The Kingdom of Nepal

is a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia, bordering the People's Republic of China to the north and India to the south, east and west. For a relatively small country, the Nepali landscape is uncommonly diverse, ranging from the humid Terai in the south to the lofty Himalayas in the north. Nepal boasts eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest on the border with China. Kathmandu is the capital and largest city. The origin of the name Nepal is uncertain, but the most popular understanding is that it derived from Ne (holy) and pal (cave).

Himalayas

The Himalayas or "abode of snow" is in fact the youngest and highest mountain system in the world. It extends over 2,400kms as a vast south-facing area between the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers with Nanga Parbat (8,125m) and Namcha Barwa (7,755m) as its terminal high points. Fully a third of 800kms of its central section traverses Nepal and is known as the Nepal Himalayas, Here congregate more than 250 peaks that exceed 6,000m in height-a unique concentration of lofty dazzling summits. Of the thirty one Himalayan peaks over 7,600m, twenty-two like in Nepal Himalayas including eight of the world's fourteen highest giants. These are:

 History of Gurkha
 
Robert Clive's decisive victory at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 firmly established British supremacy in India thereby opening the door for expansion of the Honourable East India Company.  Some 10 years after Plassey the British started to come into contact with a unique and vigorous power on the northern borders of its newly won territories in Bengal and Bihar.  This power was the city-state of Gorkha led by its dynamic King Prithwi Narayan Shah.  Gorkha was a feudal hill village in what is now western Nepal, the village from which the Gurkha takes its name.  Prithwi Narayan Shah and his successors grew so powerful that they overran the whole of the hill country from the Kashmir border in the west to Bhutan in the east.  Eventually, as a result of boundary disputes and repeated raids by Gurkha columns into British territory, the Governor General declared war on Nepal in 1814.  After two long and bloody campaigns a Peace Treaty was signed at Sugauli in 1816. 

During the war a deep feeling of mutual respect and admiration had developed between the British and Nepalese adversaries, the british being much impressed by the fighting and other qualities of the Gurkha soldiers. Under the terms of the Peace Treaty large numbers of Gurkhas were permitted to volunteer for service in the East India Company's army. From these volunteers were formed the first regiments of the Gurkha Brigade, and from this time stems Britian's friendship with Nepal, a country which has proved a staunch ally ever since and has become Britian's 'Oldest Ally' in Asia. Never has the trust that was then placed in the Gurkha soldier ever been in the doubt. Alongside his British comrade in arms Gurkhas have fought in many parts of the world and have proved themselves to be of the closest of friends and bravest of allies that Britain has known