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 →Mugu holds the largest lake in Nepal and one of its smallest national parks. Gamgadhi, Talcha airstrip, the trek in from Jumla,…
Read more →Nepal has been a federal republic since 2008, a kingdom for the 240 years before that, and a valley state ruled from…
Read more →Everest was attempted for more than thirty years before anyone stood on top of it. Here is the full climbing history: the Tibet…
Read more →In 1743 a young king inherited a small hill state called Gorkha. Twenty-five years later he controlled the Kathmandu Valley and…
Read more →Between 1814 and 1816 the expanding Gorkhali state fought the British East India Company along the length of the Himalayan…
Read more →Gorkha is a hill district northwest of Kathmandu. Its name travelled further than almost any other place name in Nepal. This is…
Read more →Until the 1960s the most valuable cargo crossing the Nepal Himalaya was salt. Yak and goat caravans carried it south from the…
Read more →A sandstone pillar raised by Ashoka in the third century BCE says the Buddha was born in what is now Nepal. Here is what happened…
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