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Nepal building a highway to Everest

Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to...

A Himalayan High

Takashi Miyahara was Nepal’s tourism pioneer who founded Himalayan Kanko Kitatsu and built Hotel Everest View and Syangboche Airfield 50 years ago, and was...

More stranded tourists evacuated from Nepal

Five days after Nepal went into a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, a bulk of the tourists stranded in the Mt Everest region are...

Lifetime experience on Pikey Peak

With new roads, Edmund Hillary’s favourite vantage point is more accessible to trekkers

Too many mules on the Everest trail

The Sherpas reportedly have a saying that “there’s only one Everest,” meaning that because Everest is the highest mountain in the world...

Hillary Centenary

Sir Ed would not have liked the queues on Everest this spring

Lisa Choegyal

Highs and lows of Sir Ed

How many of us knew that Edmund Hillary had written a novel called Call Not To the Gods under the nom de plume Gary Sankar about...

Kunda Dixit

Lukla plane-chopper collision kills 3

A Summit Air plane skidded off the runway at Lukla Airport on Sunday morning, hitting two helicopters parked nearby, killing at least...

Kathmandu runway repair

Kathmandu airport will be closed for 10 hours a day just at the start of the peak trekking and mountaineering season, and...

More than luck in Lukla

Scan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport waiting days...

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