It’s been nearly two years since one of Nepal’s major fault lines sparked the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed at least 8,000 lives and many of the Himalayan nation’s historic monuments. Yet the ...

Nepal has trained its first cohort of deaf trekking guides, with four women and 21 men receiving instruction ranging from ...

KATHMANDU, April 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Nepali labourer Om Bahadur Purja sprained his leg in his remote village he would have faced a four-hour trek to the nearest medical centre - but ...

This week, The Himalayan Database has updated its list of spring 2025 summits in Nepal. We examine the current trends.

Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region's summits, ...

A report published in February last year, titled “The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Change, Sustainability and People” was a wake up call for the international community. It warned that the ...

A study predicts that greenhouse gas emissions could significantly increase extreme floods in Nepal's Central Himalayas by up ...

High in the Himalayas, chaos defined this autumn climbing season. More than three weeks before the climbing season was set to end, Nepali authorities issued repeated alerts urging tourists to descend ...

Rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as ...

Last month, Nepal launched its first satellite, NepaliSat-1 into the orbit, joining other South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in owning a national satellite.

"By showing the Chinese films in Nepal, we can witness Chinese culture and development," said KP Pathak, a renowned Nepalese filmmaker and chairman of Nepal International Film Festival. "Such events ...

“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no ‘meaning,’ they are meaning; the mountains are. The ...