Nepal

Climate change may be baring Mount Everest

2013-05-14 13:16:00

A warming climate is melting the glaciers of Mount Everest, shrinking the frozen cloak of Earth’s highest peak by 13% in the last 50 years, researchers have found. Rocks and natural debris previously covered by snow are appearing now as the snow...

George Lowe dies at 89; climber was on Everest expedition with Hillary

2013-03-21 19:15:00

After Sir Edmund Hillary's historic ascent of Mt. Everest, everyone knew Hillary's name. Far fewer knew about his indispensable partner, George Lowe. Hillary and his friend Lowe were the only two New Zealanders on the 1953 expedition to the top of the...

For Baltasar Kormakur, an extreme route to the Oscar shortlist

2013-01-05 05:05:00

Baltasar Kormakur has had one strange career. After starting out as an actor in his native Iceland in the mid-1990s, he soon added directing to his dossier. He began with small Icelandic-language slacker films like “101 Reykjavik,” segued to...

It’s a family affair!

2012-10-24 14:53:25

Nepal forms caretaker government pending new elections

2012-05-30 05:00:00

KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal announced the formation of a caretaker government Tuesday and settled into a tense calm after a weekend constitutional crisis led the prime minister to call elections, some four years and several shaky governments after the...

Must Reads: Fierce warriors, sneakers and a double agent

2012-05-13 04:37:09

Blast in busy Afghan marketplace kills at least seven

2012-05-14 04:36:27

Nepal plane crash kills 15; six survive

2012-05-14 04:36:27

Politics swirl over the Tibetan New Year

2012-02-24 16:38:14

Photos: Earthquake hits India, Nepal and Tibet

2011-09-19 08:12:44

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2011-10-28 16:37:10

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Nepal's key parties agree to restart peace process

2011-11-01 16:37:10

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These girls, sisters, were photographed in Bhaktapur, Nepal, in 1990.

2013-05-10 11:24:11

Indian villagers perform a religious ritual over a dead wild elephant at Kiranchandra Tea garden. Indian forest officials had previously treated this injured wild elephant in the India-Nepal border area for a bullet injury after its herd was attacked by Nepalese villagers in Nepal's Jhapa district.

2012-08-20 00:00:00

Indian villagers perform a religious ritual over a dead wild elephant at Kiranchandra Tea garden some 30 kms from Siliguri.

2012-08-20 00:00:00