Soldiers trek with weighted baskets in Gurkha race

Soldiers from the British Army took part in a gruelling Gurkha race where they carried weighted baskets on an uphill course.
The Northern Echo

Great North Run is training for Gurkha troops from Catterick Garrison

A GROUP of 200 Gurkhas are tackling an iconic 10k race as part of their UK cultural training programme. The Nepalese soldiers are doing a 39 week training course at Catterick Garrison and the ...
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Kian84 endures Gurkha training challenges on 'Born to Explore the World 4'

Kian84 challenged himself with Gurkha training in Nepal on the show 'Born to Explore the World 4.' On the broadcast of MBC's variety show 'Born to Explore the World 4' (hereinafter 'Explore the World ...
Los Angeles Times

Nepal’s fierce Gurkha soldiers find themselves under siege

Reporting from Katmandu, Nepal — Deo Man Limbu sat in a veterans hall lined with pictures of old soldiers and reflected on his years of service, his battles and his dreams. The retired major with ...
The New York Times

Gurkha Veterans Fight a Colonial-Era Legacy Still Shaping Nepal

Nepal’s best and brightest have been recruited while young to fight for Britain for over 200 years, with their pay and pensions a fraction of their fellow British soldiers’ for much of that time. By ...
SFGate

Gurkhas have 200-year military tradition

Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight - and die - with legendary valor for another man's country far away. In an ...
Nepali Times

Girl Gurkhas

Deepa Ghising remembers being fascinated by how professionally soldiers of the Nepal Army handled clashes during the 2017 elections, and defused the situation. She decided there and then on a military ...