Hill Hinduism, monarchy and the Nepali language — the conventional symbols of a historically weak Nepali nationalism — are all presently under attack. A crisis of identity prevails among Nepal's
Yonzon is a member of Environment Protection Council, Nepal and a resource biologist.
The ecological integrity of Langtang National Park, only 32 km north of Kathmandu, is under enormous stress.
Nepali businessmen are trying to develop an international market in Himalayan flowers and plants, but are finding that it is easier said than done.
The annual trade in cut flowers
Herbs, Himalaya and Biodiversity
Ever since life began on Earth, one thing that has been most rai intrinsic to it has been the growth of biodiversity in plants, animals and
So little information is available about the international trade in Himalayan herbs once they leave Indian shores, that any study, however inadequate, is still better than nothing at all. Some
There are a string of offices under the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation to look after medicinal plants: a botanical garden, a herbarium and botanical laboratory, a laboratiry for
Medicinal plants make up the largest economic resource being tapped across the Himalayan region, but mountain peasants get to see only a tiny fraction of the profits. It is a
Reinhold Messner has marketed the concept of the Himalaya as a "dream factory" only too well. He is better-known throughout Europe than any Asian politician. Whether or not
Mountaineering as a sport is about fairness, honesty, and humility born of risk. It is not about taking advantage of helplessness and poverty.
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Climbing ethics presently limits itself to matters of sportsmanship and technique. But being a better mountaineer demands somewhat more than this.
Thousands of mountaineers from all over the world come
Bhutan strictly controls access to its mountains, but that is because the people want it so. In the battle between sport and spiritual belief, the latter wins for the moment.
"Taking into consideration the pressure on the environment" of upper Khumbu, the Nepali Ministry of Tourism announced in July that effective the Autumn 1922 climbing season, each mountaineering
