adventure

Yak Attack: Single Track Edition

https://vimeo.com/383697369?fbclid=IwAR19iBQhXtMidmuMYcGdoy8JBnFs3Ms_Mk5vgTj4ejYTKritL7LdTBxNRmwReigning 3-time winner, and current 3-time 24-Hour Mountain Bike Race World Champion, Cory Wallace, defends his title, while Nepali Budhi Bahadur Tamang...

Nepal’s female guides prepare for trekking season

Eighty women enrolled in the Nepal Mountain Academy’s training for trekking guides this year, more than double the number last year. No...

Satisfying trekker appetite for adventure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZCkbAzZU4c&feature=youtu.beAn assortment of French cheeses, appetisers and wine sit atop a stately table adorned with a purple tablecloth against the backdrop of...

Wider world for women

Until she was 48, Eka Kumari Karki had never travelled alone. Then she heard of a unique project that is trying to...

Expedition brings down 11 tons of Mt Everest trash

At a time when traffic jam on Mt Everest is grabbing headlines around the world, a clean-up campaign on the world’s highest...

Hell of a journey

Driving on the Tibetan plateau was, aside from the altitude, fairly straightforward. Chinese highways are world-class, the terrain relatively flat and the facilities...

Holy Waters

https://youtu.be/-9rP1yNydLsBeat the crowd to Khayer LakeSewa Bhattarai in MyagdiThe Ghorepani-Poon Hill Trek? That is so last century. Now that road access makes...

Why we climb mountains

Mountaineers have been asked why they climb mountains for as long as big mountains have been climbed. But for Himalayan and other...

Teeing off on a trek? Why not?

When asked why on earth he would want to hit a golf ball at various high passes above 5,000m in the Himalaya,...

Terrifying assessment of a Himalayan melting

While the global media’s attention is on the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic and eastern Antarctica, a landmark report released this week...

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