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Mardi Himal tops out above Mount Whitney. Island Peak sits within five feet of Denali. And sleeping high, not standing high, is what actually tests…
By Dawa Sherpa · Sep 21, 2026
Most altitude advice is written in metres, and most Americans think in feet, so the numbers slide past without meaning anything. Put them on the same scale and two things jump out. The four-day Mardi Himal trek from Pokhara reaches its upper viewpoint at…
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Here is every number on one ladder. The American summits use the figures their land managers publish today; the Nepal figures are the high points of our own itineraries, converted and rounded to the nearest ten feet, because the metre figures they come from…
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Most people who have been above 14,000 ft in America got there by car, cog railway or a long day hike, stood at the top for an hour, and came down to sleep in a town at a fraction of the height. That is a real exposure to altitude, and it is almost nothing…
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This is the part most operators would leave out. We checked our standard itineraries against the CDC's 1,600-ft-a-day guideline, night by night, and none of them meets it on every single day . Almost no standard route in Nepal does, because the trails…
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Treat this as a starting point for a conversation, not medical advice: If you want the full picture of symptoms, prevention and the medication question, our complete altitude sickness guide covers it. What this page is for is simpler: knowing, in the units…
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