Nepal - Killing it in काठमांडौ

Hey! Whatcha doin'? Just wishing you had a remote control car in your office so you could run it into your coworkers' Achilles tendons and chase them away? Yeah, us, too. It would be a little more subtle than a flame-thrower...

How'd you like that Jordan station? We've had better Arab stations, but that one wasn’t bad. Ellen liked the variety of the quality of the music. Some was really horrid and some was really amazing.

Anyway, what do you say we head off for Nepal? 

Nepal is the only country in the world to currently have a flag that is NOT a rectangle. Wouldn't flags be cooler if they couldn't be rectangle shaped? Imagine the possibilities!

Triangles! How novel!

Aside from being the birthplace of the Buddha, Nepal is best known in the states for housing Mt. Everest, or at least half of it. Everest straddles Nepal's north western border with it's other half residing in Tibet - uh, we mean China. Tibet doesn't exist or something like that. It is Everest and all if it's 29,029 ft that keeps Nepal's large tourism industry going. 

Today's station come to us from the capital city of Kathmandu (काठमांडौ), which is also most traveler's first stop in Nepal. After getting acclimated to the 4,500 ft elevation, climbers stock up on supplies, find a sherpa, update their Facebook status one last time, spin the prayer wheels at monkey temple of Swayambhunath (स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप) for good luck, and start their journey to Everest. Fingers crossed they make it back.

We'd like to buy a vowel.

Don't forget to bring down all your trash with you after you climb Everest! The mountain has been dubbed the world's highest trash dump - with 120 tons of trash and 120 dead bodies. Yikes! We bet your local dump isn't quite that bad off, especially in the dead bodies department.

Changing the subject slightly, we were bummed to learn that the search for Chhewang Nima, a Nepalese sherpa who went missing during an avalanche while scaling Mt Baruntse, was called off yesterday. He had lead over 19 expeditions in his life time. For our lazy asses, completing even one expedition seems like the accomplishment of a life time. We have much respect for Chhewang Nima Sherpa.


You know, for a nation with so few internet connections (only a few hundred thousand for 30 million people), they have an incredible array of web-accessible radio stations! It's a veritable buffet! A bunch of them were news or global pop stations, but still. Seems like the music on this one is pretty good, and though there are a lot of breaks, the commercials aren't too bad and the news is in English, which is interesting to hear.


So, with out further ado, it's music time!

Radio Mirmire

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