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Maybe, said Deependra Basnet, a 28-year-old software engineer living in Kent, this trip would motivate him to go home and climb Nepal’s mountains.

“No excitement. He was already elected prime minister twice but did nothing for us,” said Saroj Basnet, 45, a businessman from Lalitpur, near the capital, Kathmandu.

What little hope he found in the election, Mr. Basnet said, came “from new faces who are joining government as ministers.”

Keshav Raj Basnet runs a thriving beekeeping business, earning $5,000 a year from 12 hives.

His older brother, Vijaya Basnet, doubled his annual income after getting a job to help manage the forest.