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This Friday, May 23, 2014 photo shows a mirliton vine in a backyard in River Ridge, La. A Tulane University historian is working to restore the edible gourd called chayote, vegetable pear or mirliton to backyards across the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A crusade to save backyard edible gourd

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

Jackson cameraman details deadly day on Everest

By CLARK FORSTER - Associated Press

This April 24, 2014 photo released by Adrian Ballinger, founder and head guide of Alpenglow Expeditions, shows a meeting between Nepalese government delegation and Sherpa mountain guides near Everest base camp, Nepal. Nepal's attempts to salvage the Mount Everest climbing season took another hit Friday as more Sherpa mountain guides packed and left the base camp for their village homes a week after the deadliest disaster on the world's highest mountain. (AP Photo/Alpenglow Expeditions, Adrian Ballinger)

Sherpas struggle with climbing season in disarray

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Nimdige Sherpa holds a portrait of her son Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, with her husband Ankchu Sherpa seated beside her in their rented apartment in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Dozens of Sherpa guides packed up their tents and left Mount Everest's base camp Wednesday, after the avalanche deaths of 16 of their colleagues exposed an undercurrent of resentment by Sherpas over their pay, treatment and benefits. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Everest climbing season in disarray after deaths

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Relatives of mountaineers, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, cry during the funeral ceremony in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 21, 2014. Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal's ethnic Sherpa community. The avalanche killed at least 13 Sherpas. Three other Sherpas remain missing and are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Sherpas leave Everest; some expeditions nix climbs

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Bhutanese immigrants form cricket team in Erie

By JOHN DUDLEY - Associated Press

A Buddhist monk lights the funeral pyre of Nepalese climber Ang Kaji Sherpa killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 21, 2014. Buddhist monks cremated the remains of Sherpa guides who were buried in the deadliest avalanche ever recorded on Mount Everest, a disaster that has prompted calls for a climbing boycott by Nepal's ethnic Sherpa community. The avalanche killed at least 13 Sherpas. Three other Sherpas remain missing and are presumed dead. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Sherpas consider boycott after Everest avalanche

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday May 17, 2003 file photo, a view of the Kumbhu icefall, the first hurdle in the ascent to Everest from base camp, is seen from Everest Base camp, where 12 Nepalese guides were killed, Nepal. An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving three missing in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, file)

13th body pulled from snow in Everest avalanche

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

A Buddhist monk performs rituals next to a casket containing the dead body of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, offer prayers at the Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Sunday, April 20, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Survivors recall chaos, fear in Everest avalanche

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Mother of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, holds prayers beads in her hand and cries while she waits for his body at Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Search teams recovered a 13th body Saturday from the snow and ice covering a dangerous climbing pass on Mount Everest, where an avalanche a day earlier swept over a group of Sherpa guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Everest avalanche a reminder of risks Sherpas face

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

A Nepalese Sherpa Dawa Tashi, who was injured during an avalanche, gets treatment at a hospital in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, April 18, 2014. An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving three missing in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Avalanche sweeps down Everest, killing at least 12

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

FILE – In this Oct. 27, 2011 file photo, the last light of the day sets on Mount Everest as it rises behind Mount Nuptse as seen from Tengboche, in the Himalaya's Khumbu region, Nepal. The Everest climbing season began March 2014 with new rules that require climbers to bring down at least eight kilograms (17.6 pounds) of their personal garbage, and more security officials at the mountain's base camp to help climbers. More than 4,000 climbers have scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit since it was conquered in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay. Over the years, climbers have left tons of garbage on the slopes on the mountain, and some have called it the &quot;world's highest garbage dump.&quot; (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Nepal says litterbugs no longer welcome on Everest

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Founder of Seattle nonprofit charged with rape

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Nepal doctors end strike after promise of reform

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Nepal doctor strike leaves thousands without care

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

US man held at Nepal airport with bullets in bags

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In this May 22, 2013, photo distributed by Miura Dolphins Co. Ltd., 80-year-old Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura, left, uses oxygen mask and his son, Gota sips green tea as they take a rest in a tent at their South Col camp at 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) before their departure for Camp 5 during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest. (AP Photo/Miura Dolphins Co. Ltd.)

Japanese climber, 80, becomes oldest atop Everest

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

**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)

Iranian arrested with fake Israeli passport held on terror suspicions

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A cow runs for cover as Indian police and Kashmiri protesters throw stones at one another during a protest in Srinagar, India, on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Holy cow! Katmandu cops crack down on the roaming incarnations

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

UN launches cholera plan for Haiti but needs funds

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press