himalayas

Nepal’s star shines in Locarno

For Thinley Lhamo, winning the best acting award for Shambhala has been a journey of self-discovery

Medication to Meditation in the Mountains

Pokhara is now a yoga tourism hub, but needs more international promotion

Giving yarsagumba a chance for regrowth

A young girl in the Ray-Ban sunglass is singing along to the tune of a song playing on a portable woofer she is...

Trekking in Nepal is open for business

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...

We’ve seen fire, and we’ve seen rain

After being ravaged by unprecedented nationwide wildfires and deadly monsoon floods this year, Nepal appears to be too busy dealing with disasters made worse by climate...

Nepal’s first hydropower from a glacial lake

Turning global warming into opportunity, melting Himalayan glacier is harnessed for electricity

Kunda Dixit

DANGER: Nepal’s glacial lakes are filling up

Among all the other disasters we have to be prepared for are glacial lake outburst floods

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...

Fire and ice

After a month in which the whole of Nepal was shrouded in choking smoke from unprecedented wildfires, the rains finally cleared the...

Alarm bells from Nanda Devi

It should not take a tragedy for the Himalaya to change its approach to mountain development. Yet every disaster that occurs is...