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The Government in Nepal just sent an expedition up Mount Everest — the world’s highest mountain — to recover trash. They returned with 11,000kgs (12 ton) of garbage, but also four dead bodies. It’s said it took them weeks to collect empty oxygen cylinders, cans, food wrappings and bottles...

Durge Kami lived too far way from the local school to receive a formal education and was born into a poor family. At age 69 that hasn't stopped him from finishing school. Hiss classmates now affectionately call him Bajee, or 'grandpa' in Nepali, as he's the oldest student. Durge hopes his...

You read the title right. My friend, Yvonne, sent me this story. The Druk Gawa Khilwa (DGK) nunnery in Nepal now includes the study of martial arts for their Buddhist nuns. The spiritual head of the Drukpas, or Dragon order, to which this nunnery belongs, started this program after visiting...