Training aimed at enhancing the culinary, hygiene and service skills of cooks and field staff working in Nepal's trekking sector has begun as the number of South Korean tourists visiting Nepal grows.
French-Canadian adventurer Stephane Champoussin has completed the full length of Nepal’s Great Himalayan Trail (GHT) in 143 days, crossing some of the country’s most challenging high-altitude terrain and remote settlements.
Training aimed at enhancing the culinary, hygiene and service skills of cooks and field staff working in Nepal's trekking sector has begun as the number of South Korean tourists visiting Nepal grows.
French-Canadian adventurer Stephane Champoussin has completed the full length of Nepal’s Great Himalayan Trail (GHT) in 143 days, crossing some of the country’s most challenging high-altitude terrain and remote settlements.
Sikles, a popular tourism destination in Kaski district, recorded 1,482 tourist arrivals in July, with domestic travellers continuing to dominate visitor numbers despite the monsoon season.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Nepal have begun discussions on establishing a Russian Corner at the International Mountain Museum (IMM) in Pokhara as part of efforts to strengthen cultural and mountaineering cooperation between the two countries.
The mortal remains of four climbers are now in Islamabad, Pakistan, as authorities expedite the repatriation process to send them to their home countries.
A recovery team led by renowned climber Phurba Tenzing Sherpa today successfully retrieved five bodies of climbers who went missing in an avalanche on Yalung Ri peak nine months ago.
French-Canadian adventurer Stephane Champoussin has completed the full length of Nepal’s Great Himalayan Trail (GHT) in 143 days, crossing some of the country’s most challenging high-altitude terrain and remote settlements.
Sikles, a popular tourism destination in Kaski district, recorded 1,482 tourist arrivals in July, with domestic travellers continuing to dominate visitor numbers despite the monsoon season.
The election for the 2026–28 executive committee of the Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) is set for August 14, with three panels led by Bharat Jung Pandey, Jiswan Tuladhar Shrestha and Yubika Bhandari entering the fray.
A US-manufactured drone has successfully completed high-altitude supply flights on Ama Dablam, months after Nepali authorities blocked a similar American drone from operating on Everest amid regulatory concerns and a broader US-China contest over drone technology in the Himalayas.
The Nepal government has extended fee waivers for international flights at Pokhara International Airport (PIA) and Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) in Bhairahawa by two years, to mid-September 2028, in a renewed push to draw foreign carriers to the two long-underutilized airports outside the capital.
Maheshwor Bhakta Shrestha has been appointed as Executive Chairman of Nepal Airlines Corporation, with the additional responsibility of Managing Director, as a Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday at Singhadurbar decided.
The Airlines Operators Association of Nepal (AOAN) and the Aeronautical Society of Nepal (AeSN) have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance the unified development, safety, and modernisation of Nepal's aviation sector, the two organisations announced.
Seventy volunteers removed 55 sacks of waste from trekking routes around Pisang in Manang during a one-day cleanup campaign, covering ground from Swargadwari Bridge to Ngoro Danda and from Upper Pisang to the Pisang-Ghyaru Bridge.
A wildlife survey in the Manang Ngisyang Block has found the Blue Sheep, locally known as Naur, population to be healthy and stable, a result conservationists say reflects sustained habitat protection efforts in the Annapurna Conservation Area.
The Annapurna Conservation Area Project's Unit Conservation Office in Manang has completed a three-day cleanup campaign along one of Nepal's most popular trekking routes, collecting around 75 sacks of waste from the trail between Tanki Manang and Thorong La Pass.
As the dust settles on the busiest climbing season Mt Everest has ever seen, the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) has wrapped up its Spring 2026 cleanup campaign with a staggering 90,329 kg of waste hauled off the world's highest mountain, and a clear signal that Everest rangers will remain at the centre of its strategy going forward.
Hundreds of mountaineers, family members, friends and well-wishers gathered in Kathmandu on Thursday to pay their final respects to veteran Nepali mountain guide Pur Bahadur "Yukta" Gurung, whose body was brought home from Pakistan a week after he was killed in the deadly Broad Peak avalanche.
Nima Sherpa, a promising Nepali high-altitude mountaineer who rose from a humble farming family in Sankhuwasabha to scale some of the world's highest peaks, was among the 10 climbers killed in the devastating Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan on July 30.
Here is a brief profile of renowned climbers who put their lives at risk while retrieving the bodies of climbers from the treacherous slopes of Broad Peak on August 5.
Visiting United States Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Sergio Gor on Friday officially unveiled the “Ultra X Gen 2” American cargo drone built by Freefly Systems at Everest Base Camp.
The installation of the world’s highest automatic weather station had made headlines globally in 2022, but it turned out to be rubbish in just four years.
On the occasion of World Protein Day, health experts and officials in Nepal are calling on the public to ignore persistent myths about the poultry industry and recognize chicken and eggs as safe, affordable, and vital sources of protein.
The US Nepal Climbers Association (USNCA), a New York-based organisation, held a memorial and candle-lighting ceremony in tribute to mountaineers who lost their lives during the Broad Peak (8,047m) expedition in Pakistan, according to the association.
Nepali scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, engineers and healthcare professionals from across the United States convened in Austin, Texas on July 18 and 19 for the NRNA Knowledge Convention 2026, organised by the Science, Technology and Innovation Committee of the Non-Resident Nepali Association USA.
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