Nepal

  • It takes a piglet

    Using an unusual incentive program, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation has kept thousands of girls out of slavery.
    By Catherine Price July 24, 2008

  • Roundup: Stripping for women's rights

    Plus: Do women know when to stop talking and start doing?
    By Tracy Clark-Flory August 23, 2007

  • Do you really want to be a goddess?

    In Nepal, one girl's life in the role hasn't been all that great.
    By Catherine Price July 23, 2007

  • Nepal bests U.S. for safe abortion access

    Legalizing the procedure -- and nationalizing a model of care -- appears to have saved lives.
    By Lynn Harris June 27, 2007

  • Mothers against measles

    Nepalese mothers take to the hills to inform people about a vaccination campaign.
    By Sarah Elizabeth Richards May 1, 2006

  • Nepal under the radar

    Still reeling from the massacre of its royal family, Nepal finds itself struggling to fend off a Maoist revolution -- while the West looks away.
    By Sean Kenny December 20, 2001

  • The perilous pepper of Phnom Penh

    A newcomer to Cambodia finds that the way to a stranger's heart is through her stomach.
    By Rosemary Berkeley January 21, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    As bad as Horowitz thinks the left is, the extreme right is worse! Plus: Deciding who can say the N-word; is commerce saving Nepal or ruining it?
    Letters to the Editor November 13, 1999

  • Sacrificing Nepal

    The extraordinarily scenic and untouristed area of Mustang is about to have its figurative throat slit -- by a greedy highway project.
    By Jeff Greenwald November 6, 1999

  • Letter from Ladakh

    The rugged inhabitants of this starkly beautiful, isolated land are now preparing for the latest invader: Winter.
    By Steve Van Beek October 26, 1999

  • A man to match his mountain

    On top of the world: Don George profiles Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, world explorer and Himalayan humanitarian extraordinaire.
    By Don George December 1, 1998

  • Coronation Everest

    On the eve of its 45th anniversary, Jan Morris recalls the first ascent of Mount Everest -- an innocent expedition that embodied a different age, and that changed the lives of its participants forever.
    By Jan Morris May 4, 1998

  • Tiger, tiger, burning bright

    Jeff Greenwald describes a blood-curdling encounter with a tiger in one of Nepal's wildlife parks preserves -- and a disgraceful display of fake contraband-burning by Nepalese authorities.
    By Jeff Greenwald April 8, 1998

  • Festival time in Kathmandu

    Jeff Greenwald witnesses some mind-opening -- and pocket-emptying -- rites at three of Kathmandu's great spring festivals.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 20, 1998

  • Looking for Kathmandu

    Jeff Greenwald finds gossip, chickens and sex in an excursion off the beaten track near Kathmandu.
    By Jeff Greenwald February 26, 1998

  • Remembering an Everest hero

    An appreciation of recently deceased mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev, whose role in the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy remains a controversy.
    By Suzette Lalime January 16, 1998
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