Gask, or gasque, is a kind of Swedish student party which starts with a more or less formal dinner. The word is believed to have originated from the card game vira, popular in the 19th century.
In some cities, gask is generally used to refer to a party with a formal dress code. Students at Stockholm University and the Royal Institute of Technology generally use the term gasque to refer to a gask where the dress code is a student boilersuit.
In some cases, Gasque might also be the name of an actual building, often a building belonging to the student union arranging the gasque, as in the case of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
Many universities also have thematic gasques, as well as slasques, which are less tidy gatherings.
Sikasso Airport (IATA: KSS , ICAO: GASK ) is an airport serving Sikasso in Mali.
Aerial images of runway markings show an original unpaved length of approximately 2,000 metres (6,562 ft), much of which has deteriorated or found other uses. A 225 metres (738 ft) dirt overrun on the west end of the gravel pavement appears usable.
The Sherpa people are an ethnic group in eastern Nepal.
Sherpa may also refer to:
Sherpa is an Australian company that provides on-demand delivery through technology and a network of crowdsourced couriers. Users can have anything delivered locally in less than 2 hours.
Sherpa operates in Sydney & Melbourne, Australia with operations soon to expand to Asia. Sherpa was founded in 2014 by Mathieu Cornillon, Ben Nowlan & Bastien Vetault.
Sherpa takes the concept of crowdsourcing, utilising the existing inventory of people and vehicles to provide a dynamic and true on-demand delivery solution for businesses and users.
Sherpa (Tibetan: "eastern people", from shar "east" and pa "people") are an ethnic group from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas.
Sherpa as a surname appears to be the result of the Nepalese government census takers. Not recognizing that some people only have one name, they wrote the word on census forms in the space for last name. In some cases the clan name was written and in others the ethnicity, i.e. Sherpa. These have then been adopted or forced to be used as last names, last names not being a part of Sherpa culture. A similar effect is seen with the Karen people, who also do not traditionally have more than one name and are a mobile mountain folk.
Most Sherpa people live in Nepal's eastern regions; however, some live farther west in the Rolwaling valley and in the Helambu region north of Kathmandu. Tengboche is the oldest Sherpa village in Nepal. The Sherpa language belongs to the south branch of the Tibeto-Burman languages; however, this language is separate from Lhasa Tibetan and unintelligible to Lhasa speakers.