Nepal Featured on the Front Page of New York Times - Today

In an article titled "In Nepal, a Long, Cold Climb to Inspiration, Gbenga Akinnagbe, writes about his recent trip to Nepal in the New York Times. I have a screenshot from the homepage of Nytimes alongside. Made me feel proud of my country.

He had already traveled to Nepal a year before, and had gone to trek in the Annapurna Circuit. This year too, he visited that place again. Only difference being - this time he was with 15 other trekkers as compared to his friend, who trekked with him last year. Their mission this time around was to climb across the Thorung-La pass. And they did it.

The article is special to me because it features my home country on the front page of one of the most popular newspapers in the world. Even more satisfactory reason is that the article features our country in good light in times when there are terrible things happening almost everywhere in our country.

I would like to thank the writer, and Nytimes for putting Nepal up in the frontpage. Maybe this might be something that would be a free advertisement to the Visit Nepal, 2011 thing. Hope more people visit Nepal this year.

Click here to read this article. And here to go to the homepage of New York Times.