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17-670: Kulung in some ten villages along the upper reaches of the Huṅga or Hoṅgu River (a tributary of the Dūdhkosī), in Solukhumbu District of Sagarmāthā Zone , Nepal . The main Kulung-speaking villages are Chhemsi and Chheskam . The particular dialect of the language spoken in these two villages is considered by the Kulung to be the most original form of their language. Downstream, on both sides of

34-668: A major river and valley in the Sankhuwasawa District of Koshi Province in Nepal . It is a tributary of the Hinku River, which subsequently flows into the Dudh Kosi . The Hongu Valley is at the back of the Everest region. It has views of the peaks of Everest, Lhotse , Nuptse and Ama Dablam . The Hongu basin is a river valley which feeds a group of lakes. The Hongu region offers one of

51-428: Is a river in eastern Nepal . It is the highest river in terms of elevation . Dudh Koshi originates from the glacier lakes at the height of 5,100 meters above sea level and meets Sapta Koshi at the altitude of 1,245 meters. The Kosi River , or Sapt Koshi, drains eastern Nepal. It is known as Sapta Koshi because of the seven rivers which join together in east-central Nepal to form this river. The main rivers forming

68-582: Is a source of common misconception that this was the first trip on the river. Note that both expeditions didn't embark on Dudh Kosi but rather on Lobuche which is the river formed by the Khumbu Glacier and which runs around Pheriche. Just below Pheriche it merges with Imja Khola which then runs for about ten kilometres before it joins Dudh Kosi under Tengboche . Since then, there were many expeditions using wide variety of boat constructions allowing to run some rapids that had to be portaged previously. However

85-617: The Dudh Koshi to the southwest of Surkya and continues its southerly course to Harkapur , where it joins the Sun Kosi . The river is characteristic of extreme white water and normally cannot be used for watersports. The descent is over 5% and there are rapids that reach WW VI difficulty (not yet rated by AWA ) and places that need to be portaged even with the best equipment. In addition, the river often changes — big stones getting moved around by natural forces etc. Flowing down from Mount Everest,

102-821: The Huṅga river, in villages that are now called Luchcham, Gudel , Chocholung, Nāmluṅg, Pilmo, Bung, Chhekmā, and Sātdi, less prestigious varieties of Kulung are spoken. Ethnologue lists the following Kulung villages: Dialects of the Kulung language include Sotang (Sotaring, Sottaring), Mahakulung, Tamachhang, Pidisoi, Chhapkoa, Pelmung, Namlung, and Khambu. Kulung distinguishes among eight vowels and 11 diphthongs . There are three series of stops: dorso- velar , dental , and labial , each series having an unaspirated voiceless, aspirated voiceless, and unaspirated voiced variant. There are three voiced nasals , four approximants , one vibrant , one fricative , and three affricates . Kulung has six short vowels and six long vowels: To

119-624: The Sapta Koshi River system are – the Sun Koshi (सुन कोशी)], the Indravati River (इन्द्रावती), the tama Koshi (तामा कोशी), the Dudh Koshi (दुध कोशी), the Arun River (अरुण), Tamor River (तमोर) and Likhu River. The Dudh Kosi river originates from the high-altitude areas of Mount Everest (8848 metres) and the snow and glacier melt contributes significant portion of streamflow, especially during

136-509: The dry season. The combined river flows through the Chatra Gorge in a southerly direction to emerge from the hills. The river drains the Mount Everest massif, the highest peak in the world. It begins just east of Gokyo Lakes and flows south to Namche Bazaar . Continuing south, the Dudh Koshi exits Sagarmatha National Park and passes to the west of Lukla . The Lamding Khola joins

153-519: The finest wilderness treks in Nepal where even huts and herds are rarely seen. Both the Hongu and Hinku valleys remain uninhabited, although there are kharka in the upper Hinku basin where Sherpas from the south, near Pangkongma, graze their animals during the grass-growing monsoon. This article related to a river in Nepal is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dudh Kosi Dudh Koshi (दुधकोशी नदी, Milk-Koshi River )

170-565: The journey from Děhylov by cars (notably using customized Tatra 138 that had to survive over 30,000 km forth and back). For the last part from Lukla to Pheriche , 110 porters were hired to carry the boats and other equipment. The actual river trip began on 1 April near Pheriche at 4,243 mamsl and ran for 126 km down to Sun Kosi. The paddlers used both covered tandem canoes ( C2 ) of Vertex brand and solo kayaks (K1), all made of fiberglass . The expedition returned home safely in August

187-524: The lakes at the Khumbu Glacier . But the high water flow had its downside — many parts were too dangerous and had to be omitted; the result was that just two boats out of eleven survived to the end at the confluence with Sun Kosi. It is unclear which parts of the river were skipped, but the descent is generally considered incomplete. The next year, HTV documentary movie "Dudh Kosi: Relentless River of Everest"<ref name=Dickinson>has been released which

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204-468: The main verb. Other verbal constructions found in Kulung are a gerund , imperative , supine and an infinitive . Tolsma, Gerard Jacobus (2006). A Grammar of Kulung . Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Vol. 5/4. Leiden, Boston. ISBN   9789004153301 . {{ cite book }} : CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link ) Hongu River The Hongu River is

221-678: The nominal categories belong the following parts of speech: nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals. There are unambiguous morphological criteria for distinguishing between nouns and verbs. Whereas nouns can be marked for case and number, finite verbs are marked for person, number, and tense. There is no grammatical gender in Kulung. The ten Kulung personal pronouns have three number distinctions (singular, dual, and plural) and three person distinctions (first person, second person and third person) as well as an inclusive/exclusive distinction. There are no gender distinctions . Kulung has thirteen cases. Case endings are attached to nouns with or without

238-433: The non-singular suffix. Allomorphy of case endings depends on whether the noun ends in a vowel or consonant. Below the case endings of the noun lam 'road' are presented. The Kulung verb is characterised by a system of complex pronominalisation , in which paradigmatic stem alternation is found. Personal endings consist of morphemes expressing notions like tense , agent , patient , number , and exclusivity. Depending on

255-405: The number of verbal stems and their position in the verbal paradigm, every verb in Kulung belongs to a certain conjugation type. Complete conjugations of verbs belonging to the different conjugation types are presented in the second appendix. Like in other Kiranti languages, compound verbs are found in Kulung. These compound verbs consist of a verb stem and an auxiliary that adds semantic notions to

272-458: The river is believed to be the highest navigable whitewater . As such, it came to the attention of teams participating in the world cup since Austrian paddlers made a world record descending from 3,200 m altitude in France . Czechoslovak sportsmen then agreed to take up the challenge. A team of sixteen men, including fourteen Czechs and two Slovaks, had been gathered and on 4 January 1973 they set on

289-491: The same year. Three years later, in 1976, there was a British expedition of seven kayakers under the leadership of Mike Jones . They used 4 metres long fiberglass slalom-style kayaks specially designed by Pyranha Canoes with extra buoyancy and reinforcement. The expedition is notable for taking place in September to avoid ice and when the water was high to set new altitude record. They paddled at approximately 5300 mamsl on one of

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