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The February 21 edition

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The writer on holiday.

Why I’m not apologising for my child-free life after a trip to Nepal

A milestone-birthday trip to a remote region of Nepal reveals traditional ways of life – and some unexpected truths.

  • Nina Karnikowski
Thousands of climbers come to Nepal every year to scale the highest Himalayan mountains.

Nepal travel executives arrested for scamming millions with fake mountain rescues

Fake documents, including passenger and cargo manifests for helicopter flights, medical invoices and hospital reports, were allegedly sent to insurance companies.

  • Binaj Gurubacharya
The author and her father during their trip to Nepal.

I left my husband and kids at home to go trekking with my dad. It changed our relationship

We’d struggled to have deep conversations, until we were alone, thousands of miles from home.

  • Susan Reoch
Perth man Chin-Tark Chan had a passion for climbing – often in Nepal.

‘Could have saved him’: How Chinny’s dream climb became a deadly nightmare

The Australian should have celebrated his 50th birthday having just conquered one of Nepal’s great mountains. He died on it instead as rescuers squabbled.

  • Zach Hope
Perth man Chin-Tark Chan had a passion for climbing – often in Nepal.

Perth mountaineer dies while climbing Nepal’s Himlung Himal

Chin-Tark ‘Chinny’ Chan’s friends and family are now calling on the community to donate to support Sherpa rescuers.

  • Holly Thompson
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Nepalese pay their respects to Bipin Joshi.

Their son was caught in someone else’s war – and came home in a coffin

As he left his mountain home to work thousands of kilometres away, Bipin Joshi gave his parents and little sister a big hug. They now know there will be no more.

  • Binod Ghimire and Pranav Baskar
In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2025 and released by Lingsuiye, villagers with their oxen and horses ascend the mountain during rescue efforts to reach hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025.

Blizzard traps hundreds of hikers on Mount Everest

About 350 trekkers have been rescued from the eastern face of the world’s tallest mountain, while another 200 were still stranded after a weekend of heavy snowfall.

  • Ryan Woo
The Nepalese parliament burns after being set on fire by protesters.

‘They burned it’: Nepal’s capital is choked with smoke and gripped by fear

Days of violent protests have left the Himalayan former kingdom without a functioning government and with many of its institutions in ruins.

  • Hannah Beech, Alex Travelli and Bhadra Sharma
A protester wearing flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman shouts slogans at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government’s various ministries and offices during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu.
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World in pictures this week, September 11, 2025

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