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.
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Safety & Advisories
A July 2025 death near K2's infamous Bottleneck is the latest reminder of why this narrow, ice-hung couloir has claimed climbers for seven decades — including 11 in a single day in 2008.
Trail & Weather
On November 3, 2025, an avalanche buried a climbing camp on Yalung Ri, a 5,630-metre peak in Nepal's Rolwaling valley, in one of the deadliest single Himalayan avalanches in over a decade.
Records & People
Emma Schwerin summited Everest on 15 May 2025 aged 17 years, 2 months and 24 days, finishing the Seven Summits with her father beside her on every peak.
Records & People
Former British Gurkha Hari Budha Magar, born in a Himalayan village in Nepal's Rolpa district, became the first double above-knee amputee to complete the Seven Summits when he reached Antarctica's Mount Vinson on 6 January 2026.
Records & People
Russian veteran Rustam Nabiev spent about a week — instead of the usual three or four days — hauling himself past the Khumbu Icefall and up the world's highest mountain without prosthetic legs, becoming the first person on record to summit Everest this way.
Trail & Weather
Wi-Fi reaches almost to the summit route and the world's highest Irish pub sits two days below it — but hot water runs out fast. Here's what first-time Everest Base Camp trekkers actually find on the trail.
Safety & Advisories
In April a collapsing wall of ice sealed every route to Everest's summit near the spot that killed 16 Sherpa guides in 2014. Months later, a drone did in one afternoon what usually takes weeks on foot.
Safety & Advisories
Brian Roberts died in a Mount Bailey avalanche after guides allegedly dismissed an official danger report — the lawsuit is a case study in what to ask before you hire any backcountry guide.
Safety & Advisories
Thomas Plamberger was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence after Kerstin Gurtner froze to death on the Grossglockner — a verdict climbers say could redraw the line between a bad decision and a crime.
Breaking Industry & Tourism
Investigators say guides, helicopter firms and hospitals conspired for years to manufacture emergencies — here's what actually happened, and how to make sure your own rescue, if you ever need one, is real.
Records & People
Five climbers died on Mount Everest in 2026, against a record 1,008 summits. Here is every name, date and cause, and why a sixth man on most lists is alive.
Safety & Advisories
A roped Latvian team came off Denali Pass at 18,200 feet in May 2026 — the same stretch that accounts for most of the mountain's deaths. Here's what the survivor's ten-hour wait for rescue says about exposed high routes anywhere.
Flights & Access
One bottleneck airport and one two-week festival shape the whole month — know which part of October you're aiming for and the risk mostly disappears.
Trail & Weather
Nepal's average monsoon withdrawal date is October 2 — but the real answer depends on which side of the Himalaya you're standing on.
Safety & Advisories
From trail safety to altitude to the latest advisories, here's a straight answer for US travellers wondering whether Nepal is safe to visit and trek in 2026.
Safety & Advisories
Three months is enough if you already hike. Six if you are starting from zero, and a trekker study suggests your itinerary matters almost as much as training.
Industry & Tourism
Government figures show foreign tourists lingering longer than ever while daily spending sits near a 30-year low. The number is real, but it is measuring a very different traveller than someone booking an organized trek.
Safety & Advisories
Updated 2 October 2026. Late-September rain cut the Kathmandu–Pokhara road back to one-way at Krishnabhir, and the roads to Manang and Mustang are cut.
Industry & Tourism
A cable car to Muktinath, billed as the world’s longest, won investment approval in June 2025. Environmental approval is pending, and nothing is built.
Permits & Rules
Nepal announced a five-year digital nomad visa in May 2025 with a one-year target. It has not launched yet. What was proposed, and what to do meanwhile.
Industry & Tourism
Indians need no visa and pay no fee for Nepal. August arrivals fell after a record 2025 month and the floods shut the Kailash crossing. What is open now.
Permits & Rules
Nepal scrapped the decades-old flat $500 / 10-day Upper Mustang permit for a pay-as-you-go $50-per-day model. Short trips to Lo Manthang just got dramatically cheaper.
Records & People
Hillary Dawa Sherpa, 52, survived six days above 17,000 feet with no food, water or oxygen after a solo fall near Camp 3. Officials are calling it nothing short of a miracle.
Permits & Rules
A Chinese drone can now haul a season's oxygen bottles up the Khumbu Icefall in ten minutes flat. When an American rival tried to join it this spring, Nepal grounded them both.
