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After USAID Cuts, Aid Workers Are Forced Into Sex Work

The AP delves into the ugly, dangerous reality of transgender former HIV outreach staff in Nepal

(Newser) - In Nepal's Hetauda, some of the people who once handed out condoms and ran HIV tests are now the ones selling sex along the highway. The AP follows 28-year-old transgender aid worker Rubi Lama, who spent nine years doing HIV outreach for an NGO funded by the US Agency...

Guide Assumed Dead Found Crawling Down Everest

Sherpa's survival described as 'nothing short of a miracle'

(Newser) - A Sherpa guide was found crawling to base camp on Mount Everest a week after he went missing and was reunited with his family who had given up hope he would return. Dawa Sherpa was last seen around Friday descending the mountain, but he did not reach base camp even...

Nepal's Time Zone Is a Fiercely Unique One

It's 5 hours and 45 minutes ahead of UTC

(Newser) - Nepal doesn't just keep its own time—it keeps it 15 minutes off from its giant neighbor. The New York Times reports that Nepal Standard Time, established in 1986 and set five hours and 45 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and a quarter-hour ahead of India (...

This Guy Just Climbed Everest in Under 10 Hours

Ascent by American Tyler Andrews breaks speed record using supplementary oxygen

(Newser) - An American runner just carved an hour off the clock on the world's tallest mountain. Tyler Andrews, 36, reached the summit of Mount Everest in 9 hours and 55 minutes on Thursday while using bottled oxygen, according to his expedition team, topping the previous confirmed best of 10 hours...

Everest Summit Was a Crowded Place This Week

A record 274 climbers made it to the summit from the Nepalese side on Wednesday

(Newser) - The world's tallest peak was a crowded place on Wednesday. Nepalese officials say at least 274 climbers reached the summit from the south side on Wednesday, the highest single-day total yet from Nepal. Teams seized a window of clear weather after the start to the climbing season was delayed...

'Everest Man' Earns His Nickname Once Again

Veteran guide Kami Rita Sherpa summits world's highest peak for a record 32nd time

(Newser) - A veteran mountain guide just pushed the limits of Everest yet again. Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, has now stood on the world's highest peak 32 times, extending his own record with a successful ascent on Sunday, Nepal's Department of Tourism said, per Reuters . Guiding clients for the 14 Peaks Expedition...

Sherpa Dies on Everest, the Peak's Third Death in 2 Weeks
Death Toll Grows
in the Himalayas
May 12, 2026 6:50 AM CDT

Death Toll Grows in the Himalayas

Sherpa's death brings total to 3 on Everest, 5 overall in the region this climbing season

(Newser) - Mount Everest's spring climbing season still has weeks to go, but the death toll is already mounting. The Independent reports that a 21-year-old Sherpa guide, Phura Gyaljen Sherpa, died after slipping and plunging into a crevasse near Camp III at roughly 23,600 feet, Nepalese officials said. Plans were...

Ice Blockage Finally Cleared on Everest, but Concerns Remain

Route via Khumbu Icefall runs under unstable ice serac, spurring worries as climbing season begins

(Newser) - Mount Everest's climbing season is finally underway, but its most notorious obstacle is opening under a cloud. Nepal's rope-fixing teams on Tuesday finished establishing the route through the Khumbu Icefall, clearing the way from base camp to the first two camps up the mountain after a roughly 2...

Everest Guides Accused of Bogus Rescue Scam

Investigators say they would doctor paperwork for evacuations and medical claims

(Newser) - It's one of the more unusual insurance scams in a while—and it involves Mt. Everest. Nepali investigators say a network of guides, hospital staff, and rescue operators orchestrated fake evacuations and unnecessary hospitalizations of foreign climbers in a scheme worth as much as $20 million, reports NBC News...

Former Prime Minister Held Over Protest Deaths

'This is not revenge,' Nepal's home minister says

(Newser) - Police in Nepal arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli on Saturday over the deaths of dozens of people during violent protests in September that toppled the government and resulted in new elections. Authorities arrested the powerful Communist Party leader at his residence on the outskirts of the capital, Kathmandu,...

Former Rapper's Party Scores Huge Win in Nepal

Balendra Shah, 35, is set to become country's next PM after Gen Z revolt

(Newser) - A political party created just four years ago and led by an ex-rapper has swept Nepal's parliamentary poll, results published by the electoral commission on Thursday showed. The election, the country's first since last year's youth-led revolt , was won by the Rastriya Swatantra Party, or RSP, of rapper-turned-politician Balendra...

Mountain Rescue Companies Accused in $20M Fraud

6 executives arrested for allegedly submitting fake helicopter rescue and hospital reports

(Newser) - Authorities in Nepal have arrested six travel and mountain rescue executives accused of conducting fake rescues on the Himalayan nation's high mountains to scam millions of dollars from international insurance companies, officials said Monday. Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau arrested six people from three different travel and mountain rescue...

A New Plan for 'World's Highest Garbage Dump'

Nepal nixes trash deposit for Everest climbers, now wants to impose nonrefundable $4K cleanup fee

(Newser) - Nepal is giving up on a carrot-and-stick experiment to clean up Mount Everest and moving instead to a straight fee. For the past 11 years, climbers have had to post a $4,000 deposit, refundable only if they brought down at least 18 pounds or so of garbage. The idea...

The Most 'Nature Connected' Nations on Earth

Nepal is No. 1, while the US is No. 45

(Newser) - Those looking to commune with nature might take some lessons from the Nepalese. Their nation ranks first in a unique new study that seeks to rank the "nature connectedness" of 61 countries, reports the Guardian . It's a tricky task: Researchers looked at social and spiritual factors as well...

Nepal Avalanche Kills 7
Nepal Avalanche Kills 7
Nov 3, 2025 9:17 AM CST

Nepal Avalanche Kills 7

Five foreign climbers and two guides are killed on Mount Yalung Ri

(Newser) - An avalanche swept through a camp on Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal on Monday and killed five foreign climbers and two Nepali guides, officials said. Five other people were hurt at the base camp, located at 16,070 feet. The nationalities and identities of the foreign climbers were yet to...

One Hostage's Family Had an Ordeal Like No Other

Bipin Joshi was the only foreigner whose fate remained unclear prior to Monday

(Newser) - As celebrations erupted in Israel over the return of hostages taken by Hamas, a mother in Nepal was told her son, Bipin Joshi, was not among them . Bipin, 22, was the only Nepali national taken during the October 7, 2023, attack on Kibbutz Alumim, where he worked as part of...

Snowstorm Traps Hundreds on Everest
Hundreds of Hikers
Rescued at Everest
UPDATED
Oct 8, 2025 12:00 AM CDT

Hundreds of Hikers Rescued at Everest

Sudden storm halted access and triggered closures

(Newser) - The hundreds of hikers, guides, and other staff stranded when a sudden storm struck the Chinese side of Mount Everest over the weekend are now safe. About 350 of the stranded, which included 580 hikers and more than 300 guides in total, had descended by noon Monday, and the rest...

Dozens Are Killed in Landslides, Flooding

Nepal loses entire villages after heavy rainfall

(Newser) - Landslides, a lighting strike, and floodings triggered by severe rainfall killed at least 44 people in Nepal on Sunday, authorities said. Five more are reported missing. Those killed included at least 37 people in the eastern mountain district of Illam, where entire villages were swept away by landslides, the National...

Nepalese Toddler Is Country's Latest 'Living Goddess'

Meet 2-year-old Aryatara Shakya, Nepal's new 'Kumari,' according to Hindu/Buddhist tradition

(Newser) - A toddler chosen as Nepal's new living goddess was carried by family from her home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace on Tuesday during Dashain, the country's longest and most significant Hindu festival. Aryatara Shakya, at 2 years and 8 months, was chosen as the new...

Nepal Gets New Leader After Protests Topple Government

Sushila Karki, country's first female PM, was reportedly chosen by activists in Discord poll

(Newser) - Nepal's president on Friday appointed former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as interim prime minister and the first woman to head the Himalayan nation's government, following fiery protests that collapsed the previous administration.
  • Karki, a popular figure when serving as the court's only female chief justice
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