Once again a pedophile was caught in Nepal thanks to Terre des Hommes. According to the organization, a fifty-year-old Briton was arrested in the Asian country. He was caught in a house with three...
A Nepalese woman was found dead in a hut where she was banned because she was at a time. Also her sons of 9 and 12 years old died there. The mother had fired a fire to...
Nine mountaineers died in the Himalayas as a result of a landslide that buried their encampments. The climbers' camp stood south of the almost 7200 meters high mountain Gurja in Nepal.
Nepal appears to be the first country to achieve the so-called TX2 target: a doubling of the wild tiger population in 2022. Since 2009, the number of tigers in the Himalayan state has increased from 121 to about 235. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has announced this on Sunday..
A chain-smoking and fiercely agitated pilot caused the crash of a passenger plane in Nepal, killing 51 people in March. In a research report, which has not yet been officially published, it says that the pilot had to cry and snort repeatedly during the flight of US-Bangla Airlines.
A landslide in Nepal killed eight children and a woman. Two houses were covered by falling rocks in the Bheri area, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reports. The child victims were between three and twelve years old.
Sherpa veteran Kami Rita (48) has reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 22nd time in his career as a mountain guide. He is now only record holder. The Nepalese Ministry of Tourism announced this on Wednesday. The routinier stood in the morning with a group of Chinese people on top of the highest mountain on earth, on the border of Nepal and Tibet.
The Dutch division of Terre des Hommes has unmasked a prominent Canadian humanitarian worker as a pedophile. Nepalese authorities were caught in the act with two boys in his room last weekend after the tip.
In the Nepalese capital Kathmandu a plane of US-Bangla Airlines crashed on Monday. A black plume of smoke can be seen on photographs. It is feared that fatalities have fallen.
South Asian Nepal will remove all cars that are 20 years old or older from the streets from mid-March. The government of the country wants to reduce the number of traffic jams and improve air quality. The ban applies to about 5000 vehicles. Taxis are excluded from the ban.
People who want to climb Mount Everest and other high mountains in Nepal are no longer allowed to go up on their own. Nepal has decided to reduce the number of accidents among mountaineers. Since 1920, at least two hundred people have died on Mount Everest.
The myth of the Yeti, or the terrible snowman, is ineradicable. The giant monkey has been observed for centuries in the Himalayas and the Tibetan Highlands. Scientists have investigated nine alleged traces of the Yeti. The result is sobering: it concerns eight bears and a dog.
In Nepal, 47 people died by emergency weather. Twenty people got injured.
In Nepal, thirty people have died by emergency weather. Thousands of people lost their house.
Nepal is renouncing an ancient Hindu practice in which women are worn out of their homes during menstruation. Parliament has adopted a law imposing a penalty of a fine of 25 euros, as was announced on Thursday.
The Nepalese government wants to measure the height of the world's highest mountain, the Mount Everest. Is the mountain still 8,848 meters high?
Just below the top of Mount Everest four dead mountain climbers have been found again, Nepalese government reports Wednesday. The deceased climbers were found by rescue workers who were looking for other accidentally injured alpinists. There are two foreign climbers and two local mountain guides.
The famous Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck has fatalized at a Himalayan expedition in Nepal. The 40-year-old extreme athlete, who had the nickname 'Swiss machine', would have slipped down and fell down during the climb of Mount Nuptse, right next to Mount Everest. Steck is the first victim of this climbing season.
The Nepalese capital Kathmandu airport has been recently closed Monday as a feline animal roamed around on the runway. One pilot said it was a leopard.
Mountaineers waiting in the base camp of Mount Everest in the right weather conditions for their climb to the top, do not get bored. Nepal's telecom watchdog These will construct free wifi-Lukla Everest Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp.
In Nepal Tuesday morning, at least 14 people died when the bus in which they were sitting on a mountain road plunged sixty meters down.
The government of Nepal is doing too little to end child marriage. In Nepal, 37 percent of married girls before they are eighteen and 10 percent even before their fifteenth, although the legal age of marriage for both men and women is twenty. Boy about 11 percent marry before they are eighteen, says human rights organization Human Rights Watch.
Nepal has an Indian couple imposed a ten-year ban on mountaineering. The two had said in May the first Indian couple to have climbed Mount Everest. But pictures of their performance had been forged, the BBC reported.
Came in a bus accident in southern Nepal Friday least twenty people were killed and seventeen wounded, the police said. The vehicle hit by yet unknown cause of the road, hit a few times and fell a hundred meters deeper riverbed.
Least 31 people have been killed by a bus accident Monday in Kavre district in central Nepal. The Himalayan Times newspaper reported that at least fifteen passengers in the vehicle were injured.
By landslides at least 39 people were killed after heavy rains in Nepal.
On Mount Everest is a mountain climber deceased again. The IndiërSubhash Paulis after the Dutchman Eric Arnold and Australian Mary Strydom third climber who died in recent days on the slopes of the highest mountain in the world to altitude sickness, the Hindustan Times writes.
In a dramatic weekend for climbers on Mount Everest is the death toll now missing two Sunday again, two climbers from India for more than 30 hours. After the death of the Dutchman Eric Arnold (35) made from the same group of mountaineers also the 34-year-old Australian Maria Strydom living on the slopes of the highest mountain in the world.
The climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Everest has claimed a second victim. Last Friday, the group reached the summit of the highest mountain. The Dutchman Eric Arnold died a day later from the effects of altitude sickness. Now the expedition has claimed a second victim.
