Khumbu since 1950
Alton C Byers and Lhakpa Sonam Sherpa have teamed up to expand, update, and improve the first edition of Khumbu Since 1950...
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Khumbu dogs go wild after tourism decline
When Nepal’s trekking income dropped due to the pandemic, hungry dogs behaved like the wolves they evolved from
The greening of the Khumbu
During the 1970s and early 1980s, it was commonly assumed by the development community that the Himalaya was approaching catastrophic levels of...
Nepal building a highway to Everest
Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to...
Everest trek closed, open, closed, open again
The Everest Trail that has been closed or most of 2020 has finally opened again on Monday after a confusing series of...
Everest Trail reopens, but cautiously
Nepali hikers have returned to Khumbu, but Covid-free Sherpas do not want virus in their valley
The Himalaya mourn a saintly leader
The Tengboche Rinpoche was a constant source of saintly support, presiding through periods of prosperity and disaster
Aussie paraglider to jump off Everest
Approaching 62 years old, and after retiring from a police rescue squad in 1996, Ken Hutt needed some adrenaline replacement therapy.He had...
A Himalayan High
Takashi Miyahara was Nepal’s tourism pioneer who founded Himalayan Kanko Kitatsu and built Hotel Everest View and Syangboche Airfield 50 years ago, and was...
The Nomadic Nepali
Mingma Sherpa scholarship students return from New Zealand just before Nepal shuts down to COVID-19
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