A woman lights incense while she offers prayers during Holi festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Thursday, March 17, 2022. The festival marks the advent of spring. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Masked dancers dressed as deities take part in a procession during the Naradevi Swetkali festival in Kathmandu on March 28, 2022. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Nepal's living goddess known as a Kumari (R) reacts as she is carried on decorated chariot to attend the horse festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, 01 April 2022. Kumari, who appears in public only thirteen times in a year, is worshipped by both, the Hindus and Buddhists as living goddess. It is also believed that she is the protector from evil and a sign of good luck. Nepalese people from all over the country celebrate the Ghode Jatra horse festival to drive demons away from their lives. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





Muslims perform the first Friday prayer in the holy month of Ramadan in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 8, 2022. (Photo by Sunil Pradhan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man attends Friday prayers on the first Friday of the holy month of Ramadan inside the Kashmiri Masjid in Kathmandu, Nepal, 08 April 2022. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in the Koran was during its last 10 nights. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





The chariot of God Bhairab is pulled through the city center during the Biska festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal on April 10, 2022. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A Nepalese boy watches devotees pull down the “lingo” a long wooden pole symbolising a phallus during Biska Jatra festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Thursday, April 14, 2022. During this festival, also regarded as Nepalese New Year, images of Hindu god Bhairava and his female counterpart Bhadrakali are enshrined in two large chariots and pulled to an open square after which rituals and festivities are performed. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Revellers smeared in vermillion powder take part in the “Bisket Jatra” festival in Thimi, in Bhaktapur district on the outskirts of Kathmandu on April 15, 2022. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Temporary police personnel, locally called Myadi, practice with canes during their 10-day training in Kathmandu, Nepal, 21 April 2022. Nepal's government recruited around 100,000 civilians aged between18 and 54 to support security forces for the upcoming local elections. The selected candidates are required to go through the 10-day training which includes physical tests, basic security lessons, cane-fighting training, skills that involve dealing with the public, mitigation and knowledge of the electoral code. Each Myadi police service person will be armed with a cane. Nepal will hold its local elections on 13 May 2022. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A Nepalese woman walks carrying a child covered with a piece of cloth to protect from dust and pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Women pose a photo after applying henna tattoos on their hands during “Chand Raat” or 'Night of the Moon' in Kathmandu on May 1, 2022, on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





A woman pose for pictures after applying henna tattoos on her hands during “Chand Raat” or “Night of the Moon” in Kathmandu on May 1, 2022, on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Devotees pull the chariots of Rato Machhendranath and Minnath during the Rato Machhendranath Chariot festival at Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal on May 11, 2022. Rato Machhendranath is worshipped as god of rain by both Hindus and Buddhists and the chariot festival is one of the longest festival of Nepal. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/ZUMA Press Wire/Eyevine)





Buddhist devotees light oil lamps at the Mayadevi temple on the occasion of Buddha Purnima, which marks Gautama Buddha's birth anniversary, in Lumbini on May 16, 2022. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





Youth activists of civic society groups shout slogans during a protest against rape and domestic violence, in Kathmandu, Nepal, 20 May 2022. Hundreds of Nepalese members of civic society participated in a women's march against the rising rape and domestic violence rates against women in Nepal. The protest was held in part to show solidarity with Nepalese woman Sushmita Regmi, who made claims with a series of videos on social media platforms that she was drugged and raped when she was 16 years old. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A team of climbers prepare to leave for rescue operations from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 29, 2022. A small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route was missing in Nepal’s mountains on Sunday, an official said. The Tara Airlines plane, which was on a 15-minute scheduled flight to the mountain town of Jomsom, took off from the resort town of Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Kathmandu. It lost contact with the airport tower shortly after takeoff. (Photo by Niranjan Shreshta/AP Photo)





Family members and relatives of passengers on board the Twin Otter aircraft operated by Tara Air, weep outside the airport in Pokhara on May 29, 2022. A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on May 29, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





This handout photograph taken on May 30, 2022 and released by the Nepal Police shows members of a rescue team carrying out a operation at the crash site of a Twin Otter aircraft, operated by Nepali carrier Tara Air, on a mountainside in Mustang, a day after it crashed. Nepali rescuers on May 30 retrieved 16 bodies from the mangled wreckage of a passenger plane strewn across a mountainside that crashed in the Himalayas with 22 people on board. (Photo by Man Bahadur Basyal/Nepal Police/AFP Photo)





Family members mourn as they wait to receive the bodies of victims of a plane crash at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Rescuers searching a mountainside in Nepal on Tuesday recovered the bodies of all 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed on Sunday. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A vehicle carrying the bodies of victims of a plane crash arrive at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Family members mourn as they wait to receive the bodies of victims of a plane crash at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)