Shashwat Pant

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Shashwat Pant is a Kathmandu-based journalist writing about culture, tourism and mountaineering.

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A Sherpa man carries bags up a mountain.

As Nepal votes, climate change is an elephant in the room for Sherpa community

Shashwat Pant 24 Feb 2026

Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

A collage featuring Ashoka Mukpo, a Mongabay reporter, and a cocoa bean

A mixed flock of curlew sandpipers and gray plovers feed in shallow water at the salt mine in Velddrif, in South Africa’s Western Cape province, where the team captured 20 sandpipers and three plovers for the tracking project. Image courtesy of Cassie Carstens.

Mediterranean coast.

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