Stories from the West

Explore national parks, sacred temples, adventure trails, and the authentic culture of Western Nepal.

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

The Sacred and Unclimbed Peaks of Nepal

Some Nepali mountains have never been climbed, and a few never will be. Machhapuchhre, Khumbila, the untrodden summit of…

Jul 26, 2026 10 min read

Sherpa is an ethnic identity, not a job title. Where the Sherpa people came from, the high valleys they settled, the Buddhist…

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

Fourteen mountains on earth rise above 8,000 metres. Eight of them stand in Nepal or on its borders. Here is every one of them,…

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

For six weeks each summer, whole villages in Dolpa, Humla and Mugu move up to the alpine pastures to look for a caterpillar with…

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

Nepal holds thousands of glaciers and a growing number of glacial lakes. What the ice is doing, why outburst floods keep…

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

The summit of Everest is marine limestone. It was seabed before it was the roof of the world. Here is how a vanished ocean, a…

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

Nepal keeps a few hundred snow leopards above the treeline. Where they live, what they hunt, the blue sheep and red pandas that…

Jul 26, 2026 8 min read

Everest was attempted for more than thirty years before anyone stood on top of it. Here is the full climbing history: the Tibet…