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Inside Nepal’s tourism industry and the risks travellers are willing to take

Regular visitors to Nepal are very familiar with the risks that come with travelling throughout the country, but it's unlikely to stop them from going back.

ABC News

Indian passenger's video of Nepal plane crash emerges as relatives mourn dead

Search teams retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders Monday of a passenger plane that plummeted into a gorge on approach to a new airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, officials said, as investigators looked for the cause of Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 years.

France 24

EXPLAINER: Why did Nepal plane crash in fair weather?

Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed Sunday just before landing in Nepal’s tourist city of Pokhara, the gateway to a popular hiking area in the Himalayas, after a 27-minute trip from Kathmandu

The Independent UK

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Pilots likely 'lost control' in fatal Nepal plane crash with Australian on board, airline consultant says

The domestic Yeti Airlines plane went down during a 27-minute flight from Nepal's capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, a tourist town known as the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit, a popular hiking trail in the Himalayas.

ABC News

Joshimath’s story dates back decades. That’s why media must dig deep

A small town in Uttarakhand has made it to the front pages of newspapers, and as the top story in many television news shows. Joshimath, a town of a little under 17,000 people in Chamoli district, is already well-known to trekkers, those wanting to explore the Himalayas, and Hindu pilgrims.…

Newslaundry

The key to future climate adaptation is to tap past knowledge

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them.

360info

Explainer-What the world's nature-rich nations want out of a global conservation deal

Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world's most nature-rich nations. And protecting these ecosystems, experts say, could help save the planet.

Reuters

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Mountain women: unsung heroes

Whether they live on Mount Kilimanjaro, in the Himalayas, or the Andes, women and girls in mountain communities around the world have much in common: they are often the ones managing daily life in the mountains, as protectors of the land and biodiversity and keepers of traditional knowledge.

Bangkok Post

This Village In J-K Has India's Biggest International Yoga Centre

The village, which is located on the Himalayas in the sal forests' lap, the village, which has a peripheral view of both the plains as well as hills, which will serve the International Yoga Centre at the banks of the Tawi river. Read more on Dynamite news:

Dynamite News

Closer to heaven

Doi Luang Chiang Dao in Chiang Mai is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover lush sub-alpine woodland and limestone mountains that rise 2,225m above sea level. As part of Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, its topography is comparable to that of the Himalayas and south China.

Bangkok Post

Ultimate Digital Nomad? The Woman Who Has Worked Digitially From Nearly 50 Countries

Financial freedom isn't about being rich. The Woman gives up career at an advertising agency to work from the Himalayas.

Zenger

1962's Sino-Indian border war lasted four weeks – internment of India's Chinese community lasted years

As the Cuban missile crisis gripped the world’s attention 60 years ago, a less remembered conflict broke out high in the mountain passes of the Himalayas. Tensions had been mounting for months on the border between India and China and on October 20 the Chinese People’s Liberation Army attacked Indian…

The Conversation

Uttarakhand: Portals Of Kedarnath Dham Shut For Winter Season Today

It is believed that after the portals are shut, Lord Kedarnath becomes austere for six months of winter in the Himalayas for the welfare of the world. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

The school my parents kept me from – Vikram Kushwah’s best photograph

‘When I started using crude words, my parents sold their inheritance, took out massive loans and lived in a shack with an outside toilet – to send me to an elite school in the Himalayas. These boys are at the school I would otherwise have attended

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Daily Record

Rangers legend Willie Henderson backs Nepal trekkers raising funds for charity set up in memory of his late daughter

Group of 14 volunteers will scale to an altitude of 4500m in the Himalayas in aid of the Michelle Henderson Cervical Cancer Trust.

France 24

Avalanche in the Indian Himalayas kills dozens of climbers

At least 26 people have been confirmed dead after an avalanche struck climbers in the Indian Himalayas, officials said Friday, with bad weather hampering the fourth day of search and rescue efforts.

Reuters

Death toll in avalanche in Indian Himalayas rises to 16 - statement

Rescuers in northern India recovered 12 bodies of trainee mountaineers on Thursday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 from an avalanche in the Himalayas, the state-run Nehru Institute of Mountaineering said.

The Guardian - AU

Avalanche in Indian Himalayas kills at least four with dozens missing

Indian air force searches for remainder of group consisting of 34 mountaineering trainees and seven instructors

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Evening Standard

Uttarakhand: Multiple deaths and dozens missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas

Local reports suggest at least ten people have died in the avalanche

Newsroom.co.nz

Self-portrait: Life of Brian, 96

Cricket physicist who climbed with Ed and is Damien's dad

Daily Mirror

Mum-of-two plunges off huge 27,000ft mountain in Himalayas after skidding off

Manaslu in Nepal is the world’s eighth highest mountain and the search for the mother of two from Telluride, Colorado, has been very tricky due to poor weather conditions

Daily Mirror

Nepal avalanche: Disaster on eighth highest mountain in world 'kills 2 with 12 injured'

The avalanche is believed to have happened around 11.30am on Monday on Mount Manaslu, in the Nepalese Himalayas in the west-central part of Nepal in south Asia

Reuters

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from western Himalayan area

Indian and Chinese troops have begun disengaging from the Gogra-Hotsprings border area in the western Himalayas, both sides said, two years after clashes at the frontier strained diplomatic ties.

The Guardian - UK

High by Erika Fatland review – a tour of the Himalayas, without the cliches

An anthropologist establishes a unique rapport with the people she encounters on this unromantic trek through the mountains

Daily Mirror

Brit plunges 100ft off mountain after he's charged at by angry mule on hike

Syed Bukhari suffered three separate head wounds that required a total of eight stitches after rescuers found his body following a 100 feet fall in the Himalayan mountains

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