“For the summit, it is not just not your ability, team work, I think luck is very important,” said Yin-hung.

I had had a pampered upbringing. Even when I lost my mother at the age of ten, I was never made to feel her absence because my sisters and brother took good care of me.

Himani Mishra writes on how stepping in to sort a traffic jam on a work trip to Nepal brought her fame.

This was my second encounter with the world as I decided to explore the city, which is famous for its scenic beauty and especially, adventures. Though this wasn’t a fully solo journey as I visited Nepal with my parents, a one-day solo experience of Sarangkot was thrilling.

For the coming several weeks they have the responsibility of going for a weekly clean up and tap waste in many bottles. Once the target of 500 bottles will be met, I promised to build a small compound circulating their school field so that their rubber balls and footballs do not go overboard any longer.

Nepal’s female DJs say they encounter teasing, obscene gestures and unwanted touching from the crowds but they’re not quitting.

“When you complete a mission and save someone’s life … you get goosebumps,” says Priya Adhikari, Nepal’s only female rescue helicopter pilot.

Welcome to the country of mountains! Pure air, negligible industrial pollution and dignified people, that’s how I define Nepal. The great Himalayas form the boundary of the country alongside its China border and the world’s highest peak Mount Everest too attracts the interest of mountaineers from all over the world, EBC camp being the most […]

A Nepali teenage dancer, Bandana Nepal, grooved continuously for 126 hours (5 days) and set a Guinness World Record as the ‘Longest Dancing Marathon by an Individual’, a feat previously held by an Indian, NDTV reported. The 18-year-old Bandana on her way to the Guinness World Records danced uninterrupted at a function held in Kathmandu. Prime Minister […]

Abhaya Raj Joshi writes how women in Nepal and India learn together to deal with floods along the Kosi. On August 18, 2008, tragedy struck along the Kosi, a transboundary river that flows from Nepal to India and then joins the Ganga. For the umpteenth time, the Kosi burst its banks. Still, residents were not […]