Fr Marshall D Moran 1906-1992 in Godavari with his ham radio. Photo: Brooke Allen We stood uneasily on the grass beneath the…
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A new book on the British cemetery at Kathmandu is little known but not hard to find, reminds us of expatriates who lived and died in Nepal over the past two centuries.
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The lives and legacy of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, Seventy years ago at 11.30 AM on 29 May 1953 they made history as the first mountaineers to stand on the summit of Mount Everest (Sagarmatha)
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Sorting Through History for the Yeti, whether it exists or not, this mythical monster of Himalayan folklore is Nepal’s top tourist attraction.
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Remembering Des-la at Shangri~la, the 1,000 recollections of Desmond Doig at the hotel’s Shambala Garden that he designed in Kathmandu
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Col Jimmy Roberts with Al Read and Elizabeth Hawley during New Year’s at Tiger Tops in 1978. Little Sangjay was fascinated by…
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Dr. David R Shlim, author of A Gentle Rain of Compassion with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Chyoki Nima is David’s guru and friend…
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The plot in Kakani (Nuwakot) was gifted to the British envoy by the Ranas in the 19th century as a country retreat.
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It was the night after Christmas 1993 and we all thought the bumps were just someone else going to the bathroom. The…
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Götz Dieter Plage (above) drove into our lives in one of those iconic early Range Rovers, a red one if I remember…