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ergophobe

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Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« on: February 04, 2019, 05:24:37 PM »
To make you sick so they can bilk you out of money with an elaborate helicopter rescue scheme.

It's also why your travel/rescue insurance might not work in Nepal anymore

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/asia/nepal-everest-insurers-fraud.html
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Re: Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2019, 05:43:49 PM »
Perhaps related

Didn't I read that the government was going to reduce the number of tourists allowed to climb annually?
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Re: Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2019, 06:49:26 PM »
My family has been helping to support a school in Nepal for about ten years.  Outside of the tourist zone the country is so poor that it takes very little to make an impact with US dollars -- not that we've done enough to get them everything the need. 
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Re: Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2019, 08:51:30 PM »
That is great LM
What they NEED is to learn English so they can become Sherpas.
My son and granddaughter spent two weeks teaching in a monistary school above 12,000 feet in Nepal and then went on to the EBC.
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Re: Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2019, 07:19:59 PM »
>didn't I read

China: No Permit, No Trip to Everest Base Camp
http://www.newser.com/story/271372/china-no-permit-no-trip-to-everest-base-camp.html


TL;DR: Nasty Hobbitses
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Re: Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2019, 07:26:46 PM »
MM, your son looks a lot like you!

Everything I read lately is that China is cracking down all over the place and becoming increasingly unfriendly to tourists.
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Re: Why does your trekking guide in Nepal put so much baking soda in your food?
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2019, 10:50:10 PM »
So were in the planning stage for another trip.  I may be going this time.  The school has a few computers, but no internet access.  I was thinking that a harddrive with a searchable local copy of Wikipedia might be very useful for them.  Now I have to figure out how to do that.
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