Back to Manang after 43 years
The Prague Spring democracy uprising had just been crushed by Soviet troops in 1968, and many Czechoslovaks fled the country. Photographer Zdeněk...
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More rain and snow forecast for Nepal
Unseasonal late monsoon rains across Nepal are causing floods, damaging paddy fields ready for harvest, and early snowfall in the Himalaya has...
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...
A parliamentarian’s apple grove
https://youtu.be/etwE_snoB7AWhile Nepal’s Members of Parliament are squabbling among themselves chasing contracts and lobbying for ministerships in Kathmandu, Polden Chopang Gurung is busy tending to...
Himalayan floods a sign of worse to come
Nepal’s trans-Himalayan district of Manang is located in the rain-shadow, and is a high altitude desert. Its average annual rainfall is barely...
Rain ends 4-month Nepal drought
After suffering a four-month drought since the end of the monsoon last year, a westerly front finally dumped snow in the higher...
Wildfires ravage Nepal mountains
A three month drought in central and eastern Nepal has sparked wildfires across the Himalaya which has shrouded the mountains in smoke, adding to...
Hiking in the Himalaya during Covid-19?
Although the Nepal government is allowing foreign trekkers to fly to Kathmandu from 17 October, some mountain districts along the trekking trails...
Forests replace glaciers in the Himalaya
[caption id="attachment_54080" align="alignnone" width="900"] Panoramic view of Manang Village and the Gangapurna and Annapurna III Glaciers that have retreated dramatically since 1980....
New High Way to Dolpo
... is not good news for trekkers
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