Category: Nepal

In the middle of the Everest climbing season Nepal is also in the middle of a second COVID-19 wave The Austrian expedition company Furtenbach Adventures announced on Saturday that they were cancelling their attempt at climbing Mount Everest this season. Such calls are usually made due to bad weather. In 2021 it was due to …

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Finally, everyone is worried The first wave came in 2020 and people got sick. Tourism stopped. Over the past year Nepal met the pandemic with its typical resilience. The 2015 earthquake is still in many peoples minds. To this day people are still waiting for promised aid to rebuild their houses. Others knew it wasn’t …

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A photographic collection of Kathmandu’s iconic hand-painted store & street signs This coffee table book has been over 10 years in the making. It’s a personal project that I enjoyed tremendously. I wasn’t expecting to publish it now, but strangely due to the pandemic the cards fell into play. As you know from the news, …

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The best guidebook to Nepal is once again available in paperback format! Wow, we did it again! We beat the pandemic and the global lockdowns attempts at derailing our print guidebooks. There’s a new print edition out. It’s now the only guidebook to Nepal in the world that’s been updated and published during the pandemic. …

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Today Nepal has received its first shipment of COVID-19 Vaccine In an unexpected move of goodwill India has given Nepal its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine. It arrived in the country on Thursday and will be used to vaccinate all of Nepal’s health and front line staff. The vaccine is called Covishield and is the …

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Is Nepal getting one of the new vaccines for COVID-19? It seems highly likely that in the near future a person will need a COVID-19 vaccine before they can travel, get on an international flight or enter a foreign country. This will probably include Nepal. We’ll save the “no to vaccines” approach for other places. …

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On October 17th 2020 Nepal will allow mountaineers and trekkers to enter Nepal If you’ve been following my regular COVID-19 updates from Nepal you would have known this was on the cards. However, it did take until the 16th of October for an official announcement to be made … Yes, they literally left it to …

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