May 2018
SO FAR SO GOOD
Past Everest anniversaries
As the 65th year of the first ascent approaches, the mystery of a specially blended Chivas Regal is solved YO […]
May 25, 2018
The Kathmandu crowd
The Valley in the1970s was a haven for biologists, ethnologists and anthropologists TONI HAGEN It still stands, a rather plain […]
May 11, 2018
April 2018
Survival survivors
Through their enthusiastic lenses, nature film-makers introduced Nepal to a global audience Götz Dieter Plage (above) drove into our lives […]
April 27, 2018
Adventurers in a vanishing land
The world, and Nepal, have changed since the days of Wilfred Thesiger and Freya Stark Dame Freya Stark looked around […]
April 13, 2018
March 2018
Infectious enthusiasm for travel
Typhoid is just another part of Nepal’s adventure tourism package There is never a good moment to contract typhoid, and […]
March 30, 2018
Wintering in Mongolia
Photos: Lisa Choegyal “I don’t think we get many tourists at this time of year.” The Mongolian airline official […]
March 15, 2018
SO FAR SO GOOD
Hillary’s 49th day
High on the Valley rim I was walking through rough grass in the mountaineers’ memorial park at Kakani, in search […]
March 5, 2018
SO FAR SO GOOD
Elizabeth Hawley 1923-2018
Photo: Colin MonteathElizabeth Hawley with her biography by Bernadette McDonald ‘I’ll Call You in Kathmandu’. Elizabeth Hawley, who died in […]
March 5, 2018