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When Nuria Shamsed* was a child, she would sit with her family in front of her grandparents’ house on the outskirts of the Western Chinese…
When Nuria Shamsed* was a child, she would sit with her family in front of her grandparents’ house on the outskirts of the Western Chinese…
LGBTQ+ activists in Nepal are hailing an interim order from the Supreme Court which has cleared the way for same-sex marriage to become a reality.…
Glaciers in Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalayas are melting at unprecedented rates and could lose up to 75 percent of their volume by century’s end, scientists…
Kathmandu mayor bans screening of Indian films after movie inspired by Hindu epic Ramayana sparks controversy. The mayor of Nepal’s capital has banned the screening…
The Department of Homeland Security rescinded the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status designations for El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua on Tuesday, while…
Scaling Mount Everest is always dangerous. But expedition organisers have warned that a combination of extreme weather, corner-cutting on safety, and inexperienced and “impatient” foreign…
Gelje Sherpa found the Malaysian hanging from a rope and shivering in an area where temperatures can dip below minus 30C (86F). A Malaysian climber…
When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa first climbed Mount Everest 70 years ago, they paved the way for thousands of foreign climbers to try…
The 2023 International Freedom Report on Nepal has sparked controversy due to allegations that right-wing religious groups associated with the ruling party of India are…
As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is growing concern about temperatures rising, glaciers and…
Prosecutors say huge amounts of money were collected from hundreds of Nepalis to send them to the US as Bhutanese refugees. Nepali prosecutors have charged…
Pasang Dawa reached the top with a Hungarian client atop the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak. A Nepali Sherpa guide climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time,…
More than 900 climbers to head up the world’s highest peak four years after at least four deaths were blamed on overcrowding. Nepal has issued…
Noel Hanna died while returning from the summit while Indian climber Anurag Maloo fell into a crevasse on the same mountain. A renowned Irish climber…
Independent trekking is about to be banned from Nepal’s protected mountain regions and national parks, in a move designed to boost employment and increase safety…
The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal suspends two employees of the air traffic controller department for ‘carelessness’. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has…
The vote was called after Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s old coalition allies pulled out of the government over the choice of a new president. Nepal’s Prime…
Two years ago, as he arrived to check a mountain trout fishing centre he owned near the Tibetan border, Gyanendra Kachhapati noticed the Melamchi river…
From: 101 EastTigers and rhinos were almost poached to extinction in Nepal – now their numbers are on the rise. We ask how they did…
The election of senior Nepali Congress leader to the post of president comes as the governing coalition split over his nomination by the Nepali PM.…