As the 65th year of the first ascent approaches, the mystery of a specially blended Chivas Regal is solved I know he’s an imposter.” The short wiry man with weasel eyes hissed loudly in the row behind me, his voice…
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The Kathmandu crowd
The Valley in the 1970s was a haven for biologists, ethnologists and anthropologists It still stands, a rather plain large brick house whose once-spacious garden has since sprouted several new residences, cheek by jowl. Located on the corner of Sanepa…
Survival survivors
Through their enthusiastic lenses, nature film-makers introduced Nepal to a global audience Götz Dieter Plage (above) drove into our lives in one of those iconic early Range Rovers, a red one if I remember right, bristling with all the latest…
Adventurers in a Vanishing land
The world, and Nepal, have changed since the days of Wilfred Thesiger and Freya Stark Dame Freya Stark looked around her with some bemusement as we left the bustle of Kathmandu airport and headed into town. “I feel we must be somewhere East of…
Infectious enthusiasm for travel
Typhoid is just another part of Nepal’s adventure tourism package There is never a good moment to contract typhoid, and I’ve had it three times in Nepal. With a two-week incubation period, many different strains, and highly contagious through shit…