From Bangladesh to the Himalayas

The country now boasts a growing roster of communities that view the Himalayas as a second home.

For decades, Nepal occupied a distinct, romantic corner of the Bangladeshi imagination. It was a land of prayer flags, thin air and the distant, blinding white of the Himalayas—a playground for the eccentric few. Today, romance has yielded to a booming market. Kathmandu has become the undisputed capital of adventure travel for a burgeoning Bangladeshi middle class.