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Mustang also on CNN’s Best Destinations list
Kathmandu: American media CNN has placed Mustang in the list of the best destinations of 2023. Releasing the list of 23 places in the world worth visiting in 2023, CNN has placed Mustang at number 16 with a picture of Lomanthang village in Upper Mustang. According to CNN, this place…
Read More »Pakistani and Nepali climbers scale Mt Everest
Kathmandu: Pakistan’s climber Mrs. Naila Kaini has become the world’s first international female climber to reach Everest top in this spring season in the year 2023. Kaini stepped on the highest peak of Everest along with Nepal’s Pasang Temba Sherpa at around 8 am on the morning Sunday. Their expedition…
Read More »Everest expedition begins as rope fixing concludes
Kathmandu: The Everest expeditions for this spring season have begun effective today (Saturday, May 13, 2023) after Icefall Doctors successfully completed “Rope Fixing” to the summit of Everest. According to Imagine Nepal, the third phase of Everest rope fixing was successfully done regardless of the emotional, physical, and mental challenges…
Read More »Air pollution increasing again
Kathmandu: Air pollution has started to go up again due to lack of rain and growing incidents of forest fires. According to the Air Quality Index (AQI), the AQI at Patan, Lalitpur is 176 and it is 163 at Kirtipur, 163 at Ratnapark in Kathmandu, 171 at Narayani, and 155…
Read More »Nepal’s tourism rebounding with over 132% increment
CB Adhikari Nepal has witnessed an encouraging arrival of 326 thousand 527 foreign tourists in the first four months of 2023. The figure is a 132.67 percent increment as compared to the same period in the previous year, 2022. A total of 140,336 foreign tourists visited the country during the…
Read More »2nd International Travel Mart begins in Lumbini
The Mart is organized by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Tourism Board, and Nepal Association of Tour and Travels with the objective of bringing in tourists to Lumbini. Vice Chairman of Lumbini Development Trust Monk Maittaye (Abadesh Kumar Tripathi) inaugurated the Mart. On the occasion, Trust’s…
Read More »3,600 kg waste collected from Annapurna
Kathmandu: As many as 3,600 kilograms of solid waste have been collected from Myagdi-based Annapurna First Mountain. As part of the clean mountain campaign spearheaded by the Nepal Army, the waste was taken out from Mount Annapurna and its base camp. The 8,071-meter-high Mount Annapurna lies in Annapurna Rural Municipality-4,…
Read More »8,000 tourists visit Manang in four months
Kathmandu: A huge number of tourists tuned up to the Himalayan district Manang as of May 7 this year. A total of 8,220 tourists visited the tourist district from January to May 7 in 2023. According to the Chief of Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) Lekhnath Gautam, 5,056 men and…
Read More »Lumbini to showcase ‘Buddha Land’ via int’l travel mart
Kathmandu: Lumbini will be hosting the ‘Buddhist International Travel Mart’ aiming to promote tourism in the birthplace of Gautam Budhha. The event to be supported by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Tourism Board, and the Nepal Association of the Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA) has been…
Read More »Rs 740 million royalty collected from expedition permits this spring
Kathmandu: The spring season is favorable for mountain climbing in Nepal. During this season, the nation welcomes a noticeable number of aspiring climbers from across the globe for expeditions to Mount Everest and other various peaks. People from 80 countries including Nepal took permission from the Department of Tourism for…
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NMA Introduces Revised Curriculum for Professional Mountaineering Training
Kathmandu: The Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has introduced a revised curriculum for its Professional …
