Mingbo Airstrip
The first of Sir Edmund Hillary's three Sherpa airstrips, cleared in 1961 in the Mingbo valley.
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The Mingbo airstrip was the first of Sir Edmund Hillary's three Sherpa airstrips. In 1961 a 400-metre strip was cleared from a yak pasture at 4,600 metres in the Mingbo valley, at the request of the Red Cross, to fly in food for Tibetan refugees.
Among the last loads flown in before a civil aviation official closed the strip was the prefabricated building that became Khumjung School.