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COVID Is Crushing Nepal, From Remote Villages To Kathmandu To Mt. Everest

1:27pm June 04, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

Health workers must overcome great challenges to battle one of the world's most severe COVID-19 outbreaks, which stretch from villages without hospitals to the top of the world's highest mountain.

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For the photo exhibit "Langtang Rising," a father photographed his daughter. He lost his wife and immediate family in the avalanche after the earthquake.

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Here's What Happened When Earthquake Survivors In Nepal Got Cameras

2:57pm April 27, 2016

by Danielle Preiss

They lost family, friends and cultural touchstones in the disaster of April 2015. Now they're doing "photo therapy."

Anusha Gurung (left) and her friend Illa Gurung take part in a New Year's dance competition in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Nepal's Gurung Community Says Goodbye To A Trying Year

4:32pm December 31, 2015

by Danielle Preiss

Two earthquakes, a delayed constitution and unrest on the Indian border: The Year of the Monkey can't come soon enough.

A Nepali selects a goat to sacrifice for the Hindu festival of Dashain.

It's Nepal's Biggest Holiday And Goats Are Not Happy About It

4:30pm October 21, 2015

by Donatella Lorch

The festival of Dashain brings thousands of goats to Kathmandu — for dinner, sacrificed to honor a Hindu goddess. Despite current unrest and post-earthquake trauma, the holiday will go on.

Demonstrators set fire to a car during a general strike in Kathmandu, Nepal. Police are in the blue uniforms.

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'I Am In Nepal Now,' Says New Tourist Campaign, But Nepal Is In Chaos

5:32pm September 10, 2015

by Donatella Lorch

"We muddle through," says one Nepali. And there's a lot of muddling ahead: Homeless quake victims face the looming winter while political unrest sparks violence, strikes and truck traffic jams.

People injured in a devastating earthquake receive treatment at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, on Tuesday. Hungry and desperate villagers rushed toward relief helicopters in remote areas of Nepal, begging to be airlifted to safety.

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Wounded Nepalis Stream Into Kathmandu, Overwhelming Hospitals

4:18pm May 22, 2015

by Kirk Siegler

Tens of thousands of victims have descended on Nepal's capital from remote, hard-hit mountainside villages that have seen little assistance. Already-strained hospitals are stretched even thinner.

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All 8 Bodies Recovered From U.S. Helicopter Crash In Nepal

2:02pm May 18, 2015

by L. Carol Ritchie

The bodies of six U.S. Marines and two Nepali soldiers were recovered near the crash site in remote mountains northeast of Kathmandu where the helicopter was delivering earthquake relief aid.

Girls share a quiet moment before school starts in Barpark village in the Gorkha district, 1984. The village was reportedly at the epicenter of the earthquake.

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Nepal, Before The Earthquake Struck: A Photographer's Portfolio

8:36pm April 29, 2015

by Rena Silverman

Kevin Bubriski came as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1975, camera in hand, and has taken photos of daily life for 40 years: monks, haircuts, schoolgirls in a village that was at the quake's epicenter.

Even Oscar the Grouch might be put off by the growing heaps of trash in the center of Kathmandu.

You Think Your City Is Full Of Trash? Ha!

6:51pm March 23, 2015

by Donatella Lorch

Welcome to Kathmandu — or, as some call it, Trashmandu. Even in the best of times, rubbish piles up everywhere. Now things have gotten worse.

The nose of the Turkish Airlines plane rests on a flatbed tow truck several days after it slid off the tarmac at Kathmandu's international airport.

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So How Did They Get That Crashed Plane Off The Runway In Kathmandu?

4:12pm March 12, 2015

by Donatella Lorch

It took four days, during which time the airport was closed to international traffic. It involved a truck. It did not involve sacrificing a goat. Maybe it should have.