Himalaya. The name itself explains lot about this colossus mountain range of the planet. All the madness, the exhilaration, the excitement and most importantly the spiritual fact; the name Himalaya puts these all in plain words. Home to some of the world’s most infamous mountains plus the highest peak of the world-Everest; Himalaya dwarfs   all [...]

Nepalis have given the thumbs-down to their forest minister Deepak Bohora’s lofty plan to hold a cabinet meeting in the lap of Mt Everest, calling it an unnecessary ploy.
The minister, whose wish to allow hotels to run as usual in the core area of a national park in southern Nepal has also been shot down [...]

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA (AP)

Nepal’s Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.
The Cabinet will meet at the Everest base camp later this month, just ahead of an international climate change conference next month in [...]