The multicolored little flags ever-present in high points in Nepal, from buildings to chortens to summits, are known as lung-ta or wind horses. Their mission is to spread the power of the prayers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took a final 18 hours of non-stop work in tough conditions, but the expert Sherpa team known as the Icefall Doctors have ...

John 6:38 “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” The Khumbu region of the Himalaya in Nepal is one of the harshest environments on this planet. The ...

NEW DELHI – On Everest, everybody knows the Khumbu Icefall is dangerous. They’ve known it for generations – since the first great Everest mountaineer, George Mallory, turned away from the Icefall in ...

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Himalayan climbing: French mountaineers Aurélien Vaissière, Antonin Cecchini, Laurent Thévenot and Symon Welfringer have established Le Quattro à Cordes, a new route up Lobuche East (6120m) above the ...

Figure 1. Imja valley, Khumbu, as seen from the upper slopes of Kongde Ri (6,187 m). Photo: L S SHERPA During the 1970s and early 1980s, it was commonly assumed by the development community that the ...

Flying from Kathmandu to Lukla today is almost like taking an international flight. Passengers need a negative RT PCR report not older than 72 hours, have to wear masks, visors and latex gloves on the ...