Nepal

Roundup: Stripping for women's rights
Plus: Do women know when to stop talking and start doing?
Do you really want to be a goddess?
In Nepal, one girl's life in the role hasn't been all that great.
Nepal bests U.S. for safe abortion access
Legalizing the procedure -- and nationalizing a model of care -- appears to have saved lives.
Mothers against measles
Nepalese mothers take to the hills to inform people about a vaccination campaign.
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.
The perilous pepper of Phnom Penh
A newcomer to Cambodia finds that the way to a stranger's heart is through her stomach.
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?
Sacrificing Nepal
The extraordinarily scenic and untouristed area of Mustang is about to have its figurative throat slit -- by a greedy highway project.
Letter from Ladakh
The rugged inhabitants of this starkly beautiful, isolated land are now preparing for the latest invader: Winter.
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.
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.
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.
Festival time in Kathmandu
Jeff Greenwald witnesses some mind-opening -- and pocket-emptying -- rites at three of Kathmandu's great spring festivals.
Looking for Kathmandu
Jeff Greenwald finds gossip, chickens and sex in an excursion off the beaten track near Kathmandu.
Remembering an Everest hero
An appreciation of recently deceased mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev, whose role in the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy remains a controversy.

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