Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) kills too many Himalayan children. It is a painful way to die: infection, either bacterial or viral, fills the lungs with puss and the child literally
A year ago, if you had told the pujari at Muktinath that by Dasain he would be doing his evening prayers by electric light, he would have responded, sure, and
Deep in the interior of Chamoli District, 40 kilometres from Karnaprayag, the barren Garhwali landscape suddenly gives way to a lush oak forest, green, in stark contrast to the surrounding
It was 1940, and Chandra Bahadur Garbuja dreamed of serving valiantly under the British Crown against the Japanese. He left the village of Sikha in Myagdi District in central Nepal
A walk last December through downtown Kathmandu´s Durbar Marg avenue was shocking to me, as someone concerned about endangered of Himalayan wildlife. The ubiquitous fur-selling shops all seemed
Mountain rescue techniques in the Himalaya have been fashioned after rescue systems in the Alps and the American Rockies. The tendency has been to concentrate on sophisticated helicopter based rescue
Those of us working in the mountaineering trade as sardars, guides and porters have seen a consistent pattern of commercialisation among some of those from the West who come to
On the night of 19 January, the main building and courtyard of the Tengboche monastery in the Khumbu region caught fire and burned to the ground. The fire had begun
Perhaps the most traumatic period in the life of girls in "high caste" Hindu society is the onset of menstruation. The pubescent girl, besides having to deal with
"What age do you prefer?"
"Dark or fair, skinny or well built?"
"To a lodge or to your own house?"
"For the afternoon
