Tag: #himalayas
Articles tagged with #himalayas
Nepal’s star shines in Locarno
For Thinley Lhamo, winning the best acting award for Shambhala has been a journey of self-discovery
Medication to Meditation in the Mountains
Pokhara is now a yoga tourism hub, but needs more international promotion
Giving yarsagumba a chance for regrowth
A typical landscape of yarsa, alpine meadow above treeline and below snowline. Pictured here is Manang’s Chuli Peak. All photos: ACHYUT TIWARIA…
Trekking in Nepal is open for business
All photos courtesy of PEMBA NORBU SHERPATill two years ago, Pemba Norbu Sherpa was a happy-go-lucky trekking guide from Phakding on the Everest…
We’ve seen fire, and we’ve seen rain
Prolonged winter drought caused nationwide wildfires in Nepal, and this was followed by destructive floods at the start of the monsoon. Photos:…
Nepal’s first hydropower from a glacial lake
Turning global warming into opportunity, melting Himalayan glacier is harnessed for electricity
DANGER: Nepal’s glacial lakes are filling up
Among all the other disasters we have to be prepared for are glacial lake outburst floods
Annapurna Dhaulagiri double-take
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe Nepal Himalaya has seen a spurt in expeditions this spring, largely because of the backlog of the past years, and possibly…
Fire and ice
Fresh snow blown off the tops of Kang Nachugo and Tsubugo in Rolwaling Himal is back-lit by the rising sun. Kathmandu photos by Kunda…
Alarm bells from Nanda Devi
A weir built 20 years ago reduced the level of the water by 3m in the Tso Rolpa glacial lake in Nepal, but it needs to go down by 20m to reduce…
More Himalayan tsunamis
What remains of the Dhauliganga hydropower project in Chamoli district of India’s Uttarakhand state after Sunday’s deadly glacial flood. Photo:…
Right climate for India-China talks on climate change
The India-China border flashpoints in the Himalaya are hotspots in more ways than one. The latest clashes threaten to derail cooperation on…
Ama Khando: a different road trip film from Nepal
Road-trips are not an established genre in Nepali films, like romance, action or comedy even though they may have all these elements. But in the…
Global heating melts mountains
Mount Cho Oyu (8,188m) and Nepal's longest glacier, The Ngozumba, seen from a mountain sightseeing flight on Yeti Airlines this week. Photo:…
Nepal must prepare for climate migration
HIGH AND DRY: A village in Mustang is one of the increasing number of settlements that have been abandoned because of water shortage caused by…
Women in climate hot spots face challenges adapting
SHOULDERING THE BURDEN: The workload for women like Nanimaya Dhungana in Kavre (Above) may have increased because of the climate crisis. Photo:…
MIGRATION MITIGATION
Photo: GOPEN RAIIn the strict legalese that the United Nations is accustomed to, the Madrid Climate Summit is called the 25th Conference of the…
The Water Emergency
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed in 1992 to deal with the increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon…
The Lumba Sumba Passage
Trekking is evolving fast on once remote east Nepal routes
The superfoods of the Andes and the Himalaya
Amaranth cultivation in Jumla district in NepalPhotos: LI-BIRDThe nutritious grain that mountain peoples of the Americas and high Asia…
Everest fights back
(against garbage and bad press)
Everest Postmortem
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIEver since the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India determined that the world’s tallest mountain was Peak XV located on…
Living below Nepal’s melting mountains
Gabions above Chukung with the summit of Lhotse peeking through the clouds last month. All photos: ALTON C BYERSIn an example of local people…
Highs and lows of Sir Ed
Courtesy of Auckland War Memorial MuseumHow many of us knew that Edmund Hillary had written a novel called Call Not To the Gods under the nom de…