Officers watch new recruits swear allegiance to the Queen in British Royal Gurkha Regiment Pokhara camp Nepal
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Pokhara British Army Gurkha camp, NepalMore information:
Some 60, 000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4, 000 - 12, 000 feet. After initial selection, 7, 000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.