Posts by NLT
Growing Mount Everest!
During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit last year, Nepal and China had agreed to jointly announce the height of Everest. This has been of great interest to many people but especially climbers. It is widely acknowledged that Everest moved along a few inches in the earthquakes a few years ago but as to its height,…
Read MoreNepal – reopening its peaks and trails!!
Nepal has reopened its peaks and trails for foreign adventurers in hopes of providing much needed income for hundreds of thousands of guides, porters and workers who have been unemployed for months because of the pandemic So adventurers looking to scale Nepal’s Himalayan peaks and trek its mountain trails can finally do so for the…
Read More‘Hand Surgery’ Week
For the past few years Donald Sammut has gone to Lalgadh hospital with his medical crew for a few weeks and run a ‘hand surgery’ week. He operates on a number of patients whose hands have been affected by leprosy. Unfortunately, due to covid-19 he has not been able to go to Nepal this year. …
Read MoreCrossing the border
With the festival season over, Nepali migrant workers are again crossing the Nepal-India border in Province 5. Despite the continuing spread of the coronavirus, the movement of people across the border has not stopped. According to the area police office at Jamunaha, hundreds come and go every day without even maintaining distance. Most of the…
Read MoreWhat is Chhaupadi?
Chhaupadi is the practice of exiling menstruating women and girls from their home – often to a cow shed but it is a much more complex issue than that. Chhaupadi is not only limited to the physical practice of sleeping in a shed – it goes beyond this to include deeply rooted cultural beliefs about…
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