Nepal's Stamps & Himalayan Expedition Mail: S4E7
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- čas přidán 15. 10. 2022
- Let's explore Nepal's postage stamps. For this episode, a definitive stamp from the 1990s provides a lesson on Nepal's history, its monarch, and its Mountain expedition mail.
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MENTIONED LINKS & RESOURCES
The Nepal & Tibet Philatelic Study Circle (NTPSC): fuchs-online.com/ntpsc/
Confessions of a Himalayan Philatelist (article): www.himalmag.com/confessions-...
Classic stamp issues of Nepal (pdf Doc): www.rfrajola.com/nepal/NepalR...
Book:
Nepal Postal History ‘The British-Indian Post Office in Nepal
By Wolfgang C. Hellrigl, FRPSL
Publisher - Giulio Bolaffi Editore 1991
ISBN 88-858-4621-1
American Philatelic Research Library: stamps.org/services/library
Video (Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library) Expedition Mail of the Himalayas: • Expedition Mail of the...
Nuptse Listed Postcards (similar to mine):
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Thanks for taking so much time to research the history and culture of Nepal triggered through stamps. As an avid world stamp collector and a keen birdwatcher who went on a birding holiday there in 1999 this episode was fascinating. We rode on elephants to view families of wild Indian One-horned Rhinoceros up close and personal, as they only saw harmless elephants rather than humans on board. We also went on a 4 day trek in Annapurna National Park which is en route to Mt. Everest base camp and the scenery was breathtaking especially when walking the trail alongside Machha Puchhre during a golden sunset which you featured at 25:11 in your video. An interesting fact is that it is the highest mountain in the world to have never been successfully climbed as everyone attempting it died whilst trying to do so. As a result the Nepalese government now refuses to give permits to climb it to avoid more fatalities. But that just adds extra mystery to its undoubted beauty and is calling colloquially Fish Tail mountain due to its uniquely shaped summit.
Sadly we saw no pheasants though as we would have needed to go even higher than we went. I was amazed at how happy and friendly all the locals were despite all their apparent hardships. I was awestruck at seeing young girls carrying enormous loads on their heads on narrow mountain paths that I bet I could hardly lift and yet still we were met by a sunny smile I would never get here in the UK. It was a great experience that I was able to relive again through your great video despite my senior years.
Quite an exploration, I didn't know much about the history of Nepal. A big thank you for your work which continues to maintain memories and history. I have the same reaction as you two for the ascent of Mount Everest! 😄
Thank you 😊, yes there is no way that I was going to attempt that climb... nope!
I am really impressed how detailed you investigate the postal items and history. Great job! :D
Thank you very much! 😊. It is always exciting to explore covers and stamps, thanks for watching!
Thanks for the time you take to bring us yet another informative episode!
You are very welcome, thanks for watching, Jim 😊
That was a brilliant episode and really fascinating. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you Tony 😊 Glad you enjoyed it.
A brilliant and informative video Graham. Absolutely loved the postcard with the fingerprint.
Thank you Cyrus, I think the postcard has become a special item in my collection, I think it really is amazing. 😊 thanks for watching!
A very informative episode Graham. Especially liked your initial attempt to climb Mt Everest 😭. Though told in a breezy manner your laborious research comes shining through in each episode. May you climb more lofty mountains.
Thank you 😅😊. Hey maybe a mountain climber in the future will take some tweezers and their stamps to the top of Everest for us, you never know. Thanks for watching!
I was Stationed at the American Embassy as a Marine Security Guard in 1977. I loved the time I spent in that beautiful country. Thank You for such an informative episode. Let's just say I met a lot of interesting people there.
I bet you did meet a lot of interesting people, I believe the ‘hippie trail’ was still a thing in the late 70s through Nepal, so maybe some of those interesting people you met were a result of that? 😆✌️But totally can imagine that it must have been an amazing experience, thanks for sharing, Robert.
@@ExploringStamps Yes The Hippy Trail was big then!!!
I must admit I started watching this episode a few days ago and could not get interested in Nepal's story; however, I only watched a couple of minutes. Then I thought, wait a minute, every Exploring Stamps episode that Graham publishes has been extremely researched and interestingly presented. So, I finished watching this episode to discover that while I probably will never collect Nepalese stamps the complete story that included the Himalayas is very interesting and compelling. The amount of research required for this episode was obviously extensive as you made the story enticing! I should have known; your work is always impeccable. I am also amazed at the philatelic material you found and weaved into this episode. I don't know how you find these pieces for your stories and collection but I'm glad you do as they add to the quality of your story. Once again, thanks Graham. Oh, and I had to laugh.......I can only imagine how you must have pitched the idea of traveling to Nepal to Laura!
What an interesting take on this still little known mountain country. I was especially intrigued by the fingerprint on your base camp postcard from Nuptsi. At first I thought it was another kind of cancellation unique to the expedition, or perhaps an addition to the signature of a climber, something like the precursor of an emoji. That it actually was made by a postal runner is even more interesting and revealing.
Thank you Gerry! The fingerprint really had me curious throughout researching this piece. I really hope that it is the runner, and it totally makes the most sense. Thanks for watching 😊
I enjoyed you exploring the old national emblem, studying postal history before they joined the UPU and the theme of the Himalayas, Everest. Yes, everything. This is an EPIC episode, thank you for sharing with us. Now I will look for some Nepal stamps in my collections (if any).
Nepal stamps are beautiful.
Thank you Richard! As you can probably guess, an episode like this has taken me down too many rabbit holes, but always so much fun. Glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you found some Nepal stamps in your collections 😬
Yes they are!! 😊
22:17 some interesting thing here, below the text Mt. Everest, it's written "Sagarmatha" in nepali, which is its local name and means "head of the ocean". Now that is more interesting because the mountains were created because the Indian subcontinent plate crashed with the other part and gave rise to the Bunch of mountains and interestingly before its creation there was an ocean out there so it's epic that the locals knew about this event for thousands of years.
Probably they found some fossils of sea creatures.
WOW that is interesting!! And now I know another fascinating fact about Mount Everest's name in Nepali. Thank you for sharing 😊
Possible 🤷♂️
Graham this is one of my favourite episodes of all time! Such a comprehensive, thorough overview of notable events in the history and postal history of Nepal. I loved your clip of considering whether to summit Mount Everest.... although maybe Laura looked a bit disappointed you guys didn't get to go 😂. Also I know it's not the focus of the video but I just found your B-roll shots to be well planned and super calming (especially in my now chaotic life). Bravo!!! And PS I think that Nepal cow stamp is facing just the right way even if it doesn't match the emblem 😂- I have that stamp for my topical of course!
Thanks Lisa 😊. Yes Laura LOVES climbing things, she always is nagging me to go hiking and taking on physically challenging adventures... I on the other hand, would much rather not do that 😂...so this was a bit of a joke for her as well, me turning down a climb has happened a few times already.
I was wondering if you had that cow stamp!!! haha. Thanks for watching.
I was working on Postcrossing. Your channel introduced to me! I like to take breaks in between postcards. Your episode made the perfect break. Always interesting. I loved the Himalayan humor! 😆 Always excited to discover another episode available. You hold my interest in philately! Thank You Graham. As always job well done!
So glad to see that you are enjoying the hobby 😊. Postcrossing is the BEST, I'm a few weeks behind in writing some cards but I always look forward to doing it. Thanks for watching!
Each new episode provides a wealth of data and takes two or three viewings to absorb it all. It must be incredibly time consuming, but the best usually is and I wait for each episode with great anticipation. And after climbing Cathedral Rock in Sedona I would have thought Mt. Nuptse would have been a walk in the park for you.
Thanks Chai! Yeah no, those Himalayas seemed a little different to the Arizona Rocks, something about them just seemed more dangerous 🤷♂️
Another fun thing with the Nuptse Expedition card, is that the printers of the card, John Waddington Ltd, were also international stamp printers. Though they are perhaps more well known in Britain as board game manufacturers!
Oh snap that's interesting! I see that they were the UK publishers for Monopoly. Its amazing the stuff we can explore from a simple postcard, thank you for watching Magnus (working on the Stampex vid now).
As usual, a great episode of #Philately. Your research is amazing, and made me search for more information on the end of the Nepal royal family. Thanks for showing us how one stamp can lead to so many interesting topics.
Thanks Les, glad you found it interesting 😊
Some of this stamp art is simple and elegant, a home made look that has a nice feel to it.
I love simple and elegant, it always works with stamps 😊
Omg Graham, this was sooo informative I learned a heck of a lot watching this episode. Thank you again for all your hard work, effort, and even humor that you put in to making these videos. I can’t tell you how much it helps me in my stamp collecting pursuits as well as inspire me to research and collect on a whole new level. Thanks for what you do sir
Thank you Bradley, that really means a lot. Glad to see that you enjoyed the episode and learned along with me 😊 thanks for watching!
Great video! Your research was amazing. Also thanks for the link to my video on the Mt. Everest mail.
Thanks Eddie! 🙌. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation, very well done 😊
Thanks Graham, that was fascinating!
Thank you 😊. Glad you found it interesting!
Part of the joy of stamp collecting is learning about the history and culture of a country. Thanks for a comprehensive lesson abut Nepalese postal history.
It absolutely is 😊. Glad you enjoyed the lesson/episode, thanks so much for watching.
i agree
Another winner, Graham. Thanks!
Thank you Nyle 😊
Thanks a lot for your efforts to bring all those information and share them with us , its been a joy to watch .
I have plemty stamps from Nepal
I will dive in them and check them all closely 👍
Great episode. When I was at primary school (age 5-11) in the early 1960's one of my teachers was a former officer in a Gurkha regiment. In those days, nobody thought it wrong to get a smack on the back of the head (for talking in class or the like). Likewise, it seemed fine for a teacher to have a kukri on his desk during class. Happy days.
Yikes a Kukri on the desk?!? Kids were built tough back then, a former Gurkha officer was probably perfect for a class of naughty primary school kids 😉
I love your work. It's always so informative. Thanks so much for sharing your research and knowledge.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 😊
Great show as usual Graham
Thank you 😊
Great video!!! This is an instance of how a topic I’m not interested in became interesting and captured my attention. Well done!
Thank you Miguel 😊. So good to see that you enjoyed it!
Like or Dislike: Like. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. The different chapters in the narrative are composed and woven together brilliantly. A+
You are too kind 😊 thank you so much for your support! Glad you enjoyed it.
Always happy to see you post a new video. Looking forward to seeing your next one. Can you do a video on duck stamps or newspaper stamps. Have a great Sunday
Thanks Ken, both of those topics are extremely interesting, perhaps I can explore them in the near future. Thanks for watching 😊
It’s interesting the way you grab every single detail of stamps. Nepal is a very beautiful country. The tree would be a boo tree (Ficus religiosa) as you identified. Because all most all Buddhist temples have this tree.
Thanks Sara 😊. I knew that I could count on you for information about the tree, our philatelic botanical expert 🙌🌳
@@ExploringStamps A proud moment of me. 😇
Amazing episode!
Thank you Juan 😊
Another great video. I spent a couple of weeks in Nepal back on 1986. Lovely people. Keep up the good work!
I’d love to visit the country at some point, I’m told by others as well that there are so many lovely people there. Thanks for watching 😊
@@ExploringStamps You do know that we're not going to be satisfied until you've done a video on every country in the world, don't you! I promise to watch them all...😊
Thanks for another great video! I have a few pages of stamps from Nepal and this video has helped me begin to organize them more accurately!
Thanks Mallard, 😊 glad you found the video helpful!
Very interesting and so informative as usual 👍
Thank you 😊
Really interesting video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching 😊 Glad you enjoyed it!
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There's a little marble cross below the town;
There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
Another good job! In Poland we are familiar mostly with Tibetan name for Mt.Everest - Chomolungma (at least my generation and other fossils 😉)
Ah, I’m always learning 😊 “The Green Eye of the Yellow God” and the name Chomolunga. Thanks you Marcin!!
@@ExploringStamps:D czcams.com/video/Gj8E8V3Rwfs/video.html
Thanks again! I learned something about the postal history of Nepal through this episode and about the massacre of the royal family, somehow that news had not reached me. I'm looking forward to the next episode!
The Royal Massacre took me down a rabbit hole, I'm a bit surprised that I knew nothing of it.
Thank you so much for watching 😊
Beautiful Nepal stamps collection sharing 😍
Thank you 😊
watched this one last night... wow you really took it apart. just great. We have a Nepalese restaurant in Pittsburgh that's just great. Bring the collection and we'll go out to diner at Subba.
Thanks Kenneth! Ooo Nepalese food sounds great 😋 I gotta head over to Pittsburgh!
👋 Looking forward to this episode
Thanks Louis, hope you enjoyed it 😊
The temple is a stupa, a shrine or burial place containing Buddhist relics. These can be found right across Nepal.
Oh brilliant! That must be it, just looked it up. Thank you Ian 🙏
I don't think that I have many Nepal stamps, but I'm looking through my collection now. Thank you for another excellent episode. 🇳🇵
I hope you find a few 🤞. Thank you Pete, glad you enjoyed the episode.
Hi sir I Highly appreciate your work on EXPLORING THE WORLD 🌍 THROUGH STAMPS, making the presentation videos is also a time consuming with lot of research and study is involved in this. I like the way you Kick start the topic and approach the conclusion, you are not only collecting the stuff parallelly you educating the viewer's too, NICE presentation by you, all the best sir
Great and important explanation - Useful information I don't have Nepal stamps but maybe I can find them
Great episode, thank you .
You are very welcome, thank you for watching 😊
Apart from the very interesting facts about Nepal presented here, I was fascinated by the quick assembling of the stamp album at the end. Wish I could assemble albums likewise.
Thank you Deepak 😊, yep the album assembly requires practice and a special set of speed tweezers, lol 😆
Great job of researching yet another country and it's history through philately. I guess Laura meant actual trips not virtual trips when she said, "No more trips!" Too bad. I'm sure you both would have enjoyed Nepal.
Lol thanks Mark, Yes she is okay with a bit of green screen now and then 😅. Thanks for watching.
Awesome :-)
Thank you 😊
Here comes another great Grahams Production
Im laughting until 2050 about the everest scene 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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LOL, Laura was not impressed 😅
Thanks for this great video! I really enjoyed your look at the expedition postcard which is something that I knew nothing about. Suggestion for a future video - can you show how you make the postmark graphics and what software you use to do it?
Thanks Kevin, yeah I am thinking about making a behind the scenes episode soon. Stay tuned!
Great history lesson 👌 about Nepal keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😎
Thank you Mark 😊
That’s a very interesting looking stamp (1996). The style of artwork would make me think it’s decades older than it actually is. I sure hope some mountaineering philatelist gets those #xtremephilately shots that you and Laura couldn’t quite manage. :)
Agreed, it is an interesting looking stamp for its time. Maybe one day in the future we will learn about an Everest climber that took their tongs and stamps up the mountain, that would be AMAZING 😊
Thanks for watching!!
Sehr schöne Video. Danke
Danke 😊
The rhino in Munich zoo was also gifted to Germany by Nepal
Oh that’s really interesting 🦏. I love finding things out like this, thank you for sharing 😊
A mail to South Korea! The recipient is living in Jeonju(or Chonju), a beautiful city in southern part and where I come from. Wonder who this gentleman is.
Oh amazing, yes I often wonder who the person was and what their life was like (assuming they are no longer with us). It is always exciting when you know the area that they are from. Thanks for watching 😊
Next episode about Indian stamp
Hmmm I dunno 🤔, does anyone from India watch this channel?
@@ExploringStamps Yes we do 😁
@@ExploringStamps Yeah Graham, we do
@@ExploringStamps yes
Ofcourse.. huge fan
Please post a video on India.. gnat was amazing.. have seen it all 🥰
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You are welcome.
I don't collect Nepal but video is interesting primier on Nepalise history and the importance of things we take for granted like the Universal Postal Union.
The UPU situation was what I spent the most time researching, one of the things that I found fascinating about it was that there really was very little information about it out there, there seems to be a lot of knowledge gaps Nepal's postal history. Thanks for watching, Peter 😊
Great history lesson 👍 I forgot about the bounty I think I have some stamps but not sure how old 😊. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😎
Thanks Mark. 😊 Glad you enjoyed it!
Note that the country name is spelled in English. This is due to Universal Postal Union regulations that require all members to issue stamps with the country name in Latin characters (except for the UK).
Uhuuuu New stuff
🙌 😁
Vera good job. Nice video, good time and a very funny green screen joke in it. Nepal is not my subject, but I liked the philatelic journey.
Were in the world you get a hold box of stamps?
Years of accumulation I suppose 😊
catching up from where I left it :)
Awesome! I hope you enjoy the vids 😊
Will there be another episode on India in future??
Maybe 🤔. I enjoyed learning about Nepal, India could be in the future.
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Fantastic and informative episode as always, Graham. The amount of information you are able to convey while keeping it entertaining is phenomenal.
I particularly love the Nuptse expedition card!
Among the signatures that you didn't highlight is the legendary climber and author Chris Bonnington on one of his early expeditions. One of 19 climbs he's done in the Himalayas alone..
Do yourself a favour and spend a few minutes reading about him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bonington
Thank you Paul!! Yes you completely right, I probably should have pointed him out. I had actually gone down a rabbit hole learning about Bonnington and the 82 Everest expedition where he lost fellow mountaineers Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker. Crazy!! Glad you liked the expedition card, thanks so much for watching 😊
Can i use a uk postage stamp whilst im in another country?
No, the stamps have to be on mail from the country that they are issued from.
@@ExploringStamps can you guide me to which stature or law it says that please?
@@evrosglijin6566 you would have to look at each country’s postal service for the exact rule.
Here is the USPS for example: pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/dmm300/full/MailingStandards.pdf
Page 876, 604.1.3.b Postage Stamps invalid for use.
@@ExploringStamps but the postal constitution is first and after is the rule book of each country, no? 🙄
Couldn’t i use a british stamp within British commonwealth countries? Sounds abit dodgy😂
@@evrosglijin6566 the UPU doesn’t conflict with this, it’s totally aligned and is about accepting international mail with other country stamps, it’s not about accepting other country stamps on mail originating in their own country.
If I took UK stamps to Australia and expect Auspost to deliver mail for me, they would lose money. I need to buy Australian stamps to send mail in and from Australia, this pays for the service that Auspost provides.
I was amazed by the "shot" of you and your girlfriend staring off into the distance.
😊 the cameraman did a good job!
Good initiative, please do Bangladesh 🇧🇩
He have already done a beautiful episode on it.
Thanks, I just checked, it is really very interesting one..I missed..
Awesome you found the episode, thanks so much for watching 😊
Please do turkey too
I’d love to, the StampCat channel just did some epic philatelic vids on Turkey, it’s a beautiful place.
приветствую вас отличные почтовые марки. Непалл не часто попадается у нас в России
Спасибо за просмотр, 😊 марки Непала интересны, возможно, вы найдете марки Непала в своей коллекции.
I have some tickets
Poor Laura.
☹️ after dragging her all the way to the Himalayas …
@@ExploringStamps she has too much patience
@@isabelleisles7649 agreed! 😌