Emergency Hybrid Management of a Post-operative Catastrophic Common Femoral Artery Bleed Secondary to Infected Ruptured Biological Patch: A Case Report by Trixie Yap, Jun Cho, Kerbi Alejandro Guevara-Noriega, Mustafa Musajee, Aneeta Parthipun, Lukla Biasi

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Wilderness Mass Casualty Incident (MCI): Rescue chain after avalanche at Everest Base Camp (EBC) in 2015 by Zafren, K, Brants, A, Tabner, K, Nyberg, A, Pun, M, Basnyat, B, Brodmann Maeder, M

“…There were intermediate stops at the villages of Pheriche and Lukla during which the casualties were offloaded, retriaged, treated, and loaded again for further transport. …”

Higher ascent, trouble breathing: High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). by Thapa, S, Basnyat, B

“…A 40 year old man started his trekking 4 days ago from Lukla (2800m) in the Everest region of Nepal. …”

Human skin bacterial flora differ with altitudes in different ethnic groups of Nepal by Dipendra Shrestha, Raju Shrestha, Rene S. Hendriksen, Luna Bhatta Sharma, Dwij Raj Bhatta

“…Bharatpur (415 m from sea level), Kathmandu (1,400 m from sea level) and Lukla (2,860 m from sea level). The isolated organisms were characterized and tested for their susceptibility against different antibiotics. …”
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Higher ascent, trouble breathing: High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) by Simant Singh Thapa, Buddha Basnyat

“…A 40 year old man started his trekking 4 days ago from Lukla (2800m) in the Everest region of Nepal. He reached Tengboche (3860 m) on third day where he was short of breath with moderate exertion and was easily fatigued. …”
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A Sustainable Solid Waste Management Plan for Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal by Alton C. Byers, Tommy Gustafsson, Milan Shrestha, Netra Chhetri

“…Based upon a collaborative approach, the plan proposes the implementation of a 4-point waste management process: (1) routine segregation of waste type at its source by lodges and home owners, (2) collection of recyclable waste from lodges and households and/or transfer of waste by lodges themselves to environmental stations, (3) transfer of all segregated waste to material recovery facilities for preprocessing and packaging, and (4) transfer of preprocessed materials to Lukla airport for transportation to Kathmandu and/or other recycling facilities. …”
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Melting Himalayan Glaciers Threaten Domestic Water Resources in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal by Leah R. Wood, Klaus Neumann, Kirsten N. Nicholson, Broxton W. Bird, Carolyn B. Dowling, Subodh Sharma

“…Samples were collected from the rivers, tributaries, springs, and taps along the major trekking route between Lukla and Everest Base Camp in the pre-monsoon seasons of 2016–2017. …”
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A review of U-Th-Pb ages from the Everest region by Simpson, R, Searle, M, Parrish, R

“…A further age from the base of the HHC south of Lukla is also discussed. This age is close to that obtained from monazite within leucosomes of the Namche Migmatite (Viskupic and Hodges, 2000), and could lend support to suggestions of structural discontinuity between the upper and lower HHC. …”