Engineers Without Borders - USA, Denver

NAMSALING, Ilam, Nepal - In the terraced tea fields of eastern Nepal, as mist rises through lush stands of bamboo, dozens of Hindu faithful climb the staggering 1,034 steps to a mountaintop shrine.Worshipers labor up the incline to make sacrificial offerings of goats and pigeons, or to give small coins and trinkets. The air is pungent with burning incense. Nepalese women in flowing pink and blue gowns sing morning prayers.

Frances Fierst, a member of Colorado-based Engineers Without Borders, is climbing, too, preparing to make a different kind of offering at the temple of the goddess Pathivara Mai…

(This excerpt if from an extensive writeup of the work by Bernard Amadei and the Boulder chapters in Nepal, done recently by the Rocky Mountain News.)

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