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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Industry & Tourism
Taking a sabbatical or gap year? Nepal is the classic time-out destination — a few weeks in the Himalaya that resets everything. Here's how to plan the trip of your life.
Industry & Tourism
For roughly the cost of a week in a U.S. ski town, Americans are flying to Nepal to walk beneath the highest mountains on Earth. Here's why the Himalaya became the American hiker's dream trip in 2026.
Trail & Weather
As Japan's sakura fades, Nepal's hillsides bloom red with rhododendron. Spring — clear skies, warm days, flowers — is one of the two best times to trek the Himalaya. Here's where to go.
Festivals & Events
For Thai, Singaporean and Malaysian Buddhists, Lumbini is the ultimate pilgrimage — the very place the Buddha was born. Here's how to visit it, paired with Kathmandu's great stupas.
Trail & Weather
Roads have crept onto the legendary Annapurna Circuit — so is the classic trek ruined? Not even close. Here's how to walk the best of it in 2026 and skip the dust.
Trail & Weather
When Dubai hits 45°C, the rain-shadow Himalaya stays cool, green and dry. Here's the one Nepal region you can trek right through the summer — and how to reach it from the Gulf.
Records & People
Fifty years after Junko Tabei became the first woman atop Everest, Nepal's gentler trails are ideal for older and women trekkers. Here's how to walk the Himalaya at your own pace.
Trail & Weather
Same Dhaulagiri sunrises, a fraction of the foot traffic. The newly opened Khopra Danda ridge is the quiet Annapurna alternative seasoned trekkers are quietly switching to in 2026.
Flights & Access
There are no direct flights from Australia or New Zealand to Nepal — but the route is simpler than it looks. Here's the smart way to reach the Everest trailhead, and what it costs.
Flights & Access
Dubai is just 4.5 hours from Kathmandu, with daily flights. For time-poor Gulf expats, the Himalaya is the closest world-class adventure there is. Here's how to fit Everest into your leave.
Safety & Advisories
Nepal now wants proof of insurance covering helicopter evacuation to 6,000m before it issues your trek permit — and a high-altitude rescue can cost $10,000. Here's exactly what your policy must include.
Records & People
In May 1956 a Japanese team stood atop Manaslu — and helped start a friendship between two mountain nations. Seventy years on, the "Mountain of the Spirit" is calling Japanese trekkers back.
Trail & Weather
Nepal's highest trekking peak shows you five of the world's six highest mountains from the top, and its standard route needs no technical climbing.
Industry & Tourism
A decade after the 2015 earthquake, the Langtang Valley has rebuilt — and trekking here is now one of the most meaningful things you can do in Nepal. It's the closest big trek to Kathmandu, too.
Trail & Weather
The Annapurna Circuit made teahouse trekking famous; the Manaslu Circuit is what it used to feel like. Here's how to choose between Nepal's two great loops in 2026.
Trail & Weather
Turquoise glacial lakes, the Khumbu's best Everest view, and a fraction of the crowds. Here's why Gokyo is the Everest-region trek for those in the know.
Industry & Tourism
China quietly shut the north (Tibet) side of Everest for 2026, funnelling the entire season onto Nepal's south side. Here's what the closure means — and why it made an already record year even bigger.
Records & People
On the same May day Kami Rita logged his 32nd Everest summit, Lhakpa Sherpa extended her own record to 11, the most Everest ascents by any woman.
Wildlife & Nature
In a landmark for one of the planet's most elusive cats, Nepal has produced its first national snow leopard estimate: 397, concentrated in Dolpo and Manaslu — alongside another near-perfect year against poachers.
Industry & Tourism
Calm lake mornings, Himalayan sunrises and a paraglide over Phewa Lake — Pokhara is South Asia's most underrated romantic escape. Here's how to plan it.
Trail & Weather
No flight, no extreme altitude, teahouses the whole way — Annapurna Base Camp is the friendliest route to the foot of an 8,000-metre Himalayan giant. Here's why it's the perfect first trek.
Records & People
Tshering Pasang Sherpa stood on the summit of Everest on 20 May 2026 at just 16 — among the youngest Nepalis ever to do it, and only because he had finally reached the minimum age the rules allow.
Trail & Weather
Not the highest or the hardest, yet mountaineers rank its ridgeline above Everest. The peak, the hanging glacier it is named for, and the view from below.
Industry & Tourism
Nepal is the easiest international family holiday from India — no visa, short flights, rupees accepted. Here's how to plan a 6–8 day Kathmandu–Pokhara family trip.
