BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE The Annapurna Region in Nepal is an incredibly remote region, circled by limestone mountains capped with snow. To this day, Nangi is only accessible by foot. So for six years, once a month Mahabir Pun would hike…
I was below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit and buildings started collapsing around me
BY: MATTHEW MCLOUGHLIN “I was just below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit. I just barely escaped two collapsing buildings.” At just 19-years old, Dylan Sartor stood in the shadow of the Himalayas, uninjured among the flattened houses and…
The Gadhimai Festival is a bloody sacrificial ritual where 200,000 animals died in 2 days
BY: LAURA ROJAS Every five years, the sacrificial Gadhimai Festival takes place in the village of Bariyapur, a community located in southern Nepal near the Indian border. The festival claims the lives of thousands of animals in the name of…