For comparison, climbing fees for Nepal's other mountains range from about 18, 000 to 38, 000 Nepali rupees.
To pay for the processing and facilities, climbers pay a tax of 1, 000 Nepali rupees per kilogram.
"There may be presidential rule, " says Gagan Thapa from the opposition Nepali Congress Party.
With a history of unstable coalitions, many Nepali politicians appear to think this mess normal.
Then the opposition Nepali Congress Party expects to move into government to oversee elections.
More than 100, 000 ethnic Nepali Bhutanese fled or were expelled from the country in the early 1990s.
Some camp dwellers (and Nepali politicians) gave Bhutan reason to suspect they wanted to oust the government.
Today, Kopila -- which means "flower bud" in Nepali -- is home to about 50 children, from infants to teenagers.
But like the rest of the Nepali elite, he seemed not to accept the people's electoral choice.
The petite woman sat in a circle with other women who clapped and sang a Nepali folk song.
"If it had guts, it should have been able to talk to the kidnappers, " another resident, Prem Nepali, says.
Worse, many of the road-builders are in fact Bhutanese, though Nepali-speaking and Hindu.
Established in 1984, NPI is involved in building capacity and skills of Nepali journalists through short-term and long-term courses.
He also wore Western clothes (another first) but made a gesture to national custom by donning a traditional Nepali cap.
The Model Curricula for Journalism Education is currently available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Nepali, Russian and Spanish.
She says it would give her a lot of pain to kill a fellow Nepali but would if duty required.
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The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) party has long campaigned for a separate state for Nepali-speaking Gorkhas in the tea-producing Darjeeling hills.
The present government is a wobbly coalition whose main members are Mr Koirala's centrist Nepali Congress Party and a leftist party.
Mr Nepal knows he is the man to beat at the polls, especially if the Nepali Congress now formally splits into factions.
Tens of thousand of Bhutanese of Nepali origin started fleeing the kingdom in the 1990s, complaining of persecution by the royal administration.
"I thought this record too should belong to a Nepali, " he said.
At just 21, Nasreen has broken all conventional rules and accepted norms of what the role of a Nepali woman should be.
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Only well-trained journalists, who understand their rights and responsibilities, can enable the Nepali media to take its crucial role in strengthening democracy.
Even as fuel got dearer--Nepal imports all its requirements from India--the outgoing Nepali Congress-led government dithered to the last in raising prices.
The Nepali experience with democracy in its first coming proved rather mixed.
Reports suggest that two opposition parties, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Unified Marxist Leninists (UML), refused a compromise offered by ethnic groups.
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The foundation has rescued 12, 000 Nepali girls and young women from sex trafficking, many who were sold across the border to brothels in India.
In Nepal, the Federation of Nepali Journalists has, between 1 January 2010 and 28 March 2012, recorded over 215 instances of this unacceptable violence.
The Bhutan government tried to preempt what it saw as a demographic war, and many citizens of Nepali descent fled or were illegally expelled.
The signature drink, a rice-gin concoction known as raksi, or aiyla, is well more than 50% alcohol and costs just 40 Nepali rupees for a double shot.
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