- Oct 22
Magnitude 7 earthquake in Tibet kills 16 and injures 65, 12,489 evacuated
The quake struck late on Thursday, 22 October. By Friday morning 339 homes were reported collapsed or damaged, and power was cut in parts of the county seat.
- Oct 20
Kasia Smutniak presents Mustang at Rome Film Festival, a documentary on Taricone and a Nepal school
The documentary follows a 2003 trip to Nepal's Mustang region that Kasia Smutniak made with Pietro Taricone, and a school she later helped build there. It reaches Italian cinemas on 23 November through Fandango.
- Oct 1
Avalanche at Nepal's Himlung Himal base camp kills 15 local expedition staff
Rescuers in Nepal have recovered 15 bodies from the Himlung Himal base camp after a cyclone-driven avalanche buried 16 local expedition workers under four metres of snow.
- Sep 26
Nepal demands grant-based climate aid at UN after Himalayan glacier flood kills over 1,400
Prime Minister Balendra Shah asked the UN General Assembly for direct grant financing to rebuild from a glacier flood that killed at least 1,450 people, leaving $4.78 billion in damage across Nepal.
