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Nepal waives fees for some peaks to lure mountaineers

Nepal will waive climbing fees for nearly 100 peaks in the remote north western Himalayas for the next two years to try and lure more mountaineers to the less developed region bordering China, an official has said.

News Lens • 12 Aug

Nepal has faced criticism for allowing too many permits on Everest

Nepal may limit Everest permits to experienced climbers

Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation's 7,000-metre peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at reducing overcrowding and improving safety.

World • 28 Apr

The new rate will come into effect from September and apply for the popular climbing April-May season

Nepal sharply increases permit fee for Everest climbers

Nepal is to increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world's tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials have said.

World • 22 Jan

The plane burst into flames after it skidded off the runway

18 killed, pilot rescued after Nepal plane crash

Eighteen people were killed after a small plane caught fire after skidding off the runway while taking off from Nepal's capital Kathmandu, media and officials have said.

World • 24 Jul 24

Damaged houses in Jajarkot district in the aftermath of the earthquake

Search on for Nepal quake survivors as deaths reach 157

Rescue workers in Nepal have begun digging through the rubble of collapsed houses with their bare hands, searching for survivors after the country's worst earthquake in eight years killed 157 people and shook buildings as far away as New Delhi.

World • 04 Nov 23

Nepal issued a record 478 permits for Everest during this year's March to May climbing season (stock image)

Sherpa saves climber in Everest 'death zone' rescue

A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a "very rare" high-altitude rescue, a government official said.

World • 02 Jun 23

Higher camps are littered with torn tents, food wrappers and empty oxygen bottles (File image)

US climber in plea to keep Everest free from rubbish

A US mountain guide, who recently achieved the rare feat of climbing Mount Everest and two nearby peaks in less than three weeks, has said that Nepal needs to do a better job of policing the world's highest mountain to save it from rubbish.

World • 30 May 23

Kami Rita Sherpa pictured at the Everest base camp in 2021

Nepali mountaineer climbs Everest for record 27th time

Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa has reached the top of Mount Everest for the 27th time, reclaiming the record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain.

World • 17 May 23

Rescue operations continued for a number of days with 71 of 72 bodies recovered (file image)

Nepal aircraft investigation shows 'no thrust motion'

An aircraft that crashed in Nepal last month killing 71 people on board, had no thrust motion in its engines in the final leg of its descent, a government-appointed panel investigating the accident said.

World • 06 Feb 23

Rescuers inspect the wreckage at the site of a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara

'Black boxes' found as search resumes after Nepal crash

Searchers have found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed yesterday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said.

World • 17 Jan 23

A Summit Air Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft (L) hit two helicopters at Lukla airport in April 2019

Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous Nepal

An aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal this morning, the latest aviation disaster to hit the Himalayan nation.

World • 15 Jan 23

Rescuers assess the wreckage at the site of the crash

At least 68 people killed in Nepal air crash

At least 68 people were killed when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.

World • 15 Jan 23

Charles Sobhraj (C) pictured at a court hearing in June 2014

Convicted killer 'The Serpent' freed from Nepal prison

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, has been released from a Nepal prison after nearly two decades behind bars.

World • 23 Dec 22

Relatives of passengers on board the Twin Otter aircraft operated by Tara Air comfort each other outside the airport in Pokhara

All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash

Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people from a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said, as they began identifying the victims.

World • 31 May 22

Family and relatives of passengers on board the Twin Otter aircraft operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air, weep outside the airport a day after it crashed, in Pokhara

Bodies of 21 people recovered in Nepal plane crash

Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all but one of 22 people on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside over the weekend, the army said today.

World • 30 May 22

A statue of Hindu god Lord Shiva amid the risen water levels of River Ganga in India's Uttrakhand state

Nearly 200 dead after floods in India and Nepal

Nearly 200 people have died in floods and landslides in India and Nepal, officials said, as forecasters warned of yet more heavy rain.

World • 21 Oct 21

Rescue workers push a overturned vehicle stuck in the mud and debris at a site of a landslide in Kokkayar, India

Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal

More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials have said, with scores more missing.

World • 20 Oct 21

The pandemic forced Nepal to shut its borders right before the beginning of the busiest mountaineering season last year

Nepal eases quarantine rules ahead of Everest season

Nepal has eased quarantine rules for visitors in an effort to attract more climbers to Mount Everest, officials have said, after the pandemic wiped out last year's season and devastated the tourism industry.

World • 26 Mar 21

Traditional farming songs and laughter echoed in the air as farmers waded into waterlogged fields to sow green paddy

Paddy Day - but not as we know it

Splashing mud and drinking local rice beer, Nepali farmers this week celebrated National Paddy Day to mark the beginning of the rice-planting season, despite some coronavirus lockdown measures still in place.

News Lens • 30 Jun 20

The lockdown affecting 1.3 billion people - the world's largest - has been in force since late March

India extends Covid-19 lockdown until end of May

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Brazil has soared to over 230,000, surpassing that of Spain and Italy which were once the epicentre of the pandemic, and making Brazil's outbreak the fourth largest in the world, according to official figures.

Coronavirus • 17 May 20

Nepal earns €4 million a year from climbing permits for Mount Everest

Nepal bars climbers from Everest over Covid-19 pandemic

Nepal has barred climbers from all mountains - including Mount Everest - over the coronavirus pandemic, in a major blow to its tourism industry.

News Lens • 13 Mar 20

Khagendra Thapa Magar pictured when he was 15

'World's smallest man' dies at age of 27

The world's shortest man who could walk, as verified by Guinness World Records, died this morning at a hospital in Nepal.

News Lens • 17 Jan 20

Heavy rains since Thursday have hit several districts in Nepal

At least 50 dead in Nepal monsoon

Floods and landslides caused by torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 50 people across Nepal while dozens more are missing, officials said.

World • 14 Jul 19

Dalglish was not in court for the hearing which was held in Kavre, 30km from Kathmandu (pictured)

Ex-UN aid worker sentenced in Nepal for child abuse

A court in Nepal has sentenced a former UN aid worker from Canada to nine years in jail on charges of sexually abusing two boys.

World • 09 Jul 19

Governments on both sides of the mountain have been battling the human waste and rubbish left by climbers

Ten tonnes of rubbish collected from Everest

Around ten tonnes of rubbish has been collected on Everest at the end of this year's climbing season, Nepal authorities said.

World • 28 May 19