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Hilaree Nelson, an American ski mountaineer received Buddhist cremation at Swayambhunath Temple, a famous Buddhist site in Kathmandu, on Sunday afternoon. She had fallen into a crevasse while skiing down the peak of Mt. Manaslu with her partner, Jim Morrison, on Sept 26. The 49-year-old was hit by an avalanche on her way back to the base. Her body was brought to Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu. "It should be a beautiful tribute which Hilaree's family and I feel this is how she would want things performed," her partner Morrison wrote on his Instagram. ‘It’s truly a necessity to have a passion as a compass in life’ was Nelson’s philosophy and she lived by it. Passionate about mountaineering, she had climbed many peaks all over the world. She was the first female to summit two 8000-meter peaks (Everest and Lhotse) in 24 hours. Nelson was named one of Men’s Journal’s ‘Top 25 Most Adventurous Women in the Last 25 Years’ as well as one of National Geographic’s ‘Adventurers of the Year in 2018’. In 2018, Nelson and her partner also performed the first ski descent of the Dream Line on Lhotse. It was one of the boldest runs of all time. “She was pretty attached to Nepal,” says Jiwan Ghimire, her best friend. “She was a mountaineering enthusiast, and the high peaks of Nepal always had her rushing back after her first visit in 2005,’’ he adds. Nelson started skiing when she was three years old. She was a mother of two and the current North Face Global Athletic Team Captain in Telluride, Colorado.

Nepal reported 33 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 850 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 30 returned positive. Likewise, 525 people underwent antigen tests, of which 3 were tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of the virus in the last 24 hours and 66 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 889 active cases in the country.

Almost twice as many passengers have left Kathmandu Valley this year compared to last year. From the beginning of this month till today, about 1.7m residents of the valley have traveled to their homes to celebrate Dashain. In the past two years, the number of people going out of Kathmandu Valley to celebrate Dashain was less due to the covid pandemic, but this year it has increased sharply. The National Transport Business Federation of Nepal, said that 200,000 more are expected to leave the valley by the day of Vijaya Dashami.  Like the previous years, this year too, passengers are facing problems such as charging more than the specified fare in the vehicle, buying tickets for two people for the same seat, keeping the passengers in different seats than mentioned in the tickets.  Not only from Kathmandu, but also from regional cities outside the valley and from district headquarters, many people are going to their respective homes. 

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 jolted Japan's Kyushu island on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit around 20:32 (local time) at a depth of 28.3km. According to the data by USGS, the epicenter was monitored at 31.322 degrees north latitude and 131.457 degrees east longitude. No casualties have been reported so far.  Kyushu is the southwesternmost of Japan's main islands with a subtropical climate, mostly. The region is majorly known for its active volcanoes, beaches and natural hot springs. (ANI)