Providing this information for crisis mappers who might find it useful. It comes by way of a former Peace Corps contact with ties to the Tsum Valley and Nubri areas:

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Ron Ranson <[email protected]> wrote:

I am writing these notes you requested on behalf of Mr. Lotte Lama - a former resident of Upper Tsum Valley in the village of Chhokang Paro.

These notes are in hopes of your facilitation of much needed food to the three areas of Tsum. Nubri, Lower and Upper Tsum. Lotte has heard from his sister who is a nun at Rachen Gompa near Burji. The Gompa is easy to see from the air. It has a red plaster and stone fence around the property.

1. Barpak is approximately 30-40 miles from Chhokang Paro in Upper Tsum. The trail to Tsum goes up the Budhi Gandaki and most likely completely unusable because of landslides. There are no roads into any part of Tsum. Helicopter is only way in now.

2. There are approximately 10-11,000 people in all of Tsum Valley.

3. The people are in desperate need of food. Rice, wheat, noodles, cooking oil and vegetables are important.

There were water taps in the villages and we don't know if they are still working. There is a river through the main valley for Upper and Lower Tsum for water supplies.

4. They request warm clothes for babies, kids and adults. The Upper Tsum sits at about 10,000 ft ( over 3,000 meters). It is very cold there right now.

5. Chhokang Paro seems to be the hardest hit by the quake. We know the village of Chhokang Paro is completely leveled. No structures exist now. Unfortunately the grain and food for humans and livestock in mixed into the mess of rocks, timbers and water - and completely lost. This is a huge humanitarian crisis as there is no way to resupply these residents by land.

It is reported there is less structural damage as one goes up the valley toward Mu Gompa.

6. In Lower Tsum - Ripchet had a substantial fire in the village. There might be injuries there. We don't know. We have not heard from Chumling. The trail is blocked. There is no electricity or communication in the valley.

7. Nubri is to the west of these areas of Tsum and we don't know what has happened there. Tsum residents have not been able to communicate with them. But it is similar to Lower and Upper Tsum - and very hard to travel there. There is a major monastery at Surang Gompa nearish to Nubri. We don't know how they fared in the quake.

8. In Upper Tsum there are plenty of open fields to land an helicopter...near Chhokang Paro. There are fields to the immediate south of Ripchet in which to land. Ripchet is one of the poorest places I have ever seen (Ron writing). There is a new trekkers' lodge at Burji and a field just to the immediate north for landing. If the copter goes over a Mr. Dhawa Lama will probably come out to direct the copter to a landing spot. There is a grassy field behind his lodge. He is there now with some French trekkers.

9. There is a nun at Domje in Lower Tsum who is trained as a dentist and doctor. She might be a big help if she can be contacted and given medical supplies.

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Is this a glacier?

British Territorial Waters, Gibraltar.

Someone is making a petty political statement on this map by removing Gibraltar's Territorial Waters, recognised by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in order to support an invalid and unjustified claim by Spain.

British waters can legally extend to the full 12nm as per UNCLOS, but in practice only 3nm is officially British.

Spain's lack of recognition of British Gibraltar Territorial waters is utterly irrelevant and has no basis in logic or legality.

Please correct this, this should be a site to provide accurate mapping and not a platform for people to further state propaganda.

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no building here / kein Gebäude hier

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