Everest 70 years on
The lives and legacy of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary
Lisa Choegyal
The good doctor
My first home in Kathmandu was a glass A-frame house nestled in a lychee and mango orchard, sheltered by a magnificent old...
The Queen is Dead, Long Live the King
It is Indra Jatra in Basantapur but in Britain, the Queen is dead. Through an early September cloudburst we navigate the uneven...
A short walk up the Panjshir
Kids playing on rusted tanks abandoned by the retreating Russians, war debris comfortably incorporated into stone walls to contain sheep and goats,...
The good doctor
I had an appointment with Rishi Ram Koirala the day before he suffered his fatal heart attack. Last week Nepal has lost...
Kathmandu’s other nightlife
“Does it have a tail?”“I can’t see because it's sitting on it.”“What about its eyes and coat?”“Bright and black eyes with spikey...
How Thukten Phillip Sherpa got his name
The Sherpa leader and guardian of the yeti scalp, Konjo Chumbi, and his young wife were hurrying down from Khumjung on the Sagarmatha trail...
Panoramic encyclopaedia of the Himalaya
Both a soaring celebration and a sacramental offering to the highest mountain range in the world, everything you ever wanted to know...
Niranjan Koirala, 73
It was a glowing autumn afternoon in Bhaktapur with the sun warming the terracotta roof tiles and moulded brick facades. Keanu Reeves...
The vagaries of fate
In her last column, Lisa Choegyal takes us on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the Soviet days
