KATHMANDU, NEPAL
Residents scavenge through the rubble of their destroyed homes four days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, killing more than 8,000 people and flattening buildings and ancient temples.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL
In retrospect, the choice to book a ground-floor room was a sound one.
On Saturday, April 25, Andy Fraser lay in bed at the Rokpa Guest House, a modest three-story hotel in Nepal’s ancient capital, a city of 1 million sunk in a valley bordered by the Himalayan range. Fraser, a powerfully built 38-year-old British wilderness paramedic with a shaved head and prominent brow, had arrived a few weeks earlier for an extended business trip. A lifelong adventurer, he’d cut his teeth in London’s frenetic ambulance service, taught English at a salmon farm on an island in Chile,…