NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल

Mount Kanjiroba.
Stamp issued on 30.12.1987.
Face value: 10 Nepalese rupee.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 486.
- Scott No. 462.
- StampWorld No. 482.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 495.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 456.

Kanjiroba (Nepali: कान्जिरोबा) is a mountain in the Himalayas of Dolpa District, Karnali Province, western Nepal. With a summit elevation of 6,883 m (22,582 ft) above sea level, it is the highest peak of the Kanjiroba Himal, a subrange of the Himalayas. A Japanese expedition from Osaka University was the first to climb Kanjiroba in 1971 via the Southeast Ridge.

INDIA

INDIA / भारत.

15th Anniversary of Indian Mountaineering Foundation.
Mount Everest.
Stamp issued on 15.05.1973.
Face value: 20 Indian paisa.
Printed by India Security Press, Nashik.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 565.
- Scott No. 581.
- StampWorld No. 568.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 685.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 358.

Mount Everest (in Nepali, सगरमाथा [Sagarmāthā]; in Tibetan, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ [Chomolungma]; in Chinese, 珠穆朗玛 [Zhūmùlǎngmǎ]), in the Himalayas, 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) high above sea level, it is the highest mountain on the earth's surface. It is located on the border between Nepal (on its south face) and Tibel, in China (on its north face). After several attempts, the Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and the New Zelander Edmund Hillary were the first to officially reach the summit, via the southeast ridge, on May 29, 1953. The first ascent up the north ridge was made by the Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo and Qu Yinhua on May 25, 1960. The name by which the mountain is universally known, adopted by the Royal Geographical Society in 1865, is that of the British George Everest, who had been General Surveyor of India.

Indian Mountaineering Foundation is an apex national body which organize and support, mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions at high altitudes in the Himalayas. The organization also promote and encourage schemes for related adventure activities and environmental protection work in the Indian Himalayas. IMF was formed in 1957 as the Sponsoring Committee of the Cho Oyu Expedition. The foundation was registered on November 3, 1961.

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Tourism.
Triveni pilgrimage site in Khaptad National Park.
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 30.12.1983.
Face value: 2.20 Nepalese rupee.
Design: M. N. Rana.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 2,000,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 436.
- Scott No. 418.
- StampWorld No. 432.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 440.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 406.

The Triveni pilgrimage site is located into the Khaptad National Park, a protected area in the Far-Western Province, established in 1984 on the advice of Khaptad Baba, a philosopher, physician, scientist, and astrologer who moved to the area in the 1940s to meditate and worship; he it spent 50 years as a hermit in Triveni and was a renowned spiritual saint. Triveni is now a religious site for Hindu pilgrims especially July and August full moon day. The park covers an area of 225 km² (87 sq mi) and ranges in elevation from 1,400 m (4,600 ft) to 3,300 m (10,800 ft).

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Tourism.
Trishuli River.
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 15.09.1978.
Face value: 15 Nepalese paisa.
Design: Kancha Kumar Karmacharya (b. 1938).
Printed by Brüder Rosenbaum, Wien.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 36.2 x 26mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 362.
- Scott No. 347.
- StampWorld No. 358.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 365.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 334.

The Trishuli River (Nepali: त्रिशूली नदी) is one of the major tributaries of the Narayani River, in the Ganges fluvial system. It originates in Tibet as a stream and enters Nepal at Gyirong Town. It is formed by melting snow from Mount Ganesh and Langtang Himal and flows along the western boundary of Langtang National Park. It is approximately 200 km (125 mi) long. Its name derives from trishula, the trident of the god Shiva. Rafting in Trisuli is one of the most popular outdoor activities in Nepal.

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Tourism.
Mount Cho-oyu.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 30.12.1983.
Face value: 6 Nepalese rupee.
Design: M. N. Rana.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 437.
- Scott No. 419.
- StampWorld No. 433.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 441.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 407.

Cho-oyu (Nepali: चोयु; Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ; Chinese: 卓奥友峰) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 meters (26,864 ft) above sea level. It is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalayas 20 km west of Mount Everest. The mountain stands on the China–Nepal border. The northern and southern slopes of the mountain are part, respectively, of the Qomolangma Nature Reserve (Tibet) and the Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal). The mountain was first climbed on October 19, 1954, via the north-west ridge, by Herbert Tichy, Sepp Jöchler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama of an Austrian expedition.

NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल

10th anniversary of the Royal Nepal Airlines.
Map of Nepal and air routes.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 01.07.1968.
Face value: 65 Nepalese paisa.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 226.
- Scott No. C4.
- StampWorld No. 222.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 227.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA3.

Royal Nepal Airlines (शाही नपपाल वायुयुववा), currently named Nepal Airlines Corporation (नपपाल वायुयुववा निगम) was founded on July 1, 1958. The airline’s first and only aircraft was a Douglas DC-3, and its services were limited to Simara and Pokhara, and destinations to India such as Patna, Calcutta and Delhi.

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Kulekhani Dam and Indra Salobar Reservoir.
Stamp issued on 8.12.1982.
Face value: 2 Nepalese rupee.
Design: M. N. Rana.
Engraved and printed by Carl Ueberreuter Druck, Wien.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 1,500,000 copies.
Size: 36 x 26 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 424.
- Scott No. 406.
- StampWorld No. 420.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 428.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 394.

The Kulekhani Dam is a rock-fill dam on the Kulekhani River, in Makwanpur District of Narayani Zone. Its construction began in 1977 and ended in 1982. The dam, 114 m (374 ft) high, creates a reservoir called Indra Sarobar, with an area of 2.2 km² (0.85 sq mi) and a length of 7 km (4.3 mi), which stores 85,300,000 m³ (69,200 acre⋅ft) of water. From the reservoir, the water is sent to the Kulekhani I hydroelectric plant through a 5.8 km (3.6 mi) inlet tunnel; the difference in elevation between the reservoir and the power station affords a net hydraulic head of 550 m (1,800 ft).

NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल.

Rara Lake.
Third stamp in a set of 3, issued on 11.06.1970.
Face value: 1 Nepalese rupee.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 251.
- Scott No. 236.
- StampWorld No. 247.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 252.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 221.

The Rara (Nepali: राराताल) is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in Nepal. It is located in the Rara National Park, in the Himalayas, on the border of the Jumla and Mugu districts, in the northwest of the country, at an altitude of 2,990 m (9,810 ft) above sea level. Its surface area is 10.8 km² (4.2 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 167 m (548 ft). The Níjar River feeds the lake, which empties into the Karnali River, one of the main tributaries of the Ganges. In September 2007, the lake and adjacent areas were protected by the Ramsar Convention. There are more than 250 species of birds and many mammals in the area, including the Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and the red panda (Ailurus fulgens).

BULGARIA

BULGARIA / БЪЛГАРИЯ.

First Bulgarian Mount Everest Ascent.
Mount Everest.
Stamp issued on 31.05.1984.
Face value: 5 Bulgarian stotinki.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 1,000,000 copies.
Size: 33 x 44 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 3269.
- Scott No. 2981.
- StampWorld No. 3279.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3150.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2844.

Mount Everest (in Nepali, सगरमाथा [Sagarmāthā]; in Tibetan, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ [Chomolungma]; in Chinese, 珠穆朗玛 [Zhūmùlǎngmǎ]), in the Himalayas, 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) high above sea level, it is the highest mountain on the earth's surface. It is located on the border between Nepal (on its south face) and Tibel, in China (on its north face). After several attempts, the Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and the New Zelander Edmund Hillary were the first to officially reach the summit, via the southeast ridge, on May 29, 1953. The first ascent up the north ridge was made by the Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo and Qu Yinhua on May 25, 1960. The name by which the mountain is universally known, adopted by the Royal Geographical Society in 1865, is that of the British George Everest, who had been General Surveyor of India.

The mountaineer Hristo Prodanov (Bulgarian: Христо Проданов), born in Karlovo on February 24, 1943, died on Mount Everest on April 22, 1984. A member of the first Bulgarian expedition to Mount Everest, he was also the first Bulgarian to reach the summit of the mountain on April 21, 1984, doing it via the most difficult way (the West Ridge) as well as alone and without oxygen. Climbing the summit at 18:15 local time, he had to descend overnight and got lost shortly after that. On the next afternoon, I have reported he had lost his gloves and soon would be unable to hold the radio button long enough to talk. His body of him was never found.

FRANCE

FRANCE.

50th anniversary of the conquest of Annapurna by Louis Lachenal et Maurice Herzog.
Stamp issued on 05.06.2000.
Face value: 3 French francs / 0.46 euro.
Design: Jean-Paule Cousin (b. 1942)
Engraving: André Lavergne (b. 1946).
Printing: Recess.
Print: 9,434,075 copies.
Size: 26 x 40 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 3565.
- Michel No. 3472.
- Scott No. 2775.
- StampWorld No. 3450.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 3668.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 3331.

Annapurna (Sanskrit and Nepali: अन्नपूर्ण) is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak over 8,000 m (26,247 ft), thirteen peaks over 7,000 m (22,966 ft), and sixteen more over 6,000 m (19,685 ft). The massif is 55 km (34 mi) long, and is bounded by the Kali Gandaki Gorge on the west, the Marshyangdi River on the north and east, and by Pokhara Valley on the south. At the western end, the massif encloses a high basin called the Annapurna Sanctuary. The highest peak of the massif, Annapurna I Main, is the tenth highest mountain in the world at 8,091 m (26,545 ft) above sea level. The entire massif and the surrounding area are protected within the 7,629 km² (2,946 sq mi) Annapurna Conservation Area, the first and largest conservation area in Nepal. Annapurna I Main was the first 8000 to be climbed: mountaineers Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog, reached the summit on June 3, 1950.

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Tourism.
Ganesh Himāl Range.
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 16.12.1975.
Face value: 2 Nepalese paisa.
Design: K. Karmacharya.
Printed by Pakistan Security Pinting, Karachi.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 5,000,000 copies.
Size: 35 x 25.5 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 323.
- Scott No. 308.
- StampWorld No. 319.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 325.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 298.

Ganesh Himāl (Nepali: गणेश हिमाल) is a Himalayan massif located mostly in north-central Nepal, but some peaks lie on the border with Tibet. It is located about 70 km (43.5 mi) northeast of Kathmandu. The highest peak is Yangra (Ganesh I), 7,422 m (24,350 ft). There are three other peaks over 7000 m and another fourteen over 6000 m. The first ascent of Ganesh was made on October 6, 1955 by the Swiss climbers Raymond Lambert, Pierre Vittoz and Eric Gauchar, and by the French Claude Kogan.

NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल.

Phewa Lake.
Second stamp in a set of 3. issued on 11.06.1970.
Face value: 25 Nepalese paisa.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 250.
- Scott No. 235.
- StampWorld No. 246.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 251.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 220.

Phewa Tal or Fewa Lake (Nepali: फेवा ताल) is a freshwater lake in Nepal formerly called Baidam Tal located in the south of the Pokhara Valley, at an altitude of 742 m (2,434 ft) and covers an area of about 4.43 km² (1.7 sq mi). It has an average depth of about 8.6 m (28 ft) and a maximum depth of 24 m (79 ft). It is stream-fed but a dam regulates the water reserves, therefore, the lake is classified as semi-natural freshwater lake. The lake is also famous for the reflection of mount Machhapuchhre and other mountain peaks of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri ranges, in the Himalayas, on its surface.  

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NEPAL / नेपाल.

Gosaikunda Lake.
First stamp in a set of 3, issued on 11.06.1970.
Face value: 5 Nepalese paisa.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 249.
- Scott No. 234.
- StampWorld No. 245.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 250.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 219.

Gosaikunda (Nepali: गोसाइकुन्ड) is a small oligotrophic freshwater alpine lake in the Langtang National Park, Rasuwa District, located in the Himalayas at an altitude of 4,380 m (14,370 ft), with an area of 0.14 km² (0.05 sq me). It drains into the Trishuli River and remains frozen from October to June. The Gosaikunda area is considered a site of religious importance, as Hindu mythology describes it as the abode of the gods: legend has it that the lake was formed when the Hindu god Shiva drove his trident (trishula) into the ground to obtain water.

SOVIET UNION

SOVIET UNION / СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК.

Soviet Expedition to Mount Everest.
Minisheet issued on 20.12.1982.
Face value: 50 Soviet kopek.
Design: Yury Levinovsky (b. 1933).
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 800,000 copies.
Size: 67 x 84 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. BL160.
- Scott No. 5106.
- StampWorld No. 5034.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS 5291.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 159.
- Zagorski No. BL163.

The first unofficially known Soviet expedition to the Himalayas consisted of six mountaineers, who unsuccessfully attempted to climb Mount Everest from Tibet in October 1952: all of them died in the attempt, which was hidden from view public opinion and even assured that such an expedition had not been carried out.

The expedition commemorating the stamp, in 1982, led by Evgeni Tamm (1926-2008), was successful: on May 4, eleven Soviet climbers reached the summit of Everest by a new route on the southwest face that was recognized as the most technically difficult to date.

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Thanks to Kazimierz R. Leszczyński for his contribution (http://leszkarozdub.blogspot.com).

NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल.

Mount Everest.
Stamp issued on 14.03.2007.
Face value: 5 Nepalese rupee.
Size: 40 x 30 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 881.
- StampWorld No. 878.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 895.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 849.

Mount Everest (in Nepali, सगरमाथा [Sagarmāthā]; in Tibetan, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ [Chomolungma]; in Chinese, 珠穆朗玛 [Zhūmùlǎngmǎ]), in the Himalayas, 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) high above sea level, it is the highest mountain on the earth's surface. It is located on the border between Nepal (on its south face) and Tibel, in China (on its north face). After several attempts, the Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and the New Zelander Edmund Hillary were the first to officially reach the summit, via the southeast ridge, on May 29, 1953. The first ascent up the north ridge was made by the Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo and Qu Yinhua on May 25, 1960. The name by which the mountain is universally known, adopted by the Royal Geographical Society in 1865, is that of the British George Everest, who had been General Surveyor of India.

NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल.

Mount Machapuchare (in Annapurna massif, Himalayas).
Silver Jubilee of Royal Nepal Airlines.
Stamp issued on 01.08.1983.
Face value: 1 Nepalese rupee.
Design: Mohan Narsingh Rana.
Printed: Offset.
Printed by Secura Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Print: 3,000,000 copies.
Size: 35,27 x 28,58 mm.

Catalogues
- StampWorld No. 423.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 397.

NEPAL

NEPAL / नेपाल.

First legislative election.
Stamp issued on 18.02.1959.
Face value: 6 paisa.

Catalogues
- Scott No. 103.
- StampWorld No. 108.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 93.