A man plays on a swing made from bamboo during Dashain, the country's biggest religious Hindu festival, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Monika Malla/Reuters)





A family performs rituals to their vehicles during Dashain festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Friday, October 11, 2024. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Devotees wait with sacrificial chickens as they prepare to enter Balkumari Temple during Dashain festival in Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal, Friday, October 11, 2024. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A sacrificial chicken is seen tied up, while another is carried inside a plastic bag by a man during Dashain festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal,Friday, October 11, 2024. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A sacrificial goat shakes off holy water splashed by a priest as part of a ritual during Dashain festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Friday, October 11, 2024. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Mingma Sherpa, uncle of 18-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa, the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks, celebrates with his family upon Nima's arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, October 14, 2024. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





A Nepalese woman collects Saypatri flowers, an auspicious flower for the Diwali, also known as the Tihar festival, in the village of Ichangu, Kathmandu, Nepal, 29 October 2024. The Saypatri flower is mostly used for garlands to worship gods and animals during the Tihar festival. Starting on 31 October 2024, the five-day festival is the second major event for Nepalese Hindus. During the celebrations, people worship crows, considered to be messengers of human beings, and dogs, repaying the love towards man's best friend, and cows, considered as incarnations of Lord Laxmi, God of Wealth. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A devotee worships a cow during the “Gai Puja”, also known as Cow Worship Day, as part of the Tihar festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, 01 November 2024. During the “Gai Puja” event of the Tihar Festival, people worship cows, considered the incarnation of Lord Laxmi, the god of wealth. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A Nepalese woman offers prayers to the setting sun on the bank of Bagmati River during the Chhath Puja festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, November 7, 2024. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees attend a religious dance during the 12-year iteration of the Naradevi Dance festival at Kathmandu Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, 21 November 2024. During the festival, dozens of devotees wear masks of deities and take a religious tour within Kathmandu valley, where Naradevi is worshiped as a protector. The local Newar community celebrates the festival as a symbol of the victory of the gods over demons and also the welfare of the world. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA)





A boy works at pottery square in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, November 26, 2024. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Nepalese Hindu devotees light oil lamps during Bala Chaturdasi festival near Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, November 29, 2024. Bala Chaturdashi is celebrated in memory of departed family members by lighting oil lamps and scattering seven types of grain along a prescribed route. Although temples were closed for public small number of people offered their prayers on the Pashupatinath temple premises. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Nepali activists light candles arranged in a red ribbon shape during an awareness event organized on the eve of “World AIDS Day” in Nepal, on November 30, 2024. (Photo by Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Nepal's prime minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (2R) inspects a guard of honour before his departure, at the Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu on December 2, 2024. Nepal's prime minister left on December 2, for his first bilateral visit to China, a departure from the usual practice by the Himalayan republic's leaders of making India their first official destination. (Photo by Aryan Dhimal/AFP Photo)





Visual impaired people participate in a rally to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Kathmandu, Nepal, 03 December 2024. Nepal's disabled community and organizations will hold various events to create equal opportunities for people with disabilities. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A Nepalese indigenous person from the Gurung community wearing traditional attire performs during the “Tamu Lhosar” New Year fair in Kathmandu, Nepal, 30 December 2024. Gurung people live on high altitude foothills of Nepal. Many British Gurkha soldiers are from the Gurung community and the Nepali government announced a public holiday to recognize the prominent festival of the community. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA/EFE)





A Kung Fu nun demonstrates her skills during the reopening of the nunnery for the first time since the COVID-19 closure at Druk Amitabha Mountain Nunnery in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Nepalese Gurung community women in a traditional attire get ready to participate in a parade to mark their New Year known as “Tamu Loshar” in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, December 30, 2024. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)





Participants take part in a parade in traditional attire to celebrate Tamu Lhosar, a New Year festival of the Gurung community in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





People gather in an open area following earthquake tremors in Kathmandu, in the early hours on January 7, 2025. A powerful earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 32 people and collapsed “many buildings” on January 7, Chinese media reported, with tremors also felt in neighbouring Nepal's capital Kathmandu and parts of India. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/AFP Photo)