The Harvey Weinstein Of Mountaineering
An anonymous tip led to the unraveling of one the world's most famous mountaineers. Read how the social media campaign targeting Nirmal...
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Michael Kobold
- Aug 2, 2019
- 19 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - PART 13
Dr. Richard Fuisz, the retired CIA operative, reached into his jacket pocket and produced a brand new Fujifilm X-Pro1 camera. “Here,...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 26, 2019
- 13 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 12
“Michael has a very generous present for you, general,” U.S. Ambassador Alaina Teplitz said to General Rajendra Chettri, the chief of the...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 19, 2019
- 16 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 11
“Mr. Kobold is a friend of the president, please give him an all access pass,” Bill Clinton’s aide said to the security officer,...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 12, 2019
- 21 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 10
“This is excellent,” wrote Sam Pitroda, the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, the international outreach body of Rahul Gandhi’s...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 6, 2019
- 22 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 9
Prithivi Pande is without equal in the lofty worlds of investment banking, art-collecting and politics. The self-made tycoon is the...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 5, 2019
- 30 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 8
In order to improve his news conglomerate’s public image, Kantipur's owner, Kailash Sirohiya, hired Anup Kaphle as the Kathmandu Post’s...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 4, 2019
- 27 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES -Part 7
July 4, 2019 “America sucks,” Professor Jack Roseman said, smiling broadly, “it sucks, but I always remind everyone that it’s still by...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 2, 2019
- 23 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 6
On July 1, 2019, the Nepal national chapter of Rotary International inducted Kiran Lal Shrestha as it’s new governor of district 3209. In...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 2, 2019
- 28 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 5
Gautam “G2” Rana was born into a life of immense privilege. The grandson of the last hereditary prime minister of Nepal, G2 purported to...
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Michael Kobold
- Jul 1, 2019
- 25 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part 4
In 2012, after the headline-grabbing Everest summit rock controversy had simmered down, I discovered that Namgel and Thundu Sherpa did...
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 29, 2019
- 40 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part III
“Namaste Michael, I have been following you and your brand since my childhood days,” Kamal BK wrote via Facebook messenger. “I urge you...
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 29, 2019
- 21 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part II
Five days after publishing Part One of The Nepal Controversies, and after I contacted the Kathmandu Post's editor-in-chief, Anup Kaphle,...
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 21, 2019
- 1 min
The Fire Truck Expedition short film
Presented by Malcolm McDowell alias Maiko McDonald.
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 18, 2019
- 33 min
THE NEPAL CONTROVERSIES - Part I
In December of 2018, the biggest English-language newspaper in Nepal, the Kathmandu Post, published the first of six front-page,...
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 18, 2019
- 3 min
6th Anniversary of James Gandolfini's Passing
Six Years after James Gandolfini died in Rome, the Fire Truck Expedition carries on the great actor's spirit. James Gandolfini was more...
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
Documentary Film: Start Digging
The proverb "we start digging the well when we see the smoke on the roof," sums up the laissez faire attitude of the Nepalese people. Yet...
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 18, 2019
- 3 min
Shoulders of giants: how the dream almost became reality
A project as ambitious as the fire truck expedition cannot be successful without a team of very talented and dedicated professionals....
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Michael Kobold
- Jun 18, 2019
- 1 min
Ethics in Journalism
The Kathmandu Post is run by a former Washington Post writer. When he moved to Nepal, Anup Kaphle forgot the rules of professional...
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