Nepal floods: Everest, Annapurna and Manaslu are unaffected and running normally.
The 26 August flood hit one corridor in northern Rasuwa. Langtang-region treks are paused while the access road is rebuilt — everything else is operating as usual.
Nepal News
People, history and heritage across the Himalaya and beyond.
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Culture & Heritage
A respectful overview of Nepal's cultural richness — its intertwined faiths, its mosaic of peoples, the UNESCO heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, and the great festivals and living traditions.
Culture & Heritage
Dal bhat, momo and Nepal’s real food culture
Culture & Heritage
Seven monument zones, inscribed together in 1979 as one World Heritage Site, are the cultural gateway every Nepal trek passes through.
Culture & Heritage
An ethnic group, not an occupation — the Sherpa of the Khumbu have their own language, Nyingma Buddhist faith and a homeland below Everest, far beyond the mountaineering fame that made their name a household word.
Culture & Heritage
The Kumari is chosen as a small child, kept in a Kathmandu palace and worshipped as a deity. How the selection runs, how she lives, why it is argued over.
Culture & Heritage
Gurung harvesters descend Himalayan cliffs on handmade ladders to cut combs from the world's largest honeybee, whose red 'mad honey' is prized as medicine and mild intoxicant.
Culture & Heritage
A gene that lets Sherpas thrive on thin air did not evolve in modern humans at all. It came from the Denisovans, tens of thousands of years ago.
Culture & Heritage
Aryatara Shakya was enthroned as Kathmandu’s Royal Kumari in 2025, the latest in a 17th-century tradition of worshipping a toddler as a living deity.
Culture & Heritage
The all-seeing eyes atop Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa are not decoration — every element, from the nose shaped like a Nepali numeral to the 13 gold tiers above, encodes a specific step toward enlightenment.
Culture & Heritage
Joe Brown and George Band summited Kangchenjunga on a promise never to stand on its true top. A 2025 Indian Army climb from the Nepal side broke that unwritten rule again, and reignited a decades-old fight over whether the mountain should be climbed at all.
Culture & Heritage
In 1960 Sir Edmund Hillary carried a Khumjung monastery relic to Chicago to test it. The answer was stranger than the myth, and it is still on show.
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