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Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Farmland on the lower slopes of the Himalayas (altitude 2900 metres). In the late 1980s, food grains contributed 76% of total crop production but production of milk, meat and fruit had not reached a point where nutritionally balanced food was available to most people. Staples (potatoes, barley, wheat) were occasionally augmented by green vegetables in the monsoon season (June-October), yak cheese and milk which was not consumed in large quantities, and fruit which was rare and expensive.
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Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
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Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Sherpa with young yak. The economic emphasis of the Khumbu is on animal husbandry, and the breeding and tending of yaks and cattle was an important occupation when this photograph was taken. Yaks command a good price. On walled, flat terraces, Sherpas cultivate their staple diet of potatoes, barley, buckwheat, and in lower areas, rice. In this picture, taken at altitude 2900 metres, the land sustains the commercial cultivation of medicinal herbs although increases in production are limited by environmental degradation, largely through soil erosion.
Carole Reeves- Archives and manuscripts
Nepal
Date: Aug 1966-May 1987Reference: PP/RRM/A.5/48Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)- Digital Images
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Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
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Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, children of Bhaktapur, 1986. Three children stand in Durbar Square. The little boy has genu valgum (knock knees). In the mid-1980s, nearly half of all Nepalese children died before reaching the age of 5, and life expectancy at birth was 51 years for men and 50 years for women. Conditions associated with poor hygiene and sanitation, including gastrointestinal disorders, diarrhoea, and parasitic infestation, were common.
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Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.
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Whiteness in engineering : tracing technology, masculinity, and race in Nepal's development / Janwillem Liebrand ; with a foreword by Dipak Gyawali.
Liebrand, Janwillem, 1972-Date: [2022]- Digital Images
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Nepal; foot transport in the Khumbu, 1986. A young Sherpa takes a 'breather' by resting his load on a walking staff. Sherpas carry enormously heavy loads on their backs and many of the raw materials and goods which move through the Khumbu are transported in this way. The tree on the right of the picture is a Rhododendron aboreum which grows to fifteen metres and bears the national flower of Nepal. Photographed near Lukla (altitude 28287 metres).
Carole Reeves- Books
The dynamics of health in Nepal / edited by Sharada Prasad Wasti, Padam Simkhada, Edwin van Teijlingen.
Date: 2015- Books
Buddhist monasteries of Nepal : a survey of the bāhās and bahīs of the Kathmandu Valley / by John K. Locke ; photographs by Hugh R. Downs.
Locke, John K. (John Kerr), 1933-2009.Date: 1985- Archives and manuscripts
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Projects in Nepal, 1987
Date: 1987Reference: SA/POP/C/1/9/6Part of: Population Concern- Archives and manuscripts
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Projects in Nepal, 1991
Date: 1991Reference: SA/POP/C/1/14/6Part of: Population Concern- Archives and manuscripts
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Projects in Nepal, 1988
Date: 1988-1995Reference: SA/POP/C/1/10/6Part of: Population Concern- Archives and manuscripts
Sites: Overseas (Nepal; New Zealand)
Date: c.1980- c.1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/S21Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Ancient and medieval Nepal / Rishikesh Shaha.
Shaha, Rishikesh.Date: 1992- Books
Brahmins of Nepal / Prakash A. Raj.
Raj, Prakash A.Date: 1996- Books
People of Nepal / Dor Bahadur Bista.
Bista, Dor Bahadur.Date: 1987- Archives and manuscripts
Peptic Ulcer Survey. Questionnaires filled in by hospitals: Nepal
Date: 1974-1975Reference: WTI/DPB/C/2/4/3Part of: Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993)- Books
The arts of Nepal / by Pratapaditya Pal.
Pal, Pratapaditya.Date: 1974-- Books
Surgeon in Nepal / Peter Pitt.
Pitt, Peter Clive Crawford.Date: 1970- Books
A concordance of H.P. Śāstri's catalogue of the Durbar Library and the microfilms of the Nepal-German manuscript preservation project / Reinhold Grünendahl. A catalogue of palm-leaf and selected paper mss. belonging to the Durbar Library Nepal, vol. I and II / Hara Prasād Śāstri.
Grünendahl, Reinhold.Date: 1989- Digital Images
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Gaurisankar or Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal
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Nepal; fruit seller in Kathmandu, 1986
Carole Reeves- Archives and manuscripts
Peptic Ulcer Survey: Nigeria, Bangladesh, Nepal
Date: 1972-1975Reference: WTI/DPB/C/3/3Part of: Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993)