A small start-up project in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, is repurposing cast-off climbing ropes from the Himalayas to create handmade crafts and provide economic opportunity. Sunita Kumari Chaudhary and her fellow craftswomen are weaving dinner table mats and jewelry boxes with the discarded ropes.
They're turning cast-off climbing ropes into handmade crafts . It's part of a fledgling effort in Nepal to repurpose mountain waste and provide economic opportunity . Sunita Kumari Chaudhary weaves a dinner table mat with ropes once used by climbers in the Himalayas. She and her fellow craftswomen are part of a small start-up project in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal , to repurpose Everest trash.
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Sunita Kumari Chaudhary quietly weaves together lengths of rope, binding them with grass collected from the riverbank in her village of Dang. She skillfully shapes the materials into a jewelry box. As she weaves, she's instructing a small group of women how to work with the materials. The ropes that Chaudhary and the others are using were once the lifeline for mountain climbers tackling Nepal's mountains and were then tosse
Climbing Ropes Handmade Crafts Repurpose Nepal Economic Opportunity
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