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
A 7,861-metre wall of rock called Nuptse hides all but a sliver of the summit from camp itself. Nearly every iconic 'Everest from Base Camp' photo you've seen was actually taken somewhere else.
Industry & Tourism
A heavy-lift drone crossed Everest's deadliest terrain in eight minutes this spring, hauling out nearly 3 tonnes of trash and rewriting how the mountain gets cleaned.
Culture & Heritage
In 1960 Sir Edmund Hillary carried a Khumjung monastery relic to Chicago to test it. The answer was stranger than the myth, and it is still on show.
Records & People
Eight Sherpa specialists rebuild 5,500 metres of rope and ladders across Everest's most lethal glacier every single climbing season — a job that exists because no summit route can go around it.
Safety & Advisories
Utah climber Shelley Johannesen reached the 8,485-metre summit of Makalu on 9 May 2026. Hours later, a wet-slab avalanche swept her rope team off the mountain — and her story is reshaping how climbers think about descent risk on the world's highest peaks.
Trail & Weather
A community-built, off-road route through Ghandruk, Mohare Danda, Khopra and Mulde Viewpoint is now drawing around 100 trekkers a day — proof the Annapurna region still hides trails no jeep can reach.
Safety & Advisories
A 36-year-old Californian claiming to be an ex-US Special Forces soldier was chased down by villagers and border guards trying to slip into Nepal with no passport, no visa and someone else's ID — a viral moment that exposes exactly how Nepal's real entry rules work.
Records & People
On 27–28 May 2026, Nepali climber Nirmal 'Nims' Purja summited Everest and Lhotse without bottled oxygen in 13 hours 42 minutes — while still guiding paying clients through the mountain's most dangerous window.
Wildlife & Nature
Nepal's 2026 national census counted a record 429 wild tigers, up from 355 in 2022 and 121 in 2009 — a rare conservation comeback.
Records & People
The Kali Gandaki Gorge drops roughly 5,571 metres between two 8,000-metre giants — deeper than the Grand Canyon three times over — and a 228-metre bungee jump now free-falls straight into it.
Wildlife & Nature
Once boys with slingshots outside Chitwan National Park, a generation of Nepali hunters has become the backbone of the country's bird conservation — and its newest bucket-list travel trend.
Records & People
DNA testing has just confirmed the identity of "Green Boots," the most recognizable of the 200-plus bodies still frozen on Everest — and explains why almost none of the others will ever come home.
Safety & Advisories
The thing that quietly ends the most Everest treks early isn't altitude — it's a stomach bug. Here's why it happens, and the six simple rules that keep you off the toilet and on the trail.
Flights & Access
In May 2005 a French test pilot set his skids on the roof of the world for 3 minutes and 50 seconds; twenty-one years later, the record still stands.
Records & People
You don't need to be an athlete. But you do need one specific ability — and most people who turn back never trained for it. Here's the honest fitness bar for EBC.
Industry & Tourism
The trek is "$1,500," they say — then you land home having spent $3,500. Here's the honest, all-in cost of Everest Base Camp, including the bills nobody quotes you upfront.
Records & People
There's a pub with a pool table at 3,440m, Wi-Fi almost the whole way, −15°C nights and one rule every guide whispers: don't order the meat. The honest reality of the EBC trek.
Trail & Weather
Record 2026 arrivals mean the autumn peak — October and November — will be the busiest in years. Here's how to lock in Lukla seats, teahouse beds and permits before they're gone.
Safety & Advisories
Fewer than 0.5% of trekkers die on the way to Everest Base Camp — and it's almost never what you think. Here's the real risk, and how to make it nearly zero.
Flights & Access
With Himalaya Airlines' new Kathmandu–Shenzhen route and direct flights from Guangzhou, Chengdu and Kunming, the Himalaya is a short hop from China. Here's the real trip plan.
Flights & Access
Nepal Airlines flies Kathmandu–Guangzhou direct, three times a week — a ~4.5-hour link that makes the Himalaya far easier to reach for China, Nepal's fast-growing trekking market. Here's the route, the fares and what it means.
Breaking Trail & Weather
It's peak monsoon. The honest, current status: active rain in the hills, a drier west, real flash-flood risk — and whole regions still bone-dry and open for trekking.
Industry & Tourism
Bhutan charges every visitor US$100 a day before a single hotel night. Nepal charges about US$50 in permits for a whole two-week trek. Here's the honest comparison for Himalaya-bound travellers.
Flights & Access
Nepal's biggest domestic carrier just won approval for international operations after a successful Kolkata test flight, with daily Kathmandu–New Delhi service planned first. Here is what it means for trekkers connecting through India.
