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Nepal army personnel cary out a search operation looking for the survivors after two buses were swept by a landslide off the highway and into a swollen river near Simaltal, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu, Nepal, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/ Ramesh Paudel)

Rescuers recover first body from 2 buses that were hit by landslide and fell into a river in Nepal

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A woman sits in front of her earthquake damaged house in Jajarkot district, northwestern Nepal, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Friday night’s earthquake killed more than hundred people in the district while more than fifty were killed in the neighboring Rukum district, officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal villagers cremate loved ones who perished in earthquake that shook its northwest, killing 157

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Nepal's sherpa guide Tenjen Sherpa, 35, who with Norwegian climber Kristin Harila climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains in record time, poses during an interview with the Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Sherpa and Harila shattered the record for the fastest climb of the 14 mountains more than 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet) high when they topped Mount K2 in Pakistan late last month. The previous record was 189 days, and the pair did it in 92 days. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Record-setting Sherpa guide sets a new climbing goal for the world’s highest peaks

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Nepalese police escort Charles Sobhraj, in brown cap, to the immigration office, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence. Sobhraj was driven out of Central Jail in Kathmandu to the Department of Immigration under heavy guard Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him to be released because of poor health and good behavior. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

French serial killer ‘The Serpent’ freed from Nepal prison

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Birds sit on tree branches in front of a mountain range near Pokhara, Nepal, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. A police official Sunday, May 29, 2022, says a small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route is missing in Nepal’s mountains. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Rescuers close to plane that crashed in Nepal with 22 aboard

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

A Nepalese man walks past a trekking gear store at Thamel, a touristic hub in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Nepal has reopened its peaks and trails for foreign adventurers in hopes of providing much needed income for hundreds of thousands of guides, porters and workers who have been unemployed for months because of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Facing pandemic economic woes, Nepal reopens to adventurers

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

8 Indians die after falling unconscious at resort in Nepal

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, center attends a bilateral meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Xi on Saturday became the first Chinese president in more than two decades to visit Nepal, where he's expected to sign agreements on some infrastructure projects. (Bikash Dware/The Rising Nepal via AP)

China, Nepal sign deals for connectivity, security and trade

By ROSHAN SEDHAI - Associated Press

In this photo made on May 22, 2019, a long queue of mountain climbers line a path on Mount Everest. About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week most while descending from the congested summit during only a few windows of good weather each May. (Nimsdai Project Possible via AP)

Nepal marks 1st Everest ascent amid debate over permits

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Nepalese army personnel examone the site of an explosion in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 26, 2019. Two explosions killed three people and wounded at least five more in different parts of Nepal's capital on Sunday, with police suspecting that an outlawed communist group was responsible. (AP Photo)

Explosions in Nepal’s capital leave 3 dead, 8 wounded

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

In this April 3, 2019, photo, a Nepalese army soldier bonds with a horse at the Nepal cavalry stable before the Ghode Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. The 'Ghode Jatra' is an annual horse festival celebrated on the Nepal Cavalry grounds in Kathmandu, which marks the defeat of a Hindu demon. The president of Nepal, diplomats, top officials and civilians all gather to watch 106 horses and more than 200 soldiers display warfare techniques which are believed to keep the demon away. The preparations of this event start three months prior, when a dedicated team of soldiers spend days bonding with the animals, by feeding and grooming the horses. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

AP PHOTOS: Horses race in Nepal capital to keep devils away

By NIRANJAN SHRESTHA - Associated Press

A Nepalese security guard walks at the construction site of Melamchi water project in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. The government of Nepal has stopped Italian contractors from leaving the Himalayan country in an effort to complete a critical but much delayed water supply project for the capital city. The Italians have been working for the past four years but the Melamchi project is nearly two decades old and supposed to bring drinking water to Kathmandu, where households have water for only two hours every five days. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal stops water project contractors from leaving country

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

In this Sept. 23, 2018, photo, dancers pose for photographs wearing masks of god Kawancha in Kathmandu, Nepal. For centuries, Nepal has celebrated the Indra Jatra festival of masked dancers, which officially begins the month-long festivities in the Hindu-dominated Himalyan nation. The dancers, who come from a variety of backgrounds, pull off this performance every year despite minimal financial support from the government and other sources, they say. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

AP PHOTOS: Nepal’s masked dancers mark the end of monsoon

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Hilaree Nelson of Telluride, Colorado, and James Morrison of Tahoe, California, raise their fists as the pair arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. The two American extreme skiers who overcame weather conditions, delays, equipment and oxygen issues to successfully ski down from the summit of the world's fourth-highest peak Mount Lhotse returned safely from the mountains. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

American skiers return safely from world’s 4th highest peak

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

In this April 3, 2018 file photo, mountain climber Lhakpa Sherpa prepares to start her shift as a dishwasher at the Whole Foods Market in West Hartford, Conn. Lhakpa Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the ninth time, shattering her own record for the most climbs by a woman. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb, File)

Greatest female Everest climber wants to inspire other women

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

In this March 26, 2018 photo, Nepalese veteran Sherpa guide, Kami Rita, 48, poses for a photograph at his rented apartment in Kathmandu, Nepal. Rita, who is one of just three people to scale Mount Everest 21 times, is about to attempt a record-breaking 22nd summit. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Sherpa guide trying to reach top of the world for 22nd time

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Nepalese rescuers stand near a passenger plane from Bangladesh that crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta)

Plane carrying 71 people crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Nepalese rescuers stand near a passenger plane from Bangladesh that crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta)

Plane carrying 71 people crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2017 file photo, Nepalese mountain climber Min Bahadur Sherchan, 85, smiles as he finishes his morning yoga workout at his residence in Kathmandu, Nepal. Officials say Sherchan who was attempting to scale Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to scale the world’s highest peak has died at the base camp on Saturday, May 6, but was not clear about the cause of the death. The grandfather of 17 and great-grandfather of six first scaled Everest in May 2008, when he was 76 and at the time declared the oldest climber. His record was broken by then 80-year-old Japanese Yuichiro Miura in 2013. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Nepal man, 85, dies trying to become oldest Everest climber

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

In this Nov. 22, 2016 photo, a Nepalese policeman rests in front of Changu Narayan, a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu, at Changu Village, 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) east of Kathmandu, Nepal. Less than two years after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake damaged the 5th century temple, the community is cleaning up their World Heritage site themselves and British architect John Sanday, who led the World Monuments Fund restoration of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, has taken on the recovery as his pet project. Changu Narayan is believed to be the oldest Hindu place of worship in the country, its wooden walls intricately carved with hundreds of deities, perched atop a steep hill overlooking the Kathmandu Valley. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Inspired by Nepalese, UK architect rebuilds ancient temple

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press