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Café sales relieve Nepal
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Café sales relieve Nepal

  • Kirby Neumann-Rea
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Lauren Bardenett adds the flourish to a coffee drink at Doppio, 310 Oak St., where all day May 27 the café will donate 10 percent of proceeds — drinks and food — to help an earthquake-damaged Nepal village of Kumari.

Avalanche sweeps down Everest, killing at least 12
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Avalanche sweeps down Everest, killing at least 12

  • BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, Associated Press
  • Updated

KATMANDU, Nepal— An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving four missing in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest peak. Several more were injured.

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Long ago, in a country far, far away: Guesthouse in Nepal

  • Craig Joseph Danner

The guest house had a splendid dining area, with a heavy, 20-foot-long dining table that was built over a trench and covered with a heavy wool blanket that draped down over your lap. When it got cold, the owners shoveled small loads of glowing coals into the trench, the warmth kept beneath the table by the blanket, splendidly toasting your feet and legs. It was bliss!