Entrepreneurs aiming to set up Nepal’s first ski resort are undeterred by difficult terrain and lack of state support
Along the single icy road leading through the village of Kuri, high in the hills of eastern Nepal, tourists stop to stare at a pair of skis. “Is it a skateboard?” asks one. “Maybe they are ice skates,” suggests another. “No idea,” they agree, before walking off gingerly along the slippery track.
Nepal may have the highest mountains in the world, but you are about as likely to see a skier here as you are a yeti. Nepal sent no athletes to the Winter Olympics last year, and there is not a single ski resort in the country.
Related: Destroy ‘period huts’ or forget state support: Nepal moves to end practice
Written by Pete Pattisson in Kuri
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/23/craze-will-come-off-piste-plan-to-get-nepal-skiing-kuri under the title “
“. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
