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Kathmandu - Nepal's government Wednesday accused the Maoist former rebels of breaching the peace agreement that ended the decade-long insurgency in the Himalayan nation. It also expressed displeasure over the role of the United Nations Mission in Nep...
11:24 am CDT Oct 30, 2009 (MountEverest.net) "I wonder if I could maybe try to write a ghost story for Halloween," proposed a mountain editor, with a caution: "Problem is the scariest stories on Everest are true."
10:28 am CST Nov 02, 2009 (MountEverest.net) How many (and which) countries have at least one climber with all 14x8000ers summited? And who's next up? Here goes from ExWeb's regular contributor Rodrigo Granzotto Peron.
10:17 pm CST Nov 15, 2009 (MountEverest.net) In the relatively short time that ExplorersWeb has been around, we have lost too many great climbers, and friends.
Kathmandu, Dec 8 (PTI) Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will undertake his maiden visit to China from December 26, seeking to cement bilateral ties and liberal financial and economic aid for his country.
While the 2008-2009 academic year saw big increases of international students at Minnesota State University and across the nation, the numbers locally appear to have leveled off this fall.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Maoists interrupted strikes that are choking industrial output in the Himalayan nation after the party’s leader met with the prime minister in an effort to end a standoff over the integration of former rebels into the army.
Potential replacement for bird-killing veterinary NSAID turns out to be toxic too
A group of threaders is suing the state over licensing requirements.
Allison Brown decided to create a business dedicated to preserving and restoring traditional Lao buildings.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Nepal's government must arrest an army major expelled from a U.N. peacekeeping force and accused of torturing a girl to death, Amnesty International said.
Photos and story by Lars Howlett Hunkered down at 16,000 feet above sea level, in the modest village of Lobuche, trekkers on the KarmaQuest expedition to Nepal were quick to bed but slow to sleep. By 7 p.m., almost all were zipped up in their sleeping bags, with only one or two remaining members still huddling in the common room around the faint warmth of a stove burning yak dung.
Former Peace Corps volunteer Paul Thompson is still out to change the world.
04:59 pm CST Dec 08, 2009 (MountEverest.net) Comparing routes, style and proper cool-value in Himalaya becomes much easier in winter. Usually, there's no one there.
A new Wednesday morning routine has settled in at Portola Valley Hardware at the corner of Alpine and Portola roads: the absence behind the register of former store owner Helen "Tommy" Simpson.
While I've been experiencing hundreds of panic attacks, these men have been meditating so effectively that their pre-frontal brain lobes light up on CAT scans, plumped up like perfectly ripe peaches.
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