Residents avoided major casualties in the April 25 earthquake by attending the priestly ordination Mass of Jesuit Father Tek Raj Paudel, the village’s only Christian. Jesuit Father Tek Raj Paudel ...

Langtang, Nepal – On the morning of April 25, 2015, Nima Chhiring Tamang, 30, left his home in northern Nepal’s Langtang village to spend time with friends in the neighbouring village of Kyanjin Gompa ...

Earthquake survivors in Nepal's mountain villages plead for help, as U.N. officials say more helicopters are needed to reach the isolated areas. At the entrance of this destroyed mountain village ...

Visiting Laprak offers a rare look into life inside a remote Nepali village that exists without road access. Reaching the ...

(Reuters) - It was three foreign trekkers who used their satellite telephone to call the rescue helicopter that landed in Nepal's Langtang Valley around midday on Tuesday, April 28. Three days earlier ...

Reporting from Syadul, Nepal — In many ways, Sanjay Silwal is a fortunate man. The 300 people of his mountaintop village — including his parents, wife, infant son and 6-year-old daughter — escaped ...

Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of his ...

Olga Murray of Sausalito had been volunteering for five years in Nepal, helping abandoned and disabled children get an education, when she read something in the newspaper that she couldn't believe. In ...

Two years after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, killing nearly 9,000 people and causing extensive damages to property, residents are still reeling from the tragedy — especially in remote ...

HOKSHE, Nepal - Under crushing financial strain, Kumar Budathoki sold one of his kidneys to organ traffickers for $5,000, a sum he hoped would help set him up for a lifetime free of money problems.

Thinley Lhondup Lama, a village elder and sometime actor from Nepal who visited Hartford this year to thank students for bringing electricity to remote Himalayan areas, reportedly died Sunday while ...

For the past 14 years, Dawa Sherpa has run the Mt. Everest Cafe. He’s now opening a second restaurant with his wife, Tashi, Himalayan Bistro in southeast Fort Collins' Front Range Village. The ...