Two years ago, as he arrived to check a mountain trout fishing centre he owned near the Tibetan border, Gyanendra Kachhapati ...

Tso Rolpa glacial lake at 4,580m has grown seven times in size in the past 60 years due to global heating. Photo: RASTRARAJ BHANDARI A new report out this week warns that hundreds of glacial lakes in ...

KATHMANDU: Though it appears to be a small country in the globe, Nepal boasts of more than 5,300 lakes, if a recent study of researchers is to be believed. The study was conducted by the researchers ...

A view of the project from across the Langtang Valley showing the receding Langtang Lirung Glacier, and the location of the intake, penstock and powerhouse. There is a drop of 300m, and the turbines ...

Kinjum Sherpa is intimately connected to the high Himalayan landscape in north-east Nepal that she calls home. While she looks after a herd of yaks, her adult children work as climbing guides on peaks ...

(AP) – Some major floods unleashed in Nepal when mountain lakes fed by melting glaciers burst their banks: September 1977: An outburst from Nare Lake, below Mount Ama Dablam, kills three people and ...

Following in the footsteps of British explorer Lewis Gordon Pugh who completed a 1km swim on Mount Everest and set the record for the world’s highest altitude swim. Every year, thousands of tourists ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. -- Two Detroit Lakes doctors are back home after a two-week trip to Nepal that they will likely never forget. Family Practice Physician Dr. Pankaj Timsina and Podiatric Surgeon Dr ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. – Two Detroit Lakes doctors are back home after a two-week trip to Nepal that they will likely never forget. Family practice physician Dr. Pankaj Timsina and podiatric surgeon Dr.