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, ...

Twenty years ago, in December 2000, a group of four anthropologists and historians at the University of Cambridge embarked on a project to develop new methods for collecting, protecting, and ...

Thai hotel operator Centara Hotels & Resorts marked its debut in Nepal with the opening of the Himalayan Hideaway Resort ...

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 ...

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 ...

Owner Gurung, who also owns Dragon Asian Grocery around the corner on Brittain Road, purchased Dragon Restaurant and Bar in ...

If there is one book you must set aside, either for new year holiday reading or as a Christmas gift to a fellow traveller, it would be Tales from the Himalaya by the British climber-turned-trekker ...

Days later, Foreign Secretary Sewa Lamsal left for Kunming, China, to deliver the keynote address and hold bilateral meetings with high-level officials at the fifth China-South Asia Cooperation Forum.

Eight Indian tourists, including four children, died Tuesday after they were found unconscious in a hotel room at a mountain resort in Nepal’s Himalayas, officials said. The group was transported by ...

Years ago, I undertook the journey from Beijing to Delhi by land, with three legs. The first involved a quick one by trains and buses from Beijing to Lhasa. This was followed by two longer ones: by ...