On July 30, 2026, a Broad Peak avalanche swept ten climbers off the standard route between Camp 2 and Camp 3, at roughly 6,600 metres. All ten died, among them Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, one of the most decorated high-altitude climbers of his generation. The disaster reopened a question the Karakoram asks every climbing season: why...Read More
Nirmal Purja spent sixteen years as a soldier before he ever set foot on an 8,000-metre peak and thats just a little part behind his Legendary life and lets take a closer look at Nims Purja Biography. To be honest, that’s easy to forget when you’re watching the highlight reel: the record-breaking speed climbs, the...Read More
A monk sweeps ash out of a doorway in Boudhanath, one long stroke at a time, and does not look up once. Nobody photographs him. This is Losar festival, and most of it looks nothing like the postcards. Losar festival marks the New Year for Nepal’s Tibetan Buddhist communities, though calling it one festival is...Read More
Walk through Kathmandu in late August or September and you will notice it before you understand it. Red saris everywhere. Bangles clinking on wrists. Women singing in courtyards, at bus stops, on the steps of temples. This is Teej festival, and for three days it changes the rhythm of the entire country. Teej festival is...Read More
The first sign that Indra Jatra has begun isn’t a sight; it’s a sound. Somewhere near Basantapur Durbar Square, a dhimay drum starts up, that deep, rolling double beat that Newar musicians have played at this exact festival for centuries, and within minutes the old city’s narrow streets fill with people moving toward it. Incense...Read More
You’ll smell the Holi festival before you see it. Clouds of gulal powder drift over rooftops in shades of magenta and electric blue, the bass from a sound system somewhere in Durbar Square rattles windows three streets away, and the first water balloon of the morning explodes against a stranger’s shoulder to a burst of...Read More
Walk through any Nepali neighborhood on the third night of the Tihar festival and you’ll understand the name instantly. Every doorway glows. Marigold garlands hang from windows, rows of diyo oil lamps line the rooftops, and the smell of incense drifts down alleys that were ordinary and grey the day before. This is Tihar, and...Read More
Gai Jatra is one of Nepal’s most emotionally powerful festivals — a day when grief and laughter walk side by side through the streets of the Kathmandu Valley. Celebrated mainly by the Newar community, Gai Jatra (literally the “Cow Procession” or “Cow Pilgrimage”) honors family members who have passed away in the previous year, while...Read More
Janai Purnima is Nepal’s sacred thread festival, celebrated on the full moon day of Shrawan. In 2026, Janai Purnima falls on Friday, August 28. On this day, Hindu men renew their sacred thread, sisters tie Rakhi on their brothers’ wrists, and thousands of pilgrims trek to the holy lake of Gosaikunda high in the Langtang...Read More
I once shared a dining room in Ghandruk with a Danish backpacker who’d budgeted eight dollars a day for his entire Annapurna trip. By day four he was borrowing noodles from a Korean couple and asking strangers if they had spare Snickers bars. He wasn’t stupid. He’d just read one too many blog posts that...Read More
