Mountaineering was seen and described in military terms as if virgin peaks needed to be ‘conquered’ or ‘vanquished’. British ...
The lives of Roberts and Matthiessen follow similar trajectories of family illness and tragedy, reckoning, and an arduous ...
A key body within the core driving climate change discourse is the United Nations. The United Nations Framework Convention on ...
In 1972, my father gave me 'Everest: The West Ridge' by Thomas Hornbein, about the American Everest Expedition ten years previously. The book inspired a lifelong passion to learn about the world’s ...
Nepal has so far received a commitment of only $21.6 million from the UN Loss and Damage Fund. Existing international climate ...
“Stargazing is a growing tourism attraction because many parts of the world are now too bright to see stars,” Gurung says.
Desmond Macgcnaimhshi was one of the last remaining 1970s ‘hippy trail’ expats who utterly cut his own path in life. He lived ...
When the cowrie shells come out in Kathmandu's courtyards during Tihar, few players know that more than 170 years ago, rulers ...