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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Altitude, insurance and on-the-ground safety updates for trekkers.
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Trudy is a Category 3 storm with Puerto Vallarta under a tropical storm watch. Here's what airlines owe you, the WestJet waiver and what insurance won't cover.
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The FCDO now advises against all travel to Amazonas and a 40km Colombian border zone. Here is what that does to your insurance and your flight plans.
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The State Department’s 12 October Level 3 advisory cites missile attacks, exit bans and arrests over social media. Here is what it means for your trip and cover.
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A landslide-dammed river burst on 11 October, leaving five missing and four bridges damaged. Here is what we know and what to check before a Manaslu trip.
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Nepal’s cabinet has moved to cut the wait for declaring a missing person dead from 12 years to 45 days after the 26 August floods. Here is what is and isn’t settled.
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A national public-sector strike hits Belgian trains and buses on 12 October. Brussels Airport expects flights to run, but getting there is the problem.
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Isaias came ashore near Destin as a Category 2 and is now a post-tropical storm. Rain of 4 to 15 inches and 668,000 outages are the problem for weekend travellers.
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The FCDO page, updated 9 October, advises against all but essential travel to the whole of Eritrea. Going anyway can invalidate your insurance.
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The FCDO updated Bangladesh advice on 9 October: crowds 16–21 October, fuel sale caps, Middle East airspace disruption and flood risk. Insurance fine print applies.
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USGS puts it at 7.7, with a 6.6 aftershock. The tsunami threat has passed and Tocumen airport has reopened. What to do now, and what you are owed.
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An Avianca flight from Medellín to JFK diverted to Miami with eight passengers hospitalised. Here is what the rules say about injury claims and seat belts.
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Smartraveller says methanol poisoning can look like a bad hangover for 12–24 hours. Here’s what Australian school leavers and parents should know before flying.
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Smartraveller's schoolies advice says no insurance can mean paying costs up to $100,000. Here is what that covers, what it doesn't, and what parents should check.
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A 16-year-old hiker was airlifted off Crown Mountain near Vancouver after an AI-planned route ended at a climbing route. Here is how to use apps without trusting them blind.
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A Malaysian travelling alone vanished near Rasuwa on 25 August and turned up safe on 2 October. Here is what his case says about the 54 still missing.
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UAE prosecutors call the FZ1073 cockpit attack a terrorist act. Here is what is confirmed, what is not, and what rights you have if a Gulf flight is cancelled.
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A 78-year-old and a 66-year-old died three days apart on Washington's Sauk Mountain trail, which has now killed at least five hikers since 2017.
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Landslides have cut off Samagaun on our Manaslu Circuit route, trapping dozens of trekkers since Saturday night. Here's the real status and what to do.
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An avalanche hit Himlung Himal's base camp in Manang on 26 September. By 1 October, 15 Nepali workers had been found dead and one was still missing.
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Both cost the same permit and sit within 70 metres of each other in altitude, but our guides say the harder climb isn't the one most people assume.
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Jordan Yap, 30, hasn’t been heard from since he set off solo into Peru’s Huayhuash range on 14 September — Nepal’s guide rule exists for this.
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A month after Nepal's flood, disaster officials say 5,644 people remain missing, 1,453 bodies have been recovered, and the rebuild will cost $4.77 billion.
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Real studies from Everest and Nepal’s Dhaulagiri circuit show blood sugar swings both ways at altitude, and which trek actually suits type 1 diabetes.
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Cold dry air can trigger asthma at altitude, but studies show reduced allergens help many trekkers breathe easier — here’s which Nepal trek fits.
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Banff National Park logged seven hiking deaths in 2026, the latest an off-duty guide who died solo on Recondite Peak this September.
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Tony Hall, 42, died when his plane crashed near Leukerbad on 15 September, and the crash fits a well-documented mountain-flying pattern.
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Mountain rescue saved a Lake District walker for free after nearly 13 hours. In Nepal the same call-out can cost $3,000-$10,000 without insurance.
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A rescue beacon gets you help faster once something goes wrong. It has never stopped anyone getting lost, hurt, or caught by a storm in the first place.
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A shooting briefly shut part of Miami airport's departure level Wednesday. Here's the timeline, and what to do if you're flying through MIA this week.
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Tigray forces seized three Ethiopian airports on 23 September 2026 — Addis Ababa's hub is unaffected, but four Ethiopian regions remain Do Not Travel.
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Polo reached Category 5 with winds near 180 mph off Mexico's Pacific coast. Here's what the NHC, US Embassy and FCDO are telling travellers about Cabo.
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Altitude raises blood pressure and some heart drugs slow acclimatisation, but most controlled hypertension does not rule out an Everest Base Camp trek.
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3,471 cases by 17 September, against 2,289 in all of 2025. The CDC wants every traveller aged six months and up vaccinated two weeks before leaving.
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Four dead, six missing and 275 flights cancelled as Typhoon Dujuan hit Tokyo, here's what the US, UK and Australia are actually telling travellers.
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The UK, US and Australia now advise against non-essential UAE travel, and several airlines are still avoiding Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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The US rates the UAE a Level 3 risk while the UK just says 'stay alert' — what each government is actually telling you before you fly.
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A record 493 permits, two deaths on Sunday, and heavy rain forecast from 24 September. Some teams are climbing, some are waiting, and one has gone home.
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Mexico is Level 2 overall, but six states are do-not-travel and two are Level 1. Cancún, Los Cabos and Mexico City all sit at Level 2.
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Six named storms, zero hurricanes, the latest start of the satellite era. NOAA still says one storm is enough, and the peak runs into October.
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An Indian-born German climber and his Nepali Sherpa guide were found under about seven feet of snow on 20 September, in a season with record permits.
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Of 214 destinations the State Department rates, 23 are do-not-travel. Nepal carries the same level as France, Italy and Spain.
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The body clock shifts about an hour a day going east, and Kathmandu is nearly ten hours ahead of New York. Here is how to plan the first days around it.
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Yes, on the right route: a fit child of 5-7 can manage a low trek like Poon Hill, most operators want 12-14 for Everest Base Camp, and the altitude rule for children is the same as for adults.
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A September 2026 study of the Hindu Kush Himalaya's roughly 40,000 glaciers, only 21 of which are monitored on the ground, warns the rivers trekkers cross every day are approaching the point where they stop rising and start shrinking for good.
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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.
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A calm, accurate guide to routine and travel vaccines by region — from hepatitis A and typhoid to yellow-fever certificates, and why malaria is pills, not a jab.
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Khadak Raj Paudel says the floods hit specific places, not the whole country, and the trails are open. Where he is right, and the bit he leaves out.
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There is no legal or medical age cutoff on the trail to Everest Base Camp, and the current record holder just proved it at 82.
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