A ten-year-old football fan from Kathmandu has become one of Nepal's youngest ambassadors at the FIFA World Cup 2026, travelling 8,500 miles to Dallas to watch Argentina play live — and taking Nepal's flag and a Visit Nepal banner along for the ride.
The spring climbing season on Nepal's mountains may be over, but for hundreds of Nepali Sherpa guides and high-altitude workers, the work is far from done.
The New York State Assembly has issued a formal proclamation honouring Urgen Sherpa, a Nepali community organiser, Buddhist scholar and advocate, for more than two decades of service to Himalayan and immigrant communities in New York City.