Nepal

More than 1,500 people are missing, including visitors from India, Malaysia, Australia, UK, US, Singapore

Running its own programmes allows the charity to deliver more impact to beneficiaries

[KATHMANDU] Nepal’s mountains including Everest have long drawn climbers from across the world, but a growing community is exploring hidden summits promising solitude and the chance to be first to the top.

Tracing the history of the Kathmandu Valley through the circle, beyond the temples

There has been dissatisfaction over political instability, corruption and slow economic development

An epiphany prompted him to uproot from Europe to the Himalayas, but keeping him there are his family’s unorthodox beginnings in hospitality

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-coloured street in Nepal’s Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction.

Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet’s 8,027-metre-high Shisha Pangma on October 9

Sixty-year-old British adventurer Neil Laughton has set a new record for the highest-altitude cycle ride after pedalling a fold-up bike on top of a 7,246-metre Nepalese peak.