Nepal
Miracle on Everest: Sherpa believed dead crawls back to base camp
Nepali guide Dawa Sherpa was last seen at about 7500 metres above sea level. He had little food and no oxygen. His family thought he was dead.
- Samaan Lateef
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Sherpa guide missing for a week on Mount Everest found crawling to base camp
Dawa Sherpa 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.
- Opinion
- India
Young people are revolting. India’s ‘cockroach’ campaign is just the latest example
Powerful Asian leaders like Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping are preoccupied by the prospect of young people upsetting the social order. They have legitimate cause for concern.
- Peter Hartcher
Melbourne schoolgirl becomes youngest Australian to conquer Mount Everest
The teenager triumphed on her second attempt, having abandoned a bid to climb the world’s tallest mountain last year due to dangerous weather.
- Angus Delaney
- Perspective
- Australian culture
My grandmother wore a sari every day. But I hid who I really was growing up as a mixed-race Australian
It wasn’t that my Nepalese heritage was too much for Australia to understand – it was too much for me to understand.
- Neesha Sinnya
- Opinion
- My happy place
Despite attracting celebrities, my remote happy place remains relatively unknown
It may have attracted high-profile travellers since the days of Sir Edmund Hillary, but you won’t find tour groups or selfie-takers here.
- Nina Karnikowski
- Magazine
- Good Weekend
The February 21 edition
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Why I’m not apologising for my child-free life after a trip to Nepal
A milestone-birthday trip to a remote region of Nepal reveals traditional ways of life – and some unexpected truths.
- Nina Karnikowski
Nepal travel executives arrested for scamming millions with fake mountain rescues
Fake documents, including passenger and cargo manifests for helicopter flights, medical invoices and hospital reports, were allegedly sent to insurance companies.
- Binaj Gurubacharya
I left my husband and kids at home to go trekking with my dad. It changed our relationship
We’d struggled to have deep conversations, until we were alone, thousands of miles from home.
- Susan Reoch