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Development on Past Articles
In this column, we report on significant developments and new ideas relating to articles which appeared in past issues of Himal.
TENGBOCHE: WHAT WENT UP IN FLAMES? (Jan/Feb 1989)
A Tengpoche Monastery Recon-struction Committee has been set up, with a predominantly Sherpa membership and headed by the Incarnate Lama Nawong Tenzin Jangpo. Also helping will be Sir Edmund Hillary, Zeke O´Cconor of the Hillary Foundation (Canada), Richard Blum of the American Himalayan Foundation, French alpinist Maurice Herzog, Guenther Strom of the Deutsche Alpine Club, and the Japan Alpine Club. An offer has aiso come from former United States President Jimmy Carter.