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Pakistan's K2 porters tread between tradition and modernity
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» URDUKAS CAMP (PAKISTAN) - Under mountains that dagger the sky, a misfit caravan of Pakistani porters trudge towards K2 toting live chickens and lawn furniture for adventurers seeking an audience with the world's second-highest peak.
Nepali hospitals return bodies from air crash to grieving families
AFP, Published on 17/01/2023
» POKHARA (NEPAL) - Nepali hospital staff began the grim task of handing over bodies to grieving families on Tuesday after a plane with 72 people on board crashed, the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades.
Tanzanian firefighters battle blaze on Mount Kilimanjaro
AFP, Published on 23/10/2022
» DAR ES SALAAM - More than 300 people have been mobilised to tackle a blaze on the slopes of Tanzania's famous Mount Kilimanjaro, local officials said Saturday, with police and local people helping firefighters.
'Indescribable': the heat and roar of Iceland's volcano
AFP, Published on 05/08/2022
» FAGRADALSFJALL (ICELAND) - The ground rumbles underfoot, then roars as red-orange lava fountains shoot up from the ground, the intense heat cloaking the nearby crowd awestruck by Iceland's latest volcanic eruption.
Which Asia-Pacific countries are re-opening to foreign visitors?
AFP, Published on 27/10/2021
» Thailand's re-opening to vaccinated foreign tourists marks a major easing of border controls for Asia, where governments have been far slower to roll back coronavirus travel curbs than in much of the West.
Nepal relaxes quarantine rules ahead of Everest season
AFP, Published on 26/03/2021
» KATHMANDU - Nepal has eased quarantine rules for visitors in an effort to attract more climbers to Mount Everest, officials said Friday, after the pandemic wiped out last year's season and devastated the tourism industry.
Rescued from Himalaya trails, trekkers find world in turmoil
AFP, Published on 18/04/2020
» KATHMANDU: Stranded in Kathmandu, running out of cash and with no way to get home, Alexander Sys is one of hundreds of tourists whose Nepal trekking adventure abruptly ended in lockdown.
Coronavirus casts shadow over Everest
AFP, Published on 01/04/2020
» KHUMJUNG (NEPAL) - The Himalayan hilltown of Khumjung should be bustling ahead of Everest's climbing season, but the coronavirus has forced the shut down of the world's tallest mountain and threatened the livelihood of the famed local Sherpas.
Heavy snow hampers search for missing S. Korean, Nepal trekkers
AFP, Published on 19/01/2020
» KATHMANDU: Heavy snow and poor visibility hampered the search Sunday for four South Koreans and three Nepalis caught in an avalanche in the popular Annapurna region of the Himalayas, officials said.
Trash to treasure: Everest garbage given new lease of life
AFP, Published on 22/10/2019
» KATHMANDU: A group of tourists sip water at a five-star hotel in Kathmandu, unaware that the green glasses in their hands were once bottles discarded on Mount Everest -- left by climbers eager to make their ascent.