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The China-Tibet Mountaineering Association has kept Cho Oyu and Shishapangma shut to foreign teams for autumn 2026, and Manaslu absorbs the whole…
By Dawa Sherpa · Aug 31, 2026
Cho Oyu (8,188 m / 26,864 ft) and Shishapangma (8,027 m / 26,335 ft) are closed to foreign expeditions again this autumn. The China-Tibet Mountaineering Association has not reopened either peak for the 2026 fall season, ExplorersWeb reported on 24 August. Two…
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The reason is administrative, not a mountain problem. Neither peak has become more dangerous and neither has a route that stopped working. ExplorersWeb traces the closure to the fallout from a fireworks display staged near Shigatse in September 2025, which…
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The price gap is part of why the closure reshapes a season rather than merely inconveniencing it. Tibet was roughly triple Nepal on a comparable peak, and the money followed the permit.
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Nepal's Department of Tourism expects around 300 permits to go to international climbers on Manaslu this autumn. That is down on 2025, when 381 permits were issued and the season produced 659 summits counting foreign and Nepali climbers, with some Sherpa…
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The number that gets quoted is the permit count. It is the wrong number. Three hundred climbers spread across three mountains and six weeks is an ordinary season. Three hundred climbers on one mountain, on one line of fixed rope, waiting on the same weather…
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