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
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Trail & Weather
Clearer skies and safer flights in autumn, warmer nights and rhododendrons in spring — here's which season actually fits your Everest Base Camp or Annapurna Base Camp trek.
Industry & Tourism
Since April 2023 most Nepal treks need a licensed guide from a registered agency. The checks to run before you pay a deposit, and the scams they catch.
Safety & Advisories
Age isn't what stops most trekkers on Nepal's trails — ascent pace is. Here's how to pick the right trek by fitness, not birthday, and when the honest answer is 'not yet.'
Industry & Tourism
You can trek Nepal on $40 a day or $300. Here's what a real day on the trail actually costs in 2026 — bed, meals, guide, permits and all — and where the money really goes.
Industry & Tourism
Add up a licensed guide's wage, a porter's wage, real permits and now-mandatory insurance, and a legitimate 12-day Everest Base Camp package is hard to run much below about $1,300. Here is the honest math, and the red flags when a quote lands far under it.
Industry & Tourism
Going private costs about 25 to 30 percent more per person than joining a scheduled group departure — roughly $500 on a 14-day Everest Base Camp trek. Here is exactly where that money goes, and which option suits you.
Industry & Tourism
Both routes end at a wall of ice under an 8,000-metre peak, but the honest answer to which one you should book comes down to your fitness, your calendar and your tolerance for altitude — not marketing copy.
Records & People
The Great Himalaya Trail crosses the entire country beneath all eight of Nepal's 8,000-metre giants. Over a decade on, the number of people who've finished it is still a fraction of Everest's summit list.
Records & People
Nepal's professional trekking porters routinely carry more than their own body weight, balanced on a single strap across the forehead. A biomechanics study set out to explain how — and found they simply endure it.
Festivals & Events
At the climax of a month-long Kathmandu Valley chariot festival, Nepal's president and its child living goddess watch as an official asks the crowd who owns a priceless vest — and for generations, nobody has stepped forward.
Trail & Weather
Scientists spent weeks in Nepal's Kali Gandaki Gorge with weather balloons and found a 60-70 km/h gale that arrives on a near-perfect daily schedule — reliable enough that pilots, farmers and trekkers all plan their whole day around it.
Records & People
Dawa Yangzum Sherpa spent eight years earning a mountain-guide certification almost no Nepali held — then became the first Nepali woman to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks.
Records & People
Hari Chandra Giri began hand-walking as an eight-year-old party trick; today the Nepal Army athlete holds four Guinness World Records, set everywhere from a Kathmandu hilltop stupa to a staircase in China.
Records & People
In 1961, hand-carried aluminium panels and three weeks of bolting at 3,790 metres created the first school of Hillary's Himalayan Trust — a project that still shapes the Everest region today.
Climate & Environment
In the Himalayan high desert of Upper Mustang, farmers are engineering cone-shaped ice towers that store winter water for spring crops — a Ladakh-born trick invented in 2013 that reached Nepal in 2022.
Records & People
Long before you clip into a via ferrata anywhere else, Pokhara already has the world's second-highest bungee jump, one of its steepest ziplines, and a paragliding launch pad at 1,592 metres.
Industry & Tourism
111 short-form videos, seven provinces, and a push toward 'Nepal Wellness Year 2027' — inside the Nepal Tourism Board's first Wellness Reel Competition.
Safety & Advisories
A new mortality study of every Everest expedition since 1921 finds more than three-quarters of climber deaths happen during the descent, not the climb up — and the risk gap between clients and Sherpas is stark.
Industry & Tourism
Nepal runs on a calendar roughly 57 years ahead of the one you use, and a time zone so specific it exists in only three places on Earth. Neither is a typo.
Records & People
In 1920, the villages of Tsum Valley banned hunting, trapping and even honey harvesting. A century on, the law has been written into Nepal's local government code — and the snow leopards are still there.
Records & People
Everest wins on height above sea level. Measure base-to-summit, or from the centre of the Earth, and two other mountains take the title instead.
Trail & Weather
There's no bad time to be in Nepal — but there's absolutely a wrong time to trek the wrong region. Every month of 2026 ranked, plus the month most people get wrong.
Flights & Access
Six decades after Switzerland and Nepal began a quiet engineering partnership, the country has passed 10,000 suspension trail bridges — the steel-cable crossings every trekker, porter and yak train relies on between villages.
Records & People
Annapurna I kills more of its climbers, proportionally, than any other peak over 8,000 metres on Earth. Here is the real math behind that record — and why the wildly popular trek to its base camp is nothing like climbing it.
