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Mt Everest (Pvt) Ltd

A century after the first attempt to climb the world’s highest mountain, it is not so lonely at the top

Vishad Raj Onta

Stories of Nepal’s summiteers

Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest begins in Spring 2019. Nepal’s mountaineering has just rebounded from the deadly avalanches...

Ashish Dhakal

Edinburgh store comes full circle to Nepal

In the heart of Edinburgh near the Church of St John the Evangelist is One World Shop, a modest-looking store that sells goods from all over the...

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...

Everest Trail repaired during pandemic

The communities along the Everest Trail have been using the past nine months of the Covid-19 slump in tourism to clean up...

TASTE OF NEPAL

S pecial Nepali Times Holiday Edition celebrates Nepal’s culinary heritage. Our reporters fan out across the country to sample well-known and obscure delicacies that...

Exploring Nepal’s culinary diversity

Dulled by dal bhat? There is more to Nepali cuisine than meets the eye.

Highs and lows of Sir Ed

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...

Kunda Dixit

The last of the first

In 1952, when a Swiss expedition camped out at Namche Bazar on its way to climb the world’s highest mountain, Kancha Sherpa was impressed with the...

Not just another book on Everest

It is perfect that Everest: Reflections on the Solu Khumbu should come out this year, the centenary of Edmund Hillary’s birth. The...

Kunda Dixit