Digital luggage scale
Hook scale, to ~50 kg
Domestic Nepali flights have a 10-15 kg allowance and they enforce it at the desk in cash — a scale costs less than one excess charge and settles the argument in your hotel room instead of the queue.
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Do not buy this if: Trips with no domestic flight and no porter.
Not every route needs it. These are the ones where our guides would put it on your list.
Everything else we recommend in luggage & cases, including the ones we think suit a different trekker.
Best overallOsprey Farpoint 40
Fits most cabin allowances, which means your kit lands when you do — 40 litres is genuinely tight once a sleeping bag is involved, so this works best when you are renting the bulky items in Kathmandu.
Best organisationPacking cubes (set of 4)
The difference between a duffel you can work out of and a heap you dig through by headlamp — cubes add a little weight and they do not compress anything, whatever the marketing says.
