art Does this yeti, Nepal's official tourist mascot, actually look like a yeti? David Pescovitz

Environment Nepal is banning single-use plastic on and around Mt. Everest David Pescovitz

travel The human and financial cost to summit Mount Everest is staggering Seamus Bellamy

video Watch a very brave biker zip along a lakeside cliff Andrea James

drugs Meet the psychedelic honey-hunters of Nepal Mark Frauenfelder

nepal Teen claims world record for kicking oneself in head Rob Beschizza

travel The yeti is no longer Nepal's official tourist mascot because it didn't look like a yeti David Pescovitz

photography Interview with photographer Meeno Peluce about his favorite tools Mark Frauenfelder

health China facing 'grave situation' as Wuhan virus deaths increase, Xi says Xeni Jardin

china Death toll in China from Wuhan virus now 41, with 1,000+ infected globally, 2 cases in U.S. Xeni Jardin

futility closet In 1907, hunter Jim Corbett stalked a Nepalese tiger that had killed 434 people Futility Closet

Japan What is it like to be a foreign worker in Tokyo? Mark Frauenfelder

writing Lovely lokta notecards Jason Weisberger

crowded places Look at this crowded line of people waiting for their turn to climb Mt Everest Mark Frauenfelder

Cryptozoology Indian Army mountaineers find Yeti footprints David Pescovitz

books Gollancz has published its first anthology of South Asian Science Fiction Cory Doctorow

ngos Report: WWF hires paramilitary torturers and murderers in developing world Rob Beschizza