Tag: #Lukla
Articles tagged with #Lukla
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 complete the…
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…
More stranded tourists evacuated from Nepal
HIMALAYAN AIRLIFT: A Qatar Airways Airbus330 takes off from Kathmandu on Saturday with European tourists stranded after Nepal’s COVID-19…
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
Mule and mani wall. Photos: ALTON C BYERSThe Sherpas reportedly have a saying that “there’s only one Everest,” meaning that because Everest is…
Hillary Centenary
Sir Ed would not have liked the queues on Everest this spring
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…
Lukla plane-chopper collision kills 3
Photo: AIRLINEGUY/TWITTERA Summit Air plane skidded off the runway at Lukla Airport on Sunday morning, hitting two helicopters parked nearby,…
Kathmandu runway repair
Photo: EXPLORE HIMALAYAKathmandu 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
Photos: KUNDA DIXITScan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary…
On thin ice in the Khumbu
https://youtu.be/RTnxJKo97DIFor many tourists trekking to Mt Everest Base Camp this autumn, the trip will be an adventure of a lifetime. The…
Khumbu wants its share
Rabin Giri in Khumjung, Himal Khabarpatrika 3-10 June Khunde Khumjung VillageFew places even in the Nepal Himalaya have such a scenic setting as…