FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

HIMALAYAN LOVE STORY (Satis Shroff) Andrea Zimmermann, a young, blonde Swiss lady and Nepalese fiancee Norbu Sherpa wanted to climb the Chomolungma, as Everest is called by the Buddhists in Nepal and Tibet. Suddenly the earth moved. The two love each other since 2011 and are also rather business-minded. They run a trekking-agency in Nepal and Switzerland. This April there were underway to Everest when the earthquake began rumbling. Andrea and Norbu were in the Sagarmatha area, when the earth began to move. They were only three kilometres away from the eipcentre, near Sindhupalchowk and Gorka. What did they do? The ran to a small village in the vicinity. Everyone in the village was in panic and the people, both Nepalese and foreigners ran out of the houses. As the buildings came tumbling down many people were injured and dead. A woman even gave birth to a child that night. Although they have a house in Kathmandu, Andrea and Norbu live in...

Oh, LANGTANG (Satis Shroff) Langtang Valley can be reached from Kathmandu by traversing along the Trisuli river valley and further to small picturesque Nepalese hamlets such as: Betrawati, Dharapani, Ramche, Thare, Bokejhung, Bhrugu, Munga and finally Syabrubensi, for where the Langtang Valley begins. Most of the trekkers head for the village of Langtang, which lies at an elevation of 3,500m, and another village is Kyanjing (3,850m). These two villages lie in a wide arid valley, and has woodland and meadows: a trekker's paradise. Ghopte Gosainkunda Lake, Lauribinayak Pass Shin Gomba (monastery) But at the moment the beautiful Valley and town of Langtang lies under 10,000 tonnes of snow, earth and stones that have rolled down. 'Langtang Valley is no longer what it was and doesn't exist,' according to Tulsi Prasad Gautam, chief of tourism in Kathmandu. In the middle of the valley lay the village of Langtang. ...