This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE This story went to press before the earthquake struck Nepal on April 25. The kumaris in the Kathmandu ...

There will be mostly sunny skies. The high will be 20°. Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 mb (29.9212 inHg ...

Powerful tremors were also felt in northern India’s Bihar state and Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, some 400km (248 miles) away, where residents reportedly ran from their houses as buildings shook.

Nepal lies on a major geological faultline where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, forming the Himalayas, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence. In 2015, nearly 9000 ...

Lobuche is situated in Nepal, to the east of Kathmandu, near the Khumbu Glacier. It is about 150 kilometers from the capital and 8.5 kilometers southwest of Everest Base Camp. Emergency response ...