Cabin-sized, so your trek does not start with lost luggage
Osprey 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.
Skip it ifAnyone bringing a full expedition kit from home. Take a duffel and check it.
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Pays for itself onceBecause Lukla flights weigh you and charge by the kilo
Digital luggage scale
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.
Skip it ifTrips with no domestic flight and no porter.
Best organisationFinding a clean shirt without emptying the duffel
Packing 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.
Skip it ifMinimalists. Dry bags do this and keep water out as well.