Perhaps the sighs and fatigue of the porters here are fading away amidst the beautiful photos of the mountains, the exciting stories of the Khumbu trek, and the dozens of names and records of climbing.
While traveling along the postal highway, we saw large huts on the side of the road near Rangeli in Morang. When we looked closer, we realized that they were modern goat farms.
After finishing our stay at Charka Bhot, we headed towards Tinje, another human settlement in Upper Dolpa.
Once upon a time, the people of Tetang village used to lend money to the entire Mustang region. These days, people have slowly started migrating away. Like other Himalayan villages, snowfall has stopped here too, and the natural water springs are beginning to dry up.
In Himalayan regions like the Tsum Valley, where cultivable land is scarce, brothers traditionally shared a single wife to avoid dividing their property. Although this practice was once common, it is now slowly disappearing with increasing contact with the outside world.
Along the banks of the Brahmaputra in Assam, the Gorkhas carry memories of mountains and migration. Their past still lives in their hearts, but now, they are shaping their own present.
For forty days of the monsoon, the dense forests beneath Machhapuchhre open their secret bounty—tender cane shoots. At the break of midnight, gatherers rise, braving leeches and bears, climbing into the steep thickets where the fragile shoots hide
Stories from Chharka Bhot in Dolpo region, one of the highest human settlements in the world.
About 65 kilometers east of Guwahati, the capital of Assam, a Nepali settlement is found along the highway. The name of the place is Amlighat. Amlighat is famous for its cowherds. The Kapili River is not far from here. But nowadays, cows do not disappear beyond the Kapili River as in Bhupen Hazarika's song. It has been years since the people here stopped raising cows by living in the forests.
This time we decided to travel to Upper Dolpa, via the Mustang route.
Three different stories from Rolpa about the Maoist insurgency.
"The Wild Flowers" tells the poignant story of two elderly sisters, Bhimala and Lalima, who live a quiet, self-sufficient life deep in the hills of Nepal. Isolated from modern society, they embody resilience, simplicity, and a deep bond with nature, symbolizing how beauty and strength can bloom even in the remotest corners—like wildflowers in the forest.
Before the climbing season begins in the spring, Mount Everest and its foothills have already endured a season of rain and winter. The paths traveled the previous year have disappeared. The journey to the summit has become uncertain. In that uncertainty, the icefall doctor takes the first step.
Those who went to raise cattles in Assam probably chose water and forest. Some people came down from Bhutan following the Sarbang River. Some arrived from Nepal. In a place called Khalasi in Kokrajhar district, people who raise cattles are still found in the middle of the forest.
In the heart of Perth, Scotland, there is a hotel called Grampian. Outside the hotel, along with the flags of England and Scotland, the Nepali flag is also flying. The hotel, named after the Grampian mountain range in Scotland, is owned by Kashiram Bhandari.
बर्खा रोकिएपछि कमलाका दायाँबायाँ काँस र खरका झाडीहरु बढ्न थाल्छन् । कति ठाउँमा चाहिँ बालुवै बालुवाका फराकिला मैदान बन्छन् । यही बालुवाका थुप्रोहरुमा यहाँका मुखिया र मुसहरहरु श्रमको बिउ रोप्छन् ।
Almost 6 years ago we met 13-year-old Juntara in the shed of a brick kiln in Kathmandu. When we reached Rolpa 6 years later, we wanted to find Juntara.
आजकल लन्डन शहरमा धिमे र धाँ बाजा घन्किन्छन्, बिस्केट जात्रामा रथ तानिन्छ, कुमारी र भैरव नाच हुन्छन् । लन्डन शहरबाट १ घन्टा टाढा रसमोर जिल्लामा चाहिँ तारो खेलिन्छ ।
What connects the remote villages of Rukum to the United States of America that lies beyond the Atlantic Ocean? Dreams.
डन्डी विश्वविद्यालयमा क्यान्सर जस्ता रोगको उपचारमा सघाउने एउटा महत्वपूर्ण प्रयोगशालाको नेतृत्व गरिरहेका प्राध्यापक डाक्टर गोपाल सापकोटा । विद्यार्थी भिसामा २० वर्षको उमेरमा वेलायत पुगेर, अहिले चाहिँ महिनावारी हुँदा लगाउने कट्टुको उत्पादन गरिरहेकी रुबी राउत । आजको हेर्ने कथामा यी दुईका कथा ।