Fr Marshall D Moran 1906-1992 in Godavari with his ham radio. Photo: Brooke Allen We stood uneasily on the grass beneath the…
EX-Pats of Nepal
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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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Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary will forever be remembered as the trailblazers who conquered the roof of the world and left an indelible mark on human history.
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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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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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A theatre artist called me on January 25 to say that Greta Rana (Greta Mary Pennington) had just passed away. Born in…
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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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Jim Edwards, who died in 2009 in Kathmandu, was one of the pioneers of tourism in Nepal, along with his friends Boris…