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Kathmanduor KatmanduCity (pop., 2001: 671,846), capital of Nepal. Situated near the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati rivers at an elevation of 4,344 ft (1,324 m), it was founded in 723. Its name refers to a temple (kath, “wood”; mandir, “temple”) said to have been built from the wood of a single tree in 1596. The seat of the ruling Shah family of the Gurkha people since 1768, it is Nepal's most important business and commercial centre and the site of Tribhuvan University. Katmandu, Kathmandu the capital of Nepal, in the east at the confluence of the Baghmati and Vishnumati Rivers. Pop.: 814 000 (2005 est.) |
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It did so for the very simple reason that the Mass was celebrated in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal in the Himalayas, and that for the past couple of months we had been traveling through several poor Asian countries. The picture that emerged from injured survivors who were helicoptered off Everest on Monday to Katmandu, the capital of Nepal, and from Internet reports, was of a storm that blew up in minutes Friday afternoon, turning what had been a good climbing day into a nightmare of temperatures that plunged to 40 degrees below zero, of swirling snowstorms that climbers call whiteouts, and fateful choices that determined which of the climbers died and which survived. |
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