It’s been nearly two years since one of Nepal’s major fault lines sparked the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed at least 8,000 lives and many of the Himalayan nation’s historic monuments. Yet the ...

Nepal has trained its first cohort of deaf trekking guides, with four women and 21 men receiving instruction ranging from ...

KATHMANDU, April 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Nepali labourer Om Bahadur Purja sprained his leg in his remote village he would have faced a four-hour trek to the nearest medical centre - but ...

This week, The Himalayan Database has updated its list of spring 2025 summits in Nepal. We examine the current trends.

Rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as ...

A report published in February last year, titled “The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Change, Sustainability and People” was a wake up call for the international community. It warned that the ...

Did you know this tiny country is home to eight of the world’s fourteen tallest mountains? Yeah. Welcome to Nepal. Snowy peaks glow as the sun creeps in. Sharp ridgelines. Endless quiet. This is the ...

High in the Himalayas, chaos defined this autumn climbing season. More than three weeks before the climbing season was set to end, Nepali authorities issued repeated alerts urging tourists to descend ...

“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no ‘meaning,’ they are meaning; the mountains are. The ...

Last month, Nepal launched its first satellite, NepaliSat-1 into the orbit, joining other South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in owning a national satellite.

From his gleaming white palace among the golden pagodas in Katmandu, hollow-cheeked King Mahendra issued a royal decree: the new Prime Minister of Nepal is Dr. Kunwar Inderjit Singh. To his neighbors ...