Tag: #Lisa Choegyal
Articles tagged with #Lisa Choegyal
A short walk up the Panjshir
Mujahideen guides took us to the northernmost part of the Panjshir Valley. All photos: LISA CHOEGYALKids playing on rusted tanks abandoned by…
The vagaries of fate
In her last column, Lisa Choegyal takes us on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the Soviet days
A postcard from Jan Morris 1926-2020
Remembering the last surviving foreign member of the first expedition to climb Mt Everest in 1953
Once in a Halloween Blue Moon in Kathmandu
Unlike in the West, people of the Himalaya are totally at ease with the mystery of their lunar calendar
Speaking for elephants
Photo: BIKRAM RAILisa Choegyal’s column ‘The Elephant Dilemma’, 4 October 2020 elicited many comments from readers, some of which are excerpted…
Father Moran and Nepal's Jesuits
Educator and ham radio enthusiast, 9N1MM was the country's first window into the modern world
Nepal’s tourism now has to re-start from zero
As Covid-19 wrecks the industry, a nostalgic look back at Boris Lissanevitch and his Royal Hotel
Sorting through history for the Yeti
Whether it exists or not, this mythical monster of Himalayan folklore is Nepal’s top tourist attraction
The wild and wonderful Bill Gavin, 1936-2020
From a life of Himalayan white water rafting, to motors, music and movies
The strangest Anzac Day ever
Marking the WWI anniversary in Kathmandu through earthquakes and lockdowns
Losing a colleague to COVID-19
The coronavirus fells the consummate consultant Oliver Bennett 1943-2020
Aussies and Kiwis homeward bound from Nepal
The saga of getting back home down under after Nepal suspended all international flights
The Nomadic Nepali
Mingma Sherpa scholarship students return from New Zealand just before Nepal shuts down to COVID-19
Remembering Des-la at Shangri~la
1,000 recollections of Desmond Doig at the hotel’s Shambala Garden that he designed in Kathmandu
‘Mainly fine throughout the kingdom’
Life and times of Nepal through the Nepali Times
The Climate Smart Great Himalayan Trek
It has been eight years since a group of hikers and a dog walked across Nepal to promote tourism and highlight the climate crisis
No lovelier spot than Kakani
The plot was gifted to the British envoy by the Ranas in the 19th century as a country retreat
Writing about writing
Learning the craft in the fertile spiritual atmosphere of the Himalayan Writers Workshop
The trips before TripAdvisor
Media promotion and press freedom were done differently then
Champions of Nepal’s conservation movement
Nepal’s royals were successful in saving the country’s wildlife, but not its monarchy
Dad’s deception
How an international wedding ceremony was saved by translation
The religion of rugby
The 20-nation 2019 Rugby World Cup will kick off in Japan next month, but many in Nepal will not know it
A working mother’s guilt
I like to consider myself an exemplary parent, but probably all mothers think that
Chitlang, Chitwan and Children
Finding the Rana-era elephant stables in Bhimphedi in between changing nappies