Nepal is open for the autumn season, and glad you are coming.
Everest, Annapurna and Thorong La are open. Langtang treks stay paused while the Rasuwa road is rebuilt; Mustang and Manang roads are still being repaired.
News desk
Every story, newest first.
Gear & Tech
A practical reference to the world's plug types (A/B, C/E/F, G, D/M, I), the ~120V vs ~230V split, and the one rule that saves your devices: an adapter reshapes the pins, it does not convert voltage.
Records & People
At 22,943 feet, Machapuchare towers over the Annapurna Sanctuary, and by Nepal's own law, no one has legally set foot on its true summit since a British team turned back 150 feet short of it in 1957.
Festivals & Events
The Tibetan-Buddhist New Year of Nepal's high country, explained.
Visas & Entry
The youth-mobility schemes that let young travellers live and work abroad for a year or two — the usual 18–30/35 age cap, which nationalities qualify for which country, and why the quota-capped ones run out.
Money & Insurance
The claim is not paid because you bought a policy — it is paid because nothing in the exclusions applies. Here are the standard exclusions that catch travellers out, and how to read them before you buy.
Industry & Tourism
Both are sold as 'base camp treks' but they differ by 1,400 metres of altitude, a week of walking and a coin-flip mountain flight — here is how to pick the right one for your fitness, budget and time.
Safety & Advisories
Rajendra Dawadi was teaching when the calls came from upstream. Minutes later Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School was gone, and every child who had been inside it was not.
Safety & Advisories
Days before Nepal's autumn trekking season opens, two of the country's oldest mountain-safety institutions ran back-to-back wilderness first-aid courses for working guides, drilling CPR, patient evacuation and the earliest signs of altitude sickness.
Flights & Access
The national carrier adds a fourth weekly Kathmandu-Narita rotation from 18 September, wide-body A330 and all, timed squarely at the Dashain-Tihar homecoming rush and the autumn trekking peak that follows it.
Trail & Weather
No - November is often the clearest month of the whole year, and after the festival crowds go home around 10 November the trails empty out while the skies stay 150km-sharp. Here's exactly what changes, and when it really does get too cold.
Money & Insurance
A guided Manaslu Circuit runs about US$1,550 to US$2,100 per person in autumn 2026 - and since 22 March the old two-person permit rule is gone, so lone walkers no longer pay for a phantom second permit. Here's the honest, line-by-line breakdown.
Records & People
For most of the year the jet stream sits on Everest’s summit. It lifts for a few weeks in May as the monsoon pushes it aside, and only then can anyone climb.
Records & People
Everest has over 12,000 ascents; Annapurna I and Kangchenjunga barely a few hundred each. The gap between the eight-thousanders is not about height.
Records & People
In 2019 a record 381 permits funnelled onto Everest during just two good-weather days put hundreds of climbers in a single queue above 8,000 m. Eleven died. The crowd, not the mountain, was the danger.
Safety & Advisories
Altitude sickness is not one illness but three — AMS, HACE and HAPE. Here is how to tell them apart, the symptoms that signal an emergency, and the four golden rules that prevent all three.
Records & People
K2 is 238 m shorter than Everest but kills roughly one climber in ten — a dimension-by-dimension comparison of height, technical difficulty, weather, rescue and death rate, and why K2 is “the Savage Mountain.”
Records & People
On 10–11 May 1996 a storm caught climbers high on Everest and eight people died. The sequence, the names, and the lessons that reshaped guided climbing — recounted with respect.
Records & People
Why a guided Everest expedition runs from about US$35,000 to well over US$100,000 — the permit, the oxygen, the Sherpa team and the logistics, line by line, with real 2026 numbers.
Records & People
How Nirmal 'Nims' Purja climbed every 8,000-metre mountain in 189 days in 2019, shattering a record that had stood almost eight years — and how the speed record has fallen twice since. Every date and time sourced.
Records & People
By deaths per summit, Guinness ranks Annapurna I the deadliest mountain in the Himalaya. The numbers behind it, next to Dhaulagiri and Everest.
Records & People
From the 2014 Khumbu Icefall to the earthquake that swept Everest Base Camp in 2015 — the deadliest avalanches in Nepal's mountains, their causes and tolls, recorded with respect.
Records & People
Mount Everest's verified record book — who has summited most, who was oldest and youngest on top, and the fastest ascent ever timed, with every name, number and year sourced.
Safety & Advisories
Short answer: no. Lobuche Peak (6,119 m) is an NMA climbing peak in the Everest region, reached via Lukla on the Dudh Koshi — a separate watershed from the Rasuwa flood. The route is unaffected; the only real variable is monsoon-season Lukla flights.
Safety & Advisories
Short answer: no. This short trek runs the Kathmandu Valley rim through Shivapuri National Park, in a different watershed from the Rasuwa flood.
