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Brazil’s renowned ultra-marathon runner Bernado Fonseca will be itching to overcome the ‘unbeatable Sherpas’ as the 11th Tenzing-Hillary Everest Marathon is set for another adventurous edition on Thursday. Fonseca, running in the 60km Everest Extreme Ultra Marathon,  is one of the 17 participants competing in the world’s one of the most difficult marathon events dominated...Read More

16-year-old Matt Moniz from Colorado, USA, was busy with his ‘homework’ at a hotel in Kathmandu on late Wednesday afternoon. The ‘homework’, here, does not denote a school assignment. His concerns transcend the teenager’s age. Already a conqueror of the Mt. Cho-Oyu (8,201m), the homework Matt was found carrying was for a yet another feat....Read More

The Government of Nepal and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a formal agreement regarding upgradation of the Gautam Buddha Airport in Bhairahawa on Monday. Amid a function at the Finance Ministry, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Finance Madhu Kumar Marasini and ADB Country Director Kenichi Yokoyama as well as Acharya Karma Sangbo Sherpa,...Read More

Attempts to climb Mt Everest and Mt Lhotse by two legendary female mountaineers have emboldened other climbers, who have shown interest in scaling the peaks this season itself.Climbers from Malaysia, China, Peru and Romania have shown interest in scaling the world’s highest peak, officials at the ministry of tourism and civil aviation told THT. “Azim...Read More

The ‘Eighth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation’ concluded yesterday with the Kathmandu Declaration. According to the organisers, the declaration states that there is a need to raise global fund on climate change. “At least 50 per cent of the global fund needs to be allocated to adaptation activities and of the adaptation fund, at least...Read More