Nepal’s royals were successful in saving the country’s wildlife, but not its monarchy It was the most splendid of glittering weddings. Fairy lights threaded through the bushes, candles glowed on the ivy-wrapped tables, oil lamps marked the stone flagged paths, and white cushions padded the benches arranged around the low…
Trying to make a movie about a belt and road initiative before the term was even invented If you want to be remembered, write it down. Marco Polo was not the only merchant who traded and travelled from the Venetian empire to the mysterious orient of Kublai Khan in 13th…
How an international wedding ceremony was saved by translation The dark interior of the Om Restaurant on Freak Street was my favourite hangout when I first arrived in Nepal. Run by three groovy long-haired brothers, refugees from eastern Tibet, it was one of the few eateries in the Kathmandu of the 1970s.…
The world’s first carbon-negative country absorbs more CO2 than it burns Our flight arrived 45 minutes early. “Only in Bhutan, never in Nepal,” grinned a retired army general shouldering his golf clubs and duty free at Kathmandu airport, heading for a weekend on the golf course. On landing in the unique traditional Paro…
From trekkers crossing ice fields to panorama of the Everest range at night, the sweeping photos that open the book invoke, in a most beautiful way, the epic sweep and scale of this region. I’ve visited the Khumbu region several times, and in this book’s photographs I found both the…