Jul 26, 2026 8 min read
How the Himalayas Formed: The Geology Beneath Nepal
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…
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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…
Read more →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,…
Read more →Nepal holds thousands of glaciers and a growing number of glacial lakes. What the ice is doing, why outburst floods keep…
Read more →Altitude sickness has almost nothing to do with fitness. What thin air does to the body, the three conditions worth knowing by…
Read more →Three river systems drain almost the whole of Nepal, and all three are older than the mountains they cut through. Sources,…
Read more →For six weeks each summer, whole villages in Dolpa, Humla and Mugu move up to the alpine pastures to look for a caterpillar with…
Read more →Some Nepali mountains have never been climbed, and a few never will be. Machhapuchhre, Khumbila, the untrodden summit of…
Read more →Sherpa is an ethnic identity, not a job title. Where the Sherpa people came from, the high valleys they settled, the Buddhist…
Read more →Nepal keeps a few hundred snow leopards above the treeline. Where they live, what they hunt, the blue sheep and red pandas that…
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