Tag: Nepal
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Nepal’s disaster looms in Mont Blanc’s icy shadow
For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe’s highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the ... -
Nepal holds a day of mourning after floods kill at least 1,300 people
Nepal held a day of mourning yesterday to remember those killed in the Aug. 26 floods, with flags lowered at government offices and families concluding mourning ... -
Nepal flood survivor’s family relieved after days of anxious waiting
After days of waiting anxiously, Lu Haitao’s family could finally breathe a sigh of relief when the Chinese man was rescued from a tunnel in Nepal where devastating ... -
Trading food for medicine and crossing the river by zip line
Some survivors sheltering in relief camps after deadly floods in Nepal were struggling yesterday to obtain essential medicines and cash, even as authorities provided food and ... -
Over 1,300 are missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods
Rescue teams searched yesterday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several ... -
Tibetan studies conference is canceled in Nepal at the request of officials
A conference on Tibetan studies scheduled to be held this month in Nepal was called off at the request of government officials who gave no reason ... -
Mount Everest season opens late, with climbers undeterred by huge ice block and high travel costs
An unstable ice block dangerously hanging over the key trail on Mount Everest, high travel costs and increased permit fees haven’t deterred hundreds of climbers from attempting ... -
Voting peaceful in first election since September youth-led protests
Voting was peaceful Thursday in Nepal’s first nationwide election since a violent, youth-led uprising forced the government from power in September. Security forces patrolled streets and guarded polling ... -
Gen Z activists are frustrated with the leaders they brought to power
Mukesh Awasti was all set to leave for Australia to pursue a degree in civil engineering on a sunny day in September, but instead he joined ... -
New prime minister urges calm after deadly protests
Nepal’s new prime minister took office yesterday and “urged calm and cooperation to rebuild” the Himalayan nation after days of violent protests last week left at ... -
Behind deadly protests over social media ban lies anger over corruption
Nepal’s government responded to escalating violent protests over a ban on popular social media platforms with deadly force. The public outrage over the ban and the ... -
Youngest female climber to scale 14 tallest peaks calls for novices to be regulated
A British mountaineer who set the record as the youngest female to climb all the 14 tallest mountains in the world said yesterday that inexperienced climbers ... -
Bodies of five Russian climbers who died on a Nepal peak have been retrieved
The bodies of five Russian mountaineers who died on the world’s seventh-highest peak were retrieved from the mountain and flown to Kathmandu. The bodies were picked ... -
A record-setting teen climber returns home to a hero’s welcome
A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal yesterday to a hero’s welcome. Nima ... -
Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely to take years
The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who ... -
Protests drove king off the throne 16 years ago. Now, protests are trying to bring him back
Sixteen years ago, mass protests in Nepal forced then-King Gyanendra Shah to give up the throne and clear the way for a republic. Now, a new ... -
Aid trickles in to Nepal villages struck by earthquake as survivors salvage belongings from rubble
Aid trickled in to villages yesterday in Nepal’s northwest mountains flattened by a strong earthquake over the weekend as villagers searched through the rubble of their ... -
Authorities to send data recorder from crash to France
Nepalese authorities yesterday began returning to families the bodies of victims of a flight that crashed Sunday, and said they were sending the aircraft’s data recorder ... -
68 confirmed dead after plane crashes in Pokhara
A plane crash has killed at least 68 people, according to Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority. A regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge ... -
Nepal | Gov’t vows new rules after worst trekking disaster
Nepal yesterday said it will introduce new rules, improve weather forecasts and better monitor the movement of trekkers after the Himalayan country’s worst hiking disaster left ... -
Nepal | Avalanche, blizzard kill 12 in mountains
An avalanche and blizzard in Nepal’s mountainous north have killed 12 people, including foreign trekkers, officials said yesterday as weather conditions improved. An avalanche yesterday buried ... -
NEPAL | ‘No chance’ of finding 159 landslide victims
There is no chance of finding any of the more than 150 people who are believed to have been buried by a massive landslide in northern Nepal, ... -
NEPAL | Gov’t to allow cremation of Tibetan Buddhist monk
The body of a revered Tibetan Buddhist monk can now be cremated at his monastery in the hills outside Nepal’s capital, the government said yesterday after ...
