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.
Deals & Routes
The "book on a Tuesday" rule is dead. Two of the biggest airfare datasets agree on when to actually book — and what it means for flights to Kathmandu.
Gear & Tech
eSIM, local SIM or roaming? Here's what each really costs in 2026, which one holds a signal on the trek, and how to pick for a Nepal trip or a longer Asia swing.
Visas & Entry
Where you can still land with almost no paperwork in 2026 - the visa-free, visa-on-arrival and eVisa countries for US, UK, EU and Indian travellers, with Nepal as the friendliest border of all.
Industry & Tourism
The 48th World Heritage Committee met in Busan and inscribed 25 new sites — from the D-Day beaches and Mount Olympus to the Buddhist site of Sarnath. Here is the full 2026 list, and why it matters from Nepal.
Industry & Tourism
Singapore tops the latest Henley Passport Index with visa-free access to 192 destinations, and the US slips to 10th. The full 2026 ranking, and Nepal.
Industry & Tourism
Screen-inspired travel is now a projected US$8 billion business, and 2026's biggest spikes — Muskoka, Yorkshire, Rome — show why the real adventure set never needed a streaming release.
Flights & Access
flydubai's first daily Dubai–Pokhara service, a new Kathmandu–Shenzhen route and extra Nepal Airlines flights to Tokyo are quietly reshaping how travellers reach the Himalaya in 2026.
Industry & Tourism
A wave of new digital paperwork and higher fees hit travellers in 2026 — Europe’s biometric EES is live, the UK ETA is now £20 and US ESTA jumped to $40, while ETIAS is delayed again. Here’s who pays what, verified as of August 2026 — and why Nepal stays visa-on-arrival for almost everyone.
Records & People
Phunjo Jhangmu Lama is Nepal's first woman qualified to fly high-altitude long-line helicopter rescues, and in May 2024 she climbed Everest from Base Camp to summit in 14 hours 31 minutes — the fastest ascent by any woman.
Industry & Tourism
Bangkok, Bali and Rio are topping every 2026 booking and awards list. Here's what the verified data actually says — and why a Pokhara editor thinks the Himalaya is the trip nobody's ranking.
Industry & Tourism
Capri, Mallorca, Venice and Barcelona spent 2026 turning tourists away — here's the honest case for Nepal's Himalaya, where visitors are still wanted and the trails still empty out.
Wildlife & Nature
Sagarmatha National Park is famous for one mountain — but genetic testing shows the ghost cats that disappeared from its slopes two generations ago have quietly recolonised it.
Records & People
Long before Nepal became a bucket-list trekking destination, one Kathmandu Valley teenager designed a monument so revered that a Chinese premier personally ordered it saved from the Cultural Revolution.
Records & People
In 1993, three sisters in Pokhara trained Nepal's first female trekking guides because none existed. More than 2,000 women later, four AFLW athletes just trekked Nepal with an all-female crew as women-only bookings jumped 32% in a year.
Breaking Records & People
Rescuers located the bodies of three foreign climbers and two Nepali nationals on August 8, 2026 — nine months after an avalanche buried Yalung Ri's base camp on the closed Tibet border.
Records & People
Stephane Champoussin finished the Great Himalayan Trail on August 1, becoming one of barely 130 people to ever cross Nepal end to end on foot, through Kanchenjunga, Makalu and the Manaslu Circuit.
Records & People
Nadhira Al Harthy failed her first mountain in 2015, then reached Everest's summit four years later. On July 30, 2026, an avalanche below Camp III on Pakistan's Broad Peak ended her climb toward the 8,000-metre club.
Trail & Weather
The Annapurna Sanctuary is a 4,130-metre basin walled in by peaks over 7,000 metres on every side — a place so shadowed it sees just seven hours of sun a day, even in summer.
Records & People
Since the first recorded deaths in 1922, upward of 300 people have died attempting the world's highest mountain — and the physics of altitude means most of them never leave it.
Industry & Tourism
At 3,775 metres above Namche Bazaar, Sagarmatha Next turns Everest's decades of climbing waste into art — and it sits directly on the trail every Everest Base Camp trekker already walks.
Climate & Environment
One trek, one conservation area, four climate zones and 1,226 species of wildflowers — the numbers behind Nepal's most complete walk through the Himalaya.
Breaking Safety & Advisories
Four religions call it the center of the universe. In 2026, Indian pilgrims travelling the Nepal route got stuck in Kathmandu without the right paperwork — here's the whole story, verified.
Safety & Advisories
No ropes, no crevasses on the standard route — but four in ten trekkers report a medical incident. Here is what a peer-reviewed study of Everest trekkers actually found.
Industry & Tourism
Applications opened this week for Tourism Expo Japan and World Travel Market London — the two trade floors where Nepal's tourism industry spends the next three months courting the agents and media who decide how you hear about a trek here.
