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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Safety & Advisories
Four health facilities in Rasuwa are destroyed, Trishuli Hospital has lost its bridges and its medicines, and 1,000 people are in camps with no clean water.
Safety & Advisories
Nepal's disaster authority counts 592 foreign nationals among the missing after the 26 August flood. Here is the official route for families abroad.
Safety & Advisories
Rescuers reached the end of the Rasuwagadhi tunnel and found no one there, and it did not bring 93 workers home because most of them were never in the tunnel.
Climate & Environment
A week of satellite, seismic and drone analysis has settled one thing — no lake burst above Rasuwa. The next one may not come from a lake either.
World Destinations
From Kraków and Budapest to Porto, Sofia and Tirana — the European cities where an old-town weekend costs a fraction of London, Paris or Zurich, why each is cheap, what to see, and the best season to go.
Industry & Tourism
Nepal's Rs 2.7-million-a-kilogram caterpillar fungus season just closed in Dolpa, and four collectors didn't come back down.
Deals & Routes
Alliance round-the-world fares are priced by mileage or continents, flown one direction on a single upfront-booked ticket with a fixed validity. Here is how they work, how they compare with a DIY string of point-to-point flights, and when each one wins.
Safety & Advisories
Drone and ground pictures from Devighat, Trishuli and the Rasuwagadhi tunnels show a valley filled to the second storey with grey silt rather than washed away.
Safety & Advisories
Four named survivors describe running uphill as the market disappeared behind them, and a CCTV timestamp shows how little warning anyone downstream actually had.
Trail & Weather
The permit rules, fines, airfares, flight routes and road closures that changed for Nepal trekkers in 2026, and what to act on before you book.
Safety & Advisories
Pokhara and Kaski were not hit by the 26 August 2026 flood, which came down a different river system. The road in from Kathmandu reopened on 17 September.
Gear & Tech
A pocket Wi-Fi box, a travel router, a phone hotspot, an eSIM or a local SIM — an honest buyer’s guide to what each does, when a device is worth it, and why none of them help where there’s no signal.
Records & People
The China-Tibet Mountaineering Association has kept Cho Oyu and Shishapangma shut to foreign teams for autumn 2026, and Manaslu absorbs the whole overflow.
Safety & Advisories
Washington kept Nepal at Level 2 on 31 August and added a Level 4 do-not-travel zone covering only the Rasuwagadhi–Timure–Syabrubesi corridor in Rasuwa.
Breaking Flights & Access
The Prithvi Highway collapsed at Krishnabhir in Dhading on 30 August. A new track opened one-way on 13 September and to full two-way traffic on the 17th.
Industry & Tourism
A record 701 climbers pushed for the summit this spring, and the mountain's cleanup crews hauled down a record amount of waste right behind them.
Safety & Advisories
A region-wide survey flagged 47 Himalayan lakes as potentially dangerous, 21 of them in Nepal. Where they are, and what they mean for your trek.
Visas & Entry
Remote work crosses borders, and your tax bill follows. The 183-day residency rule, citizenship-based taxation, double-tax treaties and why a nomad visa is not a tax exemption, explained in plain English.
Money & Insurance
Report incidents on the day, keep every receipt, claim inside the deadline, and know who pays first — plus how to escalate to the ombudsman if you're unfairly refused.
Trail & Weather
If you've never trekked above 3,000 metres before, the honest starting point is Poon Hill or Panchase, not Everest Base Camp — here's the real difference in altitude, days and cost.
Safety & Advisories
You do not have to climb a mountain to get altitude sickness. Cusco, La Paz, Lhasa and the ski slopes all sit high enough — here is how AMS works, the golden rules, and why fitness and age will not save you.
Records & People
The greater one-horned rhino nearly vanished from Nepal twice in living memory — and the same country then built one of Asia's strictest anti-poaching operations to bring it back.
Deals & Routes
The three global airline alliances, what they really get you — miles, status, lounges and smoother connections — where the perks stop, and how to concentrate your miles in the right frequent-flyer program for Nepal-bound routings.
Festivals & Events
Four days of fasting, river-standing and dawn offerings
