Nepal floods: Everest, Annapurna and Manaslu are unaffected and running normally.
The 26 August flood hit one corridor in northern Rasuwa. Langtang-region treks are paused while the access road is rebuilt — everything else is operating as usual.
Founder & Editor · since 1998
Laxman founded Travel Himalaya Nepal in 1998 and still signs off on every article. He carries editorial responsibility for the news desk — the breaking permit and flight changes, the safety advisories, and the hard coverage when things go wrong on the trails, including the 2026 floods. When a story touches loss of life, an official figure, or a family, it runs under his name because the accountability does. His rule for the desk is the same as his rule on the mountain: verify it, or do not say it.
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Safety & Advisories
Nepal Police have identified 95 of more than 1,200 bodies recovered. Families abroad can be DNA-profiled at home and send the result in. Here is how it works.
Records & People
The number on every map, 8,848.86 metres, only became official on 8 December 2020, after two countries spent over a decade measuring the same mountain and getting two different answers.
Records & People
Six sacred glacial lakes above Everest sit higher than almost any freshwater on Earth, and the colour that makes trekkers stop mid-stride comes down to stone ground fine enough to float.
Records & People
Nepal's national flower isn't grown in a garden bed — it's a forest tree that turns entire hillsides red for about six weeks a year, and the bloom climbs the mountain in a predictable wave.
Records & People
Every campfire story about the kukri insists a Gurkha must draw blood before sheathing it again — actual Gurkhas, and two centuries of British Army history, say otherwise.
Flights & Access
It is a precision pressure valve, and it is the reason your photo of a Himalayan skyline from 35,000 feet doesn't come out fogged over.
Trail & Weather
One is a five-day sprint to 5,895 metres, the other a fourteen-day walk to 5,364 — the honest trade-off between them comes down to acclimatization, not fitness.
Flights & Access
Ten days is possible, fourteen is what most operators actually recommend, and the flight into Lukla is why you should budget more time than either number, not less.
Records & People
Phoksundo's turquoise water and no-fishing custom are real, but Nepal's own hydrology surveys put the actual depth record on a different lake entirely.
Flights & Access
flydubai starts daily Dubai–Pokhara flights on 23 September 2026, the first scheduled international airline to serve Nepal's trekking capital since its $216 million airport opened in 2023.
Records & People
A grainy 1951 photograph near Everest launched a global legend, until a 2017 study tested nine 'yeti' samples and found six bears of one kind, three of another, and a dog.
Records & People
Geologists say the ground beneath Kathmandu's temples and guesthouses sat underwater for the better part of a million years, and the same soft lakebed sediment is a documented reason the city shakes so hard when an earthquake hits.
