About the Writing
The Goreto is written from the inside.
Our editorial team is Nepali. We research from documented local knowledge: trekkers who know these routes with their boots, communities that have lived alongside these landscapes for generations, people whose understanding of Nepal runs several layers deeper than anything a guidebook covers. When we write about a place, we draw on what those people have observed, recorded, and lived.
Every article is built to a standard: real accounts, specific details, named places, honest assessments of what a place is actually like. We do not write about Nepal from a distance. We do not write about it as tourists either.
The editor
Akanshya Regmi — Editorial Director
Akanshya studied journalism before turning to sociology for her graduate work, a combination that left her permanently suspicious of easy narratives and very good at finding the hidden assumptions inside a story. She spent time reporting for a national economic daily before teaching sociology at colleges across Kathmandu, bringing both the reporter's instinct and the academic's rigour to every piece The Goreto publishes.
She was born and raised in Nepal. She reads the country the way a sociologist reads a text: looking for what the surface reveals, what it conceals, and what it is not yet ready to say.
Write for The Goreto
We publish contributors who know Nepal from the inside.
If you have trekked extensively in Nepal, lived here, worked with local communities, or carry specific expertise in Nepali culture, food, architecture, natural history, or mountain environments, we want to hear from you.
We are not looking for trip reports or listicles. We are looking for writers who have something specific to say about a place that could only come from someone who has genuinely been there.