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Nepal wants to limit age for Everest after 85-year-old dies
Family and supporters on Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, while officials stressed the need to limit the age for such a daunting physical challenge. The death of Min Bahadur Sherchan has revived...
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Hiker rescued after 47 days in Nepal survived on salt, water
After spending 47 days stranded on a mountain in Nepal, surviving on salt and water, a Taiwanese man was rescued Wednesday but his girlfriend had died three days earlier.
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At soaring rate, Nepalis seeking jobs abroad come home dead
“The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015.” By Martha Mendoza.
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Nepalese teenager dies after being banished to shed for menstruating
A 15-year-old girl in western Nepal suffocated to death after being forced to stay in a poorly ventilated shed because she was menstruating, in an age-old Hindu practice banned over a decade ago, police said on Tuesday. Roshani Tiruwa’s body was discovered by her father early on Sunday in mud-and-stone hut in Gajra village in Achham district, 440km (275 miles) west of Kathmandu.
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China Wants to Build Hotels on Everest
A plan for a drive-up climbing center on the North side of the mountain also includes the mainstays of a modern resort: lodging, restaurants, and a museum. Is this the future of the world’s highest peak? By Grayson Schaffer.
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Woman Trying to Prove ‘Vegans Can Do Anything’ Dies on Mount Everest
An Australian woman who set out to climb Mount Everest to prove that “vegans can do anything” died Saturday after developing altitude sickness. Maria Strydom, 34, had reached the final camp from the summit before she and her husband, Robert Gropel, both began suffering from high-altitude pulmonary edema, which caused fluid to build up in Strydom’s brain, the Washington Post reports.
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In pictures: The last nomadic people of Nepal
The Raute are the last nomadic people of Nepal. Now numbering fewer than 150, they live in the forests of Accham's middle hills, where photographer Andrew Newey caught up with them.
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Increased education and a law enforcement crackdown has helped the tiny nation keep its rhinos safe for 730 days in a row
It may be just another Monday for most of us, but today is a big day for the rhinos of Nepal, marking two years since the last Indian rhinoceros was killed in the mountainous nation. “It is now 730 days since a poacher last killed a rhino in Nepal: a truly remarkable achievement by the government,” Anil Manandhar, World Wildlife Fund representative inthe country says in a press release. “Nepal has demonstrated real conservation leadership and an effective anti-poaching ...
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Avalanche fears over unauthorised Everest helicopter flights
Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say. Sherpas have expressed concerns that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches. Tourist flights are not allowed to places above Base Camp which is at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17,600ft). But helicopter companies say they only overfly sights like the Khumbu Icefall and their flights are allowed.
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Sherpa: Norbu Tenzing on the Everest ‘circus’ and the inevitability of another disaster
Film-maker Jennifer Peedom and the son of history’s most famous Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, on how his people are stuck between a rock and a hard place. By Luke Buckmaster.
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Radical Tantra
Westerners tend to think Tantra is only about sex. Exploring its origins in Kathmandu, Isabella Tree found a philosophy more revolutionary than she had imagined.
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Nepal climbers face ruin after quake, blockade hits Everest industry
Phurba Tashi Sherpa, the most accomplished high-altitude climber in history, holds a bucket and crowbar as he claws through the rubble of his home seven months after Nepal's earthquake shattered the country... By Andrew MacAskill.
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Riding High
The trouble with mountain biking in Nepal is that you’re surrounded by distractions. Fields of bright orange marigolds and golden mustard flowers look like a sunset splashed across the earth. Chubby-cheeked babies bathing in buckets of water cause my second near tumble. Then there is the sight of the campsites sheltering people still without homes... By Jen Murphy.
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Clinic in the Clouds
Medics, climbers, and Zen Buddhists bring basic care to the Himalayas. By Rebecca Solnit.
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Lakes are forming on top of Mount Everest’s glaciers
Pools of meltwater are coalescing into lakes on Mount Everest’s debris-strewn Khumbu Glacier. The accumulation of water makes the ice melt even more quickly. By Sarah Kaplan.
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An Oral History of Langtang, the Valley Destroyed by the Nepal Earthquake
When the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, the world watched as parts of Kathmandu were reduced to rubble. But just fifty miles north, in a valley called Langtang, the shaking unleashed an avalanche that buried a village and killed hundreds. Here, the survivors speak for the first time. By Anna Callaghan and Rabi Thapa.
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The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body
Mount Everest is home to more than 200 bodies. Rachel Nuwer investigates the sad and little-known story behind its most prominent resident, ‘Green Boots’.
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The ebb and flow of Kathmandu
Finding intimacy and beauty in a colourful, chaotic city.
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Banished: Why menstruation can mean exile
Believed to be impure, some menstruating women in Nepal are forced from their homes - with sometimes deadly consequences.
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Festival where 500,000 animals are decapitated 'to please goddess' is called off [Warning: Graphic Content]
A horrifying festival where 500,000 innocent animals were decapitated by Hindu worshippers has been cancelled – and will never take place again. Half a million animals were killed – many decapitated – at the Gadhimai festival in Nepal in 2009, and 250,000 in 2014. Buffalo, goats and chickens were killed by worshippers to appease a Hindu goddess, in the world’s largest display of animal sacrifice.
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