Eileen McDougall

Eileen McDougall is a writer from the United Kingdom based in Kathmandu. She covers culture, the environment and development in Southasia.

How one village forged its own recovery after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake

Ten years after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the people of the Langtang Valley show how community and culture are vital to post-disaster recovery – with lessons for a world plagued by disaster

By Eileen McDougall

/ 25 Apr 2025

The newly rebuilt Langtang village, 100 metres further up the Langtang Valley from the original settlement destroyed by Nepal