Nepal

[KATHMANDU] Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley bordering Nepal and China, experts and officials from both countries met in Kathmandu to discuss the risk of such disasters.

Scale of the disaster has complicated rescue efforts across the rugged Himalayan terrain

Binod Chaudhary said “it is a huge issue in front of us”

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