Power to the periphery
Bal Bir Biswakarma from the village of Lulang at the lap of Mt Dhaulagiri in Central Nepal is a 68-year-old subsistence farmer, descendants...
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Annapurna Dhaulagiri double-take
The Nepal Himalaya has seen a spurt in expeditions this spring, largely because of the backlog of the past years, and possibly...
Spring returns to Nepal’s mountaineering
A year to the day after Nepal went into its first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020, climbers are back at Mt...
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...
Trails less travelled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsMi4Zs-KrEAt 7,193m Gurja Himal is not high by Himalayan standards, and is dwarfed by the rock and ice pyramid of Mt Dhaulagiri to the...
Gurja Himal tragedy
The disaster which struck the Korean expedition on 10 October brought Gurja Himal (7,193m) and this inaccessible region of Nepal to world...
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