The Latest Breaking News from Kathmandu

Pokhara (Nepal) (AFP) - Nepali rescuers scoured a remote area of the lower Himalayas by helicopter and on foot Sunday after a passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing.

Ukraine’s Antonina Samoilova unfurled her country’s flag on Mount Everest earlier this month as Nepal opened its mountains to foreign climbers and set up a new airport to boost its lifeline tourism business which went into deep freeze during the pandemic.

Kathmandu (AFP) - A South African paraglider has made the first legal flight off Mount Everest, an expedition organiser said Tuesday, opening doors for "climb and fly" adventurers on the world's highest mountain.

Kathmandu (AFP) - Eleven Nepali climbers reached the top of Mount Everest on Saturday, the first of hundreds of climbers expected to summit the world's highest mountain from its southern approach in the coming weeks.

Kathmandu (AFP) - An Indian climber has died in Nepal near the summit of the world's third-highest peak, expedition organisers said Friday, the third fatality of this year's busy Himalayan spring climbing season. 

Kathmandu (AFP) - Nepal's marijuana ban could soon be up in smoke, as lawmakers mull a return to the liberal drug policies that once made the Himalayan republic a popular pit stop on the overland "hippie trail".

Nepal is putting a 21st-century spin on a tourism sector dominated by activities unchanged for generations as it looks to boost a vital part of an economy decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic and soaring import bills.

Local police reportedly responded to the discovery of the man's body, which was found at the pool on the first floor of the Hotel Manang in Kathmandu, on Wednesday afternoon just after 3pm

Kathmandu (AFP) - A Nepali climber who summited Mount Everest several times has died on the peak, expedition organisers said Friday, the first fatality on the world's highest mountain this climbing season.