A passenger van veered off a mountain highway in western Nepal, killing eight people while four on board were injured ...

Physiological traits that help Tibetan women survive at high altitudes are being selected for within the population, meaning ...

A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say. Experts suspect Thame - which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m - was flooded after a glacial ...

Most homes in the quake-hit districts of Jajarkot and Rukum, where houses are traditionally built by stacking rocks and logs, collapsed.

Mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases like malaria used to be confined to the tropical areas of Nepal. But in the last three years, there have been over 900 cases of malaria in the mountain regions.

Their goal is to develop thriving, self-sufficient communities where people can improve their lives without migrating from their villages. When founder Dan Maurer first went to Nepal, he had an ...

KATHMANDU: A devastating flood of freezing water smashed through a village on Friday (Aug 16) in Nepal’s Everest region, local government and army officials said, with experts suspecting a ...

China has offered no explanation why it halted cross-border marriages between Nepali and Tibetan people living in border ...

and Tihar (November), are celebrated in the lower regions of Nepal. Ancient villages: Villages like Marpha, Jhong, Thini, and Kagbeni and monasteries like Zharkot are spread across the majestic ...