The lockdown provides an opportunity to tick off nocturnal wildlife from the mammal list “Does it have a tail?” “I can’t see because it’s sitting on it.” “What about its eyes and coat?” “Bright and black eyes with spikey brown fur.” “Sounds like a greater bandicoot.” “Oh dear. Not again.”…
The unusual story of the godson Prince Philip acquired during his first visit to Nepal in 1961 The Sherpa leader and guardian of the yeti scalp, Konjo Chumbi, and his young wife were hurrying down from Khumjung on the Sagarmatha trail for an audience with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip…
Himalaya a Human History is an exhaustive and sweeping account of the roof of the world Both a soaring celebration and a sacramental offering to the highest mountain range in the world, everything you ever wanted to know about the Himalaya is found between the covers of this magnificent, ambitious…
Remembering the quiet force who shaped Nepal tourism on the 13th day of his passing It was a glowing autumn afternoon in Bhaktapur with the sun warming the terracotta roof tiles and moulded brick facades. Keanu Reeves had just finished shooting the kabaddi sequence in the temple square, liberally enhanced…
In her last column, Lisa Choegyal takes us on the Trans-Siberian Railway during the Soviet days It was my Dr Zhivago fantasy period, and I had this wild idea that it would be compelling to travel solitary by surface all the way from Japan home to Britain – in winter. ‘How I…