A vast railway line will be made up of tunnels passing through 105 miles (170km) above the clouds - if Beijing's project ever gets off the ground.

China is building one of the world’s most ambitious railways—across the Himalayas. A megaproject of tunnels, politics, and risk, will this dream railway connect Nepal to the world, or end in disaster?

Nepal's leader arrived in China on Sunday, full of enthusiasm for deepening trade and transportation links.

including a feasibility study of a trans-Himalayan railway. Nepal is also waiting on $740 million (€703 million) worth of China-pledged developmental grants, the Kathmandu Post reported ...

They have begun a feasibility study to build a railway line linking Kathmandu with Kerung in the Tibet Autonomous Region.