For Thinley Lhamo, winning the best acting award for Shambhala has been a journey of self-discovery
Pokhara is now a yoga tourism hub, but needs more international promotion
A typical landscape of yarsa, alpine meadow above treeline and below snowline. Pictured here is Manang’s Chuli Peak. All photos: ACHYUT TIWARIA…
Till two years ago, Pemba Norbu Sherpa was a happy-go-lucky trekking guide from Phakding on the Everest Trail. Things were looking up, he was…
Prolonged winter drought caused nationwide wildfires in Nepal, and this was followed by destructive floods at the start of the monsoon. Photos:…
Turning global warming into opportunity, melting Himalayan glacier is harnessed for electricity
Among all the other disasters we have to be prepared for are glacial lake outburst floods
The Nepal Himalaya has seen a spurt in expeditions this spring, largely because of the backlog of the past years, and possibly because of the…
After a month in which the whole of Nepal was shrouded in choking smoke from unprecedented wildfires, the rains finally cleared the air and…
A weir built 20 years ago reduced the level of the water by 3m in the Tso Rolpa glacial lake in Nepal, but it needs to go down by 20m to reduce…
What remains of the Dhauliganga hydropower project in Chamoli district of India’s Uttarakhand state after Sunday’s deadly glacial flood. Photo:…
One of the casualties of the strain in relations between India and China will be the cooperation between the two of the world’s most populous…
Road-trips are not an established genre in Nepali films, like romance, action or comedy even though they may have all these elements. But in the…
Mount Cho Oyu (8,188m) and Nepal's longest glacier, The Ngozumba, seen from a mountain sightseeing flight on Yeti Airlines this week. Photo:…
HIGH AND DRY: A village in Mustang is one of the increasing number of settlements that have been abandoned because of water shortage caused by…
SHOULDERING THE BURDEN: The workload for women like Nanimaya Dhungana in Kavre (Above) may have increased because of the climate crisis. Photo:…
In the strict legalese that the United Nations is accustomed to, the Madrid Climate Summit is called the 25th Conference of the Parties of the…
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon…
Trekking is evolving fast on once remote east Nepal routes
Amaranth cultivation in Jumla district in NepalPhotos: LI-BIRDThe nutritious grain that mountain peoples of the Americas and high Asia…
(against garbage and bad press)
Ever since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on the border between…
Gabions above Chukung with the summit of Lhotse peeking through the clouds last month. All photos: ALTON C BYERSIn an example of local people…
How many of us knew that Edmund Hillary had written a novel called Call Not To the Gods under the nom de plume Gary Sankar about an expedition…
