Monika Deupala

Village of the climbers

Only elderly farmers are left in a deserted Himalayan hamlet of Sherpa mountaineers

Monika Deupala

Taking the high line

Roadies-winner Saman Shrestha launches slacklining as a new adventure sport in Nepal

Monika Deupala

High on swings

Dasain pings make a comeback following the pandemic

Monika Deupala

Portrait of a photographer in rural Nepal

There is a wedding in progress in Jumla’s remote Sinja Valley, and even here guests with smartphones are taking TikTok videos and photos of...

Monika Deupala

Miracle Boy, six years after Nepal quake

Baby survived being buried under the rubble for 22 hours, but his family still struggles to cope

Monika Deupala

Himalayan red rice is red hot

Jumla’s marsi red rice earned some notoriety in 2018 after a photograph went viral on social media of Prime Minister K P Oli and Premier-in-waiting Pushpa...

Monika Deupala

Holding up the whole sky in Jumla

Of the more than 753 municipalities in Nepal, most are led by men and the deputy is required by law to be...

Monika Deupala

The fabric of democracy

https://youtu.be/NNqXnexJxfUOne sure sign that Nepal’s politics is once more heating up can be discerned these days at the workshop of Mihtila Printing...

Monika Deupala

From one emergency to another

The volunteer group RNA16 shot into the limelight in May 2020 after it handled the first coronavirus death in Nepal at a time when there was...

Monika Deupala

Long live tradition

Traditionally, the average lifespan of a Nepali used to be 40-45. Child mortality rate was high, and very few people lived to...

Monika Deupala

Monika Deupala

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