Sherpa villages in the lap of Mount Everest are reeling from COVID-19 as climbing season ends on world’s highest peak.
![This photograph taken on May 31, 2021 shows mountaineers looking back at Camp 4 during their ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal [Lakpa Sherpa/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/000_9BE3PP-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Sherpa villages in the lap of Mount Everest are reeling from COVID-19 as climbing season ends on world’s highest peak.
![This photograph taken on May 31, 2021 shows mountaineers looking back at Camp 4 during their ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal [Lakpa Sherpa/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/000_9BE3PP-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Key questions answered as president dissolves parliament and calls a snap poll amid a worsening COVID-19 outbreak.
![Protesters from the Nepalese Students Union shout slogans after burning an effigy of Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during a demonstration, in Kathmandu on May 25, 2021 [Prakash Mathema/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/000_9AP863.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Nepal registers record numbers of infections and deaths as a second wave sweeps the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
![Members of the Nepali Army, wearing PPE, carry the body of a coronavirus victim at a crematorium in Kathmandu [File: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-05-12T004051Z_65896994_RC2LDN9UMDRV_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-NEPAL.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Nepali cricket team has now been recognised, but lack of infrastructure and support to players remain big hurdles.

Campaigners call on Nepali authorities to step up efforts to demystify menstruation after chauupadi claims another life.

A month after Nepal held landmark post-war general elections, anger is growing over a delayed transfer of power.
