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No TikTok: Sacred sites in Nepal start to ban the video-sharing app

Sacred sites in Nepal have started to ban TikTok as the social media app gains popularity in the country.

27/10/2022

Green News

The tallest mountain in the world is melting: How can we save Everest?

Around 1,500 people visit the Everest base camp every year but a melting glacier is now making it unsafe.

20/06/2022

Travel News

Rescuers pull 16 bodies from plane wreckage in Nepal mountains

The Tara Air plane lost contact with airport towers at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu on Sunday while flying into an area of deep river gorges.

30/05/2022

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South African paraglider makes first legal flight off Everest

A South African paraglider has made the first legal flight off Mount Everest, an expedition organiser said Tuesday, opening doors for "climb and fly" adventurers on the world's highest mountain.

24/05/2022

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Masked dancers mark Hindu festival in Nepal

Performers masked as various Hindu deities dance to celebrate Naradevi Swetkali Parba, a festival organised every 12 years in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, in the belief it will help overcome evil and establish peace and security.

29/03/2022

Scenes

Meet the Nepali teenagers raising awareness of human trafficking

In partnership with Media City

"If I would have been trafficked, I have no clue how my life would be now. I still fear when I think of what happened. Where would I be now?"

07/03/2022

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Nepal farmers jump into muddy fields to celebrate rice festival

Locals and farmers in Nepal celebrate "National Paddy Day", a festival with songs, dances, rice wine and fun in the muddy paddy fields.

01/07/2021

Travel News

Record-breaking female climber stranded in Nepal amid COVID crisis

Tsang Yin-Hung climbed Mount Everest in 25 hours and 50 minutes last month.

22/06/2021

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Rescuers at deadly Nepal flood as waters swirl through houses

Army rescuers are deployed to a flooded area in Nepal after a river burst during heavy monsoon rains.

17/06/2021

Nepal

Austrian climbing guide says at least 100 COVID-19 cases on Everest

Lukas Furtenbach of Austria is the only prominent outfitter to halt Everest expeditions due to virus fears

22/05/2021

Nepal

Swiss and American climbers become first to die on Everest this year

The two men sadly passed away while trying to summit the world's highest mountain.

13/05/2021

Travel News

Why is Nepal trying to ban women from travelling?

The Nepali government has proposed a new law which would mean women needing permission to travel abroad.

18/02/2021

Travel News

Nepal reopens to mountaineers after seven month lockdown

Mountaineers can once again scale the peaks of Nepal's Himalayas. The country has opened its borders after a seven month lockdown.

04/11/2020

Nepal

Ang Rita, first person to climb Everest 10 times, dies aged 72

The Nepalese Sherpa guide received international fame after climbing Mount Everest for the tenth time 1996.

22/09/2020

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Nepal pride rally calls for better LGBT rights

Hundreds of people gathered in Nepal's capital on Friday for the annual gay pride parade.

16/08/2019

Green News

The environmental cost of climbing Mount Everest

The Nepalese government is considering imposing tough new measures against mountaineers spoiling the peak.

03/07/2019

Nepal

Himalayan glaciers melting at alarming rate, spy satellite data shows

Satellite data shows that the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting has doubled over the past two decades. That ice is not being replaced, and the retreat of these glaciers threatens water supplies for hundreds of millions of people in Asia.

20/06/2019

World

Deaths on Everest's summit blamed on commercialisation of expedition

Yet another climber has died on Mount Everest, bringing the total deaths on the mountain to 13 in 2019 alone. Overcrowding has been reported near the summit and mountaineers suggest that the growing commercialisation of expeditions, the lack of experience and bad weather contribute to the problem.

28/05/2019

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Forming an orderly queue...on Mount Everest

Tendi Sherpa filmed the video on Thursday, May 23, showing the Mountaineers at the Hillary Pass, which is an almost vertical rock formation below the peak.

28/05/2019

Nepal

American climber dies on descent from summit of Mount Everest

The number of dead or missing mountaineers on the world's highest mountain is now at nine on the Nepali side during the current climbing season.

27/05/2019

Nepal

Before fatal descent, British climber wrote he feared Everest overcrowding could prove deadly

Robin Haynes Fisher wrote on Instagram last week that he had delayed his trek to the Himalayan summit in hopes of smaller crowds.

27/05/2019

Nepal

Deaths of Irish and British climbers bring Mount Everest toll to 10

It came during a season that has been plagued by bad weather and overcrowding on the peak.

25/05/2019

Nepal

Indian army claims to have found Yeti 'footprints', prompting mockery

For centuries mountaineers and researchers have been searching for the Yeti so could his "footprints" been found by the Indian army?

30/04/2019

Nepal

Flood concerns over Everest's picturesque glacial lakes

Hundreds of these lakes have appeared out of nowhere in the Himalayas in recent decades. A 2014 survey found one quarter of Nepal's glaciers shrunk between 1977 and 2010, leaving behind 1,466 lakes.

12/12/2018

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Austrian climber David Lama completes first solo climb of Lunang Ri

Austrian climber David Lama has completed the first solo climb of Lunang Ri in Nepal.

28/11/2018

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Alpinist returns from the first ever ascent of Himalayan Lunag Ri peak

Austrian alpinist David Lama has safely returned from the first ever ascent of Lunag Ri (6907M) peak in the Himalaya in an epic solo effort

27/11/2018