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On my first night in Lumbini, I woke up before dawn to the measured, deep sound of bells from the Tibetan monastery down the road, calling monks to early morning meditation.
Lumbini is really nothing more than a small village at a crossroads on the hot and dusty lowland plains of the flat, agricultural Terai region of southern Nepal.
Renowned American extreme skier Glen Plake says he feels lucky to be alive after surviving the weekend Himalayan avalanche that killed at least eight people, but he's heartbroken that he could not save two friends.
We imagine Kathmandu as a city nestled in clean, verdant green valley, whose temple-framed vistas take the eye all the way to the snow-capped Himalayas beyond, once the Shangri-La of hippiedom.
My friend, says his wife, can smell a Zegna store from blocks away. I smell bookshops.
Sad news. What I did not know while writing last week’s column on favorite bookshops was that the extraordinary Pilgrims Book House in Kathmandu is no more.
Nepal may install ladders on Mount Everest's Hillary Step, the final rock wall which climbers have to scale to reach the summit, in a bid to ease congestion, the government said Monday.
For my birthday, I wanted to try something different. And Nepal looked different.
Nepal is the only country in the world with more gods than people, more temples than houses and...
Next time you leave silly messages on the world's highest mountain, beware: China is watching you.
