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**FILE** The last light of the day sets on Mount Everest on Oct. 27, 2011, as it rises behind Mount Nuptse as seen from Tengboche, in the Himalaya's Khumbu region in Nepal. (Associated Press)

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Andreas Rasch (center), a Dane who was one of six survivors of a plane crash in the Himalayas, is taken for treatment in the nearby city of Pokhara, Nepal, on Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Krishnamani Baral)

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Nepal's Chandra Bahadur Dangi receives a certificate from Craig Glanday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, after being declared the world's shortest living man and shortest man ever by the Guinness Book of Records at a ceremony in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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Nepalese rescue workers and civilians gather around the wreckage of a Beechcraft 1900D operated by Buddha Air after it crashed in the mountains outside Bisankunarayan village, just south of Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. The plane, carrying tourists to view Mount Everest, went down while attempting to land in dense fog; all 19 people on board were killed, officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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Nepalese soldiers on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, carry an injured civilian over an area near Dharan in the Dhankuta district of eastern Nepal that was hit by a landslide following a magnitude-6.9 earthquake on Sunday. (AP Photo/Sita Mademba)

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A Nepalese woman looks out of a window at debris of collapsed buildings damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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Nepalese remove a motorbike buried under the debris of a house damaged by Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo)

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Police on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, look for victims in a house that collapsed after Sunday's earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, about 9 miles from Katmandu, the capital. (AP Photo)

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Women in Katmandu, Nepal, remove bricks from a damaged house on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, to make way for pedestrians after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake shook northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

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A woman looks out of a window in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sept. 19, 2011, at debris from collapsed buildings that were damaged the previous day by an earthquake that shook northeast India, Nepal and Tibet. (Associated Press)

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Nepalese rescue workers and other people look on after after a wall at the the British Embassy's compound collapsed, reportedly killing three pedestrians, following a magnitude-6.8 earthquake in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hugs Charimaya Tamang of Nepal, a trafficking victim, as she receives the 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award on Monday at the State Department. The U.S. says 23 nations could face sanctions for failing to do more to fight human trafficking. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hugs Charimaya Tamang of Nepal, a trafficking victim, as she receives the 2011 Hero Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery Award on Monday at the State Department. The U.S. says 23 nations could face sanctions for failing to do more to fight human trafficking.

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Nepalese HIV-positive people and activists hold placards demanding access to adequate medical services during a rally to mark World AIDS Day in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

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Danish model Helena Christensen poses for photographs as she arrives for a press conference in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Christensen spent three days in villages in southern Nepal as part of her campaign to highlight the effect of global warming on poor and rural communities. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

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Nepalese soldiers carry the remains of plane crash victims in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday near Shikharpur village, about 50 miles south of Katmandu, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)