“I don’t think we get many tourists at this time of year.” The Mongolian airline official looked doubtfully at the lines of stocky Mongols lined up at the Hong Kong airport check in desks. “Mostly only foreigners coming for business.…
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Hillary’s 49th day
The climber’s ashes were scattered on waters off Auckland on the holy day of the Sherpa commemoration in Nepal High on the Valley rim I was walking through rough grass in the mountaineers’ memorial park at Kakani, in search of a…
Elizabeth Hawley 1923-2018
Elizabeth Hawley, who died in Kathmandu on 26 January 2018 aged 94 years, was an American journalist living in Nepal since 1960, regarded as the undisputed authority on mountaineering in Nepal. She was famed worldwide as a ‘one-woman mountaineering institution’ because…
“Tell me more …”
Liz Hawley said goodbye and thank you, then expressed surprise to be still alive the following morning Miss Hawley is hunched over her electric fan heater avidly scouring The New York Times as I enter the austere apartment in Dilli…
Bardiya beginnings
How Nepal’s wild west was opened to eco tourism 30 years ago Today if you want to visit the jungles of Bardiya, the drive from Nepalganj airport takes less than two hours. Things were very different back in 1983 when…