The Mardi Himal trail winds through settlements inhabited by Gurung communities — one of Nepal’s cultural pillars known for ...
Have you ever dreamed of standing in the shadows of the world’s highest peak, feeling the crisp mountain air, watching the ...
Bradley Mayhew is a travel writer specializing in the mountains of Asia, and is the author of Lonely Planet guides to Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Central Asia and others. If ...
Ever since trekking became the mainstay of tourism in Nepal, guidebooks have decreed that hiking in the Himalaya is only advisable in spring and autumn. What nonsense. As we saw this past week, Nepal ...
In north-central Nepal, the remote district of Mustang has become a renowned Himalayan trekking destination for those seeking to hike through a place that in some ways has remained unchanged for ...
Recently, we, a group of close friends, unanimously decided to embark on an adventurous trek to the Ama Yangri peak. While refraining from trekking for some time, we hastened to finalise our plan upon ...
Sydney woman and long-distance runner Heather Hawkins has completed a 1,750-kilometre trek across Nepal in a "resilience-building" effort to raise funds for earthquake relief. The 50-year-old ovarian ...