カテゴリー: Nepal
Bodies being recovered after army locates Tara Air aircraft that took off from Pokhara, after conditions hampered earlier searchRescue workers in Nepal have recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people that went down in a…
Seven members reached the summit with the hope of inspiring the next generation of Black outdoor enthusiastsThe first all-Black climbing group to reach the summit of Mount Everest was recovering back at the bottom of the mountain on Thursday and celebr…
Fifty-two-year-old used customary route up 8,850-metre mountain while leading 10 other climbersA Nepali sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for a record 26th time, breaking his own previous record set last year, a government official says. Kami Rita Sherpa…
The 52-year-old man collapsed in the final stages of climbing the world’s third highest mountainAn Indian climber died has during a summit push on Mount Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain, an official said.The death is the third to be rep…
Eliza Kubarska’s documentary follows the plight of the Nepalis expected to take huge risks to aid western leisure pursuitsLike Jennifer Peedom’s 2015 film, Sherpa, this climbing documentary is more interested in the Nepali ethnic group than the western…
Qatar is a magnet for south Asian labour, but failure to investigate deaths leaves dependents without compensation It is hard to imagine a place more different to Qatar than the southern plains of Nepal.Miles of fields covered in dazzling yellow mustar…
Guardian investigation finds labourers – including those on World Cup-related projects – were left with huge debtsLow-wage migrant workers have been forced to pay billions of dollars in recruitment fees to secure their jobs in World Cup host nation Qat…
Glove manufacturer Supermax has repeatedly won NHS contracts during the pandemic, despite claims of forced labour. Now, a group of former workers are seeking justice“I don’t have any dreams for the future because every dream depends on money,” says Res…
Farm workers from south Asia describe exploitative conditions at the heart of Europe’s soft fruits industryWorkers paid less than minimum wage to pick berries destined for UK supermarketsThree days after Sagar* arrived as a worker in Portugal from Nepa…
Exclusive: Workers in Portugal picking berries ending up on the shelves of Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Tesco allege exploitative conditionsPhotographs by Francesco Brembati for the GuardianFarm workers in Portugal appear to have been working ille…
One-horned species was nearly extinct before poaching was curbed. Now the climate crisis could pose a greater threatGanesh Pant worries about the future. While he delights in the stunning conservation accomplishment that has seen the numbers of greater…
Technique using artificial scabs made from a patient’s own blood could also help those with diabetes, say doctorsDoctors at a Nepal hospital trialling a new treatment for skin wounds say the technique, which mimics the scabbing process, has “enormous p…
From a Jacobean traveller’s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction books that shine a light on Asia, Africa and South America• Share your top recommendations for books on the developing world in the comments below…
Refugees are not vulnerable they just need help to play to their strengths, says Om Dhungel, a ‘Blacktown boy’ from BhutanRead the rest of our series Welcome to BlacktownWhen I meet Om Dhungel in a cafe near his home, he tells me about Merryn Howell. “…