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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Breaking Industry & Tourism
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation seated a new private-sector board on July 14, 2026 — headlined by an 8,000m expedition operator born in the Makalu valley. Here is who they are and why it matters for anyone booking a Nepal trek.
Records & People
Dolpo’s yak caravans crossed 5,500-metre passes to trade grain for Tibetan salt. A 1959 border closure nearly ended it, and a 1999 film caught what was left.
Records & People
Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista was the 25th king of Lo, tracing his line to a 14th-century warrior — and Nepal only let outsiders into his walled capital in 1992.
Records & People
A group of mountaineers stumbled on a turquoise lake above 5,000 metres in the Annapurna region in 2019. It may already outrank Tilicho as the highest lake on Earth.
Records & People
Bianca Adler summited Everest on May 20, 2026, a year after altitude sickness turned her back within sight of the top — she was already the youngest female climber ever to summit Manaslu.
Records & People
Ultrarunner Tyler Andrews climbed from Everest Base Camp to the summit in 9 hours 55 minutes on 28 May 2026, the fastest oxygen-assisted ascent on record.
Records & People
In 2009, fifty amateurs hauled stumps, a pitch and a pink ball to 5,164 metres and played a full Twenty20 - a record that stood for five years before a mountain in Africa took it back.
Climate & Environment
Thame raised Tenzing Norgay, Apa Sherpa and record-holder Kami Rita Sherpa. In August 2024 a glacial lake almost nobody was watching reached the village in as little as 22 minutes - and a new 2026 study explains why.
Records & People
Rara plunges 167 metres, deeper than any other lake in Nepal, and shifts from sapphire to turquoise as the light crosses it. Few trekkers ever reach it.
Records & People
Above the Kali Gandaki river near Pokhara, a single steel platform now holds two world rankings at once: the highest swing on Earth, and the planet's second-highest bungee jump.
Records & People
Ang Rita Sherpa reached the summit of the world's highest mountain ten separate times, including the only winter ascent in history made without supplemental oxygen — a record that, decades on, no one else has come close to matching.
Records & People
Machapuchare has stood unclimbed since 1957, not because the summit is out of reach, but because Nepal decided some mountains should stay untouched.
Records & People
In 1852, a Bengali mathematician working from a survey office in Calcutta calculated the height of a peak he was forbidden from ever approaching — and gave Mount Everest its place in history.
Records & People
On May 20, more climbers reached the world's highest point within 24 hours than ever before from Nepal's side — the result of a closed Tibet route, a cleared icefall, and one narrow weather window.
Industry & Tourism
The 6th Himalayan Travel Mart drew 600+ delegates from 27 countries to Kathmandu this June — a sign of how fast Nepal's tourism industry is scaling to meet record visitor demand.
Records & People
Eight kilometres short of Everest Base Camp, at an altitude where water boils 18 degrees cooler than at sea level, a Sherpa family still turns out fresh bread and cake every morning.
Permits & Rules
Home to roughly 300 people who still practise a religion older than Buddhism, Nar Phu was closed to every outsider for decades. Here's what it costs to see it now, and why the rules are what they are.
Records & People
Romanian mountaineer Cris Cristea reached the summit on 20 May 2026 after more than 100 days on foot from the Bay of Bengal. Then he turned around and started walking home.
Trail & Weather
A Tribhuvan University study found an average of 42 microplastic particles per litre in Tilicho Lake at 4,917m — and trekkers' synthetic gear and plastic bottles are the source.
Flights & Access
A promised reform to Nepal's two-tier domestic airfares has stalled — here is what foreign trekkers actually pay to fly into the mountains in 2026, and why.
Safety & Advisories
At 5,364 metres, a canvas tent has been the only emergency room between Everest Base Camp and Kathmandu since 2003 — staffed entirely by volunteer doctors who tell a harmless cough from a killer one with nothing but a stethoscope.
Trail & Weather
A rare overnight serac collapse blocked every route through the Khumbu Icefall this spring and stranded hundreds of climbers at Base Camp. A Nepali drone team's centimetre-precision 3D maps, not human scouts, showed the Icefall Doctors where it was safe to rebuild.
Records & People
Everyone asks about Everest. But the trek most first-timers should actually do is Annapurna Base Camp — lower, shorter, forgiving. Here's the honest difficulty, stair by stair.
Records & People
Every May, around 250 runners toe a start line at Everest Base Camp and run a full 42.195km marathon through the thinnest air on the planet — a stretch most trekkers spend two weeks walking.
