Topic: Nepal

Everest region bans single-use plastic

Everest region bans single-use plastic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 23 07:35 AM

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Single-use plastics have been banned in the Everest region to reduce the vast amounts of waste left by trekkers and mountaineers, Nepali authorities said Thursday. Read more »

Monsoon rains wreak flood havoc across South Asia

Monsoon rains wreak flood havoc across South Asia

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 17 07:06 AM

Survivors scrambled for higher ground as torrential monsoon rains swept away homes and triggered landslides across South Asia Tuesday, with millions of people affected and at least 180 dead, officials said.   Read more »

Himalayan glaciers melting far faster this century - study

Himalayan glaciers melting far faster this century - study

Matthew Green, Reuters
Posted at Jun 20 06:13 AM

LONDON, United Kingdom—Himalayan glaciers have been melting twice as fast since the start of this century, underscoring the threat the climate crisis poses to water supplies for hundreds of millions of people across Asia, according to a study published on Wednesday. Read more »

American climber dies on descent from summit of Mount Everest

American climber dies on descent from summit of Mount Everest

Gopal Sharma, Reuters
Posted at May 28 12:59 PM

Christopher John Kulish, 61, scaled the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) peak from the normal Southeast Ridge route in the morning but died suddenly at South Col after descending from the summit, Mira Acharya, a Nepal tourism department official said.   Read more »

4 die on crowded slopes of Mount Everest

4 die on crowded slopes of Mount Everest

Gopal Sharma, Reuters
Posted at May 24 11:37 PM

KATHMANDU - Three Indian climbers and one Nepali guide died on Mount Everest in the past couple of days, taking to seven the total number killed or missing on the world's highest mountain in this year's climbing season, Nepali officials said on Friday.   Read more »

Nepal earthquake 4 years later

Nepal earthquake 4 years later

Prakash Mathema, AFP
Posted at Apr 25 08:23 PM

A Nepali man walks in an alley flanked by houses that were damaged by the 2015 earthquake, on the fourth anniversary of the disaster in Kathmandu on Thursday. Read more »

Life after death: Sherpa widows eye Everest to fight taboo

Life after death: Sherpa widows eye Everest to fight taboo

Annie Banerji and Gopal Sharma, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Apr 22 11:04 AM

KATHMANDU - Two Nepali Sherpa women hope to conquer Mount Everest next month, finishing off the job their husbands started in a bid to empower fellow widows and prove there is life after death. Read more »

Nepal bans online game PUBG

Nepal bans online game PUBG

Kyodo News
Posted at Apr 12 12:56 PM

KATHMANDU - Nepal on Thursday banned popular South Korean online game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, also known as PUBG, citing its negative impact on mental health of players because of its violent content and addictive nature, officials said. Read more »

Storm aftermath

Storm aftermath

Navesh Chitrakar, Reuters
Posted at Apr 02 08:05 PM

A woman cooks food at her house damaged by a storm in Bara district, Nepal on Tuesday. Read more »

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