Such a return is needed also on compassionate grounds, to address the psychological trauma these young Nepalis must be experiencing far from home.
According to a 2009 estimate, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and Nepalis living abroad were worth $1 trillion, with another guess the following year suggesting that non-resident Indians own a further $500m-worth of gold, property and art.
The manager of a bank on the high street and many of the Gurkhas who turned up to greet the victorious British campaigner said the local economy is bound to suffer.Few Nepalis feel strongly about Gurkhas' complaints of unequal treatment by the British.
Clients pay expedition organisers up to $90,000 a time ($10,000 of which goes to the Nepali government) to climb Everest, but the expensive medicines and equipment they enjoy are generally not available to the Nepalis.
They swept a 2008 election and retain both a standing army and support among poorer Nepalis.
Many Nepalis believe that India played a role in 2006 in bringing an end to the monarchy and to a nine-year civil war with Maoist rebels.
Many Nepalis say they voted Maoist for fear that the ex-rebels might go back to war, a fear fuelled by local Maoists' threats.
Many Nepalis seem ambivalent about kings in general; but almost all want to see the back of this one.There is, however, another, less positive, explanation for the public apathy about the monarchy's future.
Some Nepalis have yielded to what Ms Thapa calls "a retreat from idealism into a knowing irony and its source, despair".
In the past week the Gorkhas, ethnic Nepalis living in West Bengal, have said they will organise strikes to promote their demand for a Gorkhaland, while the Bodo tribe has issued new demands for a Bodoland, separated from the state of Assam.
But Nepal and Rwanda have done markedly better at reducing "multi-dimensional" poverty.In 2006 around 60% of Nepalis were poor, according to the MPI.
