant water flow can make canyons very treacherous, and require special rope work techniques for safe travel.

Canyoning requires various items such as climbing hardware, static ropes, helmets and wetsuits.

In Nepal there are three places where you can go canyoning form; they are all based out of the last resort, so you have nice comfortable accommodation to return to at the end of your day. Our travel and trekking agency (WTN) can arrange for you anything form a day trip form Kathmandu to three days all inclusive canyoning package. Being at the last resort, it gives you the perfect chance to mix these activities with rafting and mountain bike riding or trekking while you are there.

Destinations for Canyoning:

The Panglang Khola
Panglang Khola is a unique pristine canyon very near to the Last Resort offering a challenging canyoning. This canyon provides opportunity for people to be prepared for the Kahaule Khola and other canyons with a lot of challenges. You’ll also learn how to control your descent as well as use all the canyoning gear we provide.  It is an ideal canyon for beginners.

The Kanglang Khola
The Kanglang Khola is one level up from Panglang. It introduces you to jumping and sliding besides spectacular abseils.  It also gives you the chance to develop and challenge your skills. The walk up to Kanglang Khola has beautiful views of the snow peaks on the Tibetan Plateau and the green Nepali valleys. In combination with Panglang Khola, Kanglang Khola it gives you a fun and diverse experience of your two days canyoning trips.

The Bhukuthe Khola
Nepal’s newest canyon is the limit of the technical and commercial canyoning. This spectacular high volume canyon has a lot of abseils including a phenomenal of 60 meter drop where you will have to lower yourself with the aid of your guide. A very scenic of 40 minute walk through fields and forest sand through a 10 minute walk, will back you to the Last resort that means you have one of the world’s most beautiful canyons right at your doorstep. This is a canyon which should not to be missed.

]]> http://waytonepal.com/nepal/canyoning/feed/ 1 http://waytonepal.com/nepal/visa-fee-exempt-for-mountaineers/ http://waytonepal.com/nepal/visa-fee-exempt-for-mountaineers/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 16:29:02 +0000 admin http://waytonepal.com/?p=1542 KATHMANDU: The government has exempted visa fee for the Everest and Dhaulagiri Summiteers for 2010 and 2011. The mountaineering fee has also been reduced by 50 per cent for Dhaulagiri climbers during the two years, on the occasion of Dhaulagiri golden jubilee celebration — on May 13 — and Sagarmatha day — on May 29.

Government is set to celebrate the third International Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) Day on May 29 with various programmes. The celebration is scheduled for two days — on May 28 and May 29. “We are hopeful that the celebration of Mt Everest Day will definitely help encourage Everest summiteers and promote Nepal Tourism Year 2011,” said Ranjan Krishna Aryal, secretary at Ministry of Tou-rism and Civil Aviation.

“The celebration is scheduled for May 28 and 29,” Aryal said adding that during the celebration Everest Summiteers from around the world will be invited for the Everest Summiteers Seminar that the ministry has planned. The ministry has also formed a special committee for the celebration of Sagarmatha Day that will be headed by minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Sarat Singh Bhandari.

According to Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) it has expected more than 250 Mt Everest summiteers — including renowned climbers like Chris Bonington, Peter Habelar, Apa Sherpa, Min Bahadur Serchan, Dawa Steven Sherpa, Bill Burke, David Liano to attend the programme.

The NMA has also requested the government to regard the summiteers as the Goodwill Ambassadors of Nepal to promote Nepal’s mountain tourism. Nepal has opened a total of 326 peaks for climbing. The higher 293 peaks are managed by Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation while the lower 33 peaks are managed by Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA).

This Spring Season, MoTCA has already issued permits to 80 Expedition Teams for climbing various higher peaks including Mt Everest and still few more teams are in the pipeline. Similarly, NMA has already issued permits to 358 climbing teams to scale 33 Peaks of NMA and many more teams are expected to arrive before the monsoon in June. In the year 2009, NMA had issued permit to 1210 climbing teams.

Mount Everest — also called Qomolangma Peak, Mount Sagarmatha, Chajamlangma (Limbu), Zhumulangma Peak or Mount Chomolangma — is the highest mountain in the world and the highest point on the earth’s continental crust, as measured by the height above sea level of its summit, 8,848 metres (29,029 ft). The mountain, which is a part of the Himalaya range in Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet, China. The highest mountain in the world attracts well-experienced mountaineers as well as novice climbers who are willing to pay substantial fees to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb. By the end of 2008, there had been 4,102 ascents to the summit by about 2,700 individuals. Climbers are a significant source of tourist revenue for Nepal.

This year too, we have organised a NIBL Heritage Marathon 2010, raising over Rs 7 million for the renovation of Bhai Deval Temple and Aryaghat at Pashupatinath.

What is more remarkable about this project is that while urbanites are playing blind to the mounting heaps of garbage in front of our eyes, the Sherpas have taken an initiative to clean their backyard.

Given the context that we rank among the most polluted cities, the project is laudable and exemplary and needs a global recognition. NIBL is very proud to be a partner in this noble cause sponsored by Investment Bank Limited and supported by Hulas Steel Industries Limited, Nepal Mountain Association, Surya Nepal, The Himalayan Times, Hotel Association Nepal, Everest Insurance, among others.

Various programmes are being organized to mark the beginning of the most famous and widely used New Year day among various calendars used in the country.

On the occasion, President Dr Ram Baran Yadav, Vice President Paramananda Jha, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, Ministers, and senior leaders of the political parties have wished for happiness, peace, prosperity, and progress of all the citizens.

Extending his best wishes to the people, President underlined the need to defeat the challenges facing the nation in order to draft the new constitution within the stipulated time.

He said unity and reconciliation is the only and unimpeachable way to resolve the problems.

In his new year message, Prime Minister called on every citizens to lend their support in taking the country to its scheduled destination.

“On the occasion, I would like to wish that the New Year brings happiness, prosperity, and brighter possibilities in our lives,” said PM Nepal in his message to the Nepali people.

Noting that the only one-and-half month is left to conclude the statute-drafting and the peace process, the prime minister pointed out the need for unity and a great sense of responsibility to accomplish the tasks confronting us.

Also today, Mothers’ Day is also being marked across the country today.

On this day, people revere their mother by offering various gifts and sweets.

The nine-day festival of Bisket Jatra, coinciding with the Nepali New year, began in Bhaktapur today. Two chariots are pulled during the festival of new year celebration that falls on April 14.

A 25 meter pole is put up and set into the stone yoni at Khalna Tole, one of the squares in Bhaktapur.

The festival has been immensely popular since the Lichhavi period. According to the legend, a man who married a princess died of snake bite in Bhaktapur.

Nobody dared to marry her for the fear of bad omen. However, one day, a merchant arrived in the village and tied the knot with the princess. But contrary to what was perceived, nothing happened to him, nor to his wife and both lived a happy life. The festival is celebrated to remember the defeat of demon.

Bisket Jatra is one of the most colourful celebrations in Bhaktapur.

]]> http://waytonepal.com/nepal/bisket-jatra/feed/ 0 http://waytonepal.com/nepal/youngest-person-to-summit-mt-everest/ http://waytonepal.com/nepal/youngest-person-to-summit-mt-everest/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:20:48 +0000 admin http://waytonepal.com/?p=1526 Thirteen-year-old Jordan Romero is climbing Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, not only for himself but to inspire more young people to get outdoors.

“Obese children are the future of America the way things are going,” he tells CNN in Kathmandu Friday as he prepared to leave for the mountain on Sunday.

“I am hoping to change that by doing what I do — climbing and motivational speaking. I want to motivate children and inspire them to get outdoors.”

If he is successful, Jordan will be the youngest person to get to the top of Everest’s summit, 29,028 feet above sea level.

With a smile he is quick to add, “I am doing this a little for myself too, to do something big.”

Shangri-La Groups operates Hotel Shangri-La in Kathmandu and Shangri-La Village Resort in Pokhara.

Prasiddha Bahadur Pandey, managing director of Hotel Shangri-La, said Star Management will take over the management of the hotel once the construction completes in 2012.

The construction of the yet-to-be-named hotel is going on in full swing at Linzhi in Tibet. The hotel is being constructed by Tibetan Tourism Corporation Limited (TTCL). Shangri-La Group had signed an agreement to manage the hotel in 2009. Shangri-La Group is the first Nepali company that has entered into an agreement to manage a five star hotel outside the country.

Talking with myrepublica.com, Pandey, who is also the president of Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN), said they have now reached to a level of competing with international hotel chains.

Shangri-La is expanding its horizons out of national boundary at a time when other Nepali companies are warming up to celebrate year-long tourism promotional campaign – Nepal Tourism Year (NTY) 2011.

“It is not that we are not preparing for NTY 2011. We will continue our preparation for the campaign even though we have already completed our internal expansion works,” Raju Shah, senior general manager of the hotel, told myrepublica.com.

But managing a hotel in the world´s third largest economy will not be a cakewalk for the group. They need to work very hard to upgrade their service quality. Shah said the group has already started preparation in that direction. “We will focus on trainings and producing quality manpower in a massive way,” Shah added.

The hotel is being constructed at an estimated cost of $10 to $12 million. The TTCL is also preparing to construct a deluxe resort with around 300 rooms.

Not only the project at Linzhi, Shah said other operational five star and small hotels in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, have also approached Star Management for management contract.

“We are keenly studying the performance of these hotels,” Shah, who is expected to look after the management of the hotel in Linzhi on behalf of the Star Management Pvt Ltd, told myrepublica.com.

He said the group was getting offers from across the border because of the sound management and quality service. “We were searching for new opportunities even during the period of conflict when the overall tourism business in the country was down,” he added.

Pandey said they were preparing to hire Nepali professionals in the top management in the hotel. “We might hire lower level employees locally. But I can assure you that Nepali professionals will man top managerial positions,” Pandey said. He further added that the industry should take inspiration from Shangri-La´s business expansion in the northern neighbor.

Nepal suffers a massive trade deficit with China. But the deficit can be reduced through such business to business interactions. Nepal had suffered trade deficit of Rs 30 billion with China in 2008/09, according to the Finance Ministry.

Source: myrepublica.com

With a team comprising of eleven people, Shah is attempting to climb Mt Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, for what he call his “mission for world peace”.

President Dr Ram Baran Yadav handed over the national flag of Nepal to Shah for his Everest expedition at Shital Niwas, the President’s office, amid a program today morning.

He wished Shah and his team good luck for the expedition titled “Everest Peace Expedition 2010″ and bid them farewell.

Similarly, Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Sharat Singh Bhandari also handed over the national flag of Nepal with the logo of Nepal Tourism Year 2011 to Shah and wished him success in his maiden attempt to climb Mt Everest.

Shah, who is also known as ‘world cyclist’, said he will take the flags of all 151 countries that he traveled to during the last 11 years to the top of the world and pray for lasting peace and harmony in the world.

His expedition team is expected to reach the Everest Base Camp in couple of days.

After getting a snub from Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal when he asked for government’s support for his expedition, Shah decided to sell off his belongings including his bicycle, souvenirs brought from various countries and the awards and certificates he has got to raise money for the expedition.