Safety & Advisories

Is the Dhaulagiri Circuit Trek Affected by the 2026 Nepal Floods?

No — the Dhaulagiri Circuit runs on the Kali Gandaki in western Nepal, a separate watershed well to the west of the flood zone, and the trail and its…

By Bishnu Adhikari · Aug 29, 2026

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📍 Developing story — live updates The 2026 Nepal floods are a nationwide, still-developing emergency and the figures are rising. For the latest verified death toll, missing and rescued numbers and region-by-region trek status, follow our continuously updated…

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Why Myagdi and Rasuwa are different worlds

Nepal is not one small place where a single flood touches everything. Its regions are split by great ranges and drained by separate rivers that stay apart until the plains. The 26 August flood surged down the Bhote Koshi , which flows out of Tibet into Rasuwa…

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Dhaulagiri, stage by stage

The clearest way to see why your trek is fine is to walk it as we run it and check each stage against the flood zone. The permits — the ACAP entry for the Kali Gandaki side and the trekking paperwork — are arranged in Kathmandu or Pokhara before you set out…

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How we run Dhaulagiri this autumn

This is the one trek on this list where I want to talk about difficulty, not floods, because that is the real subject. The Dhaulagiri Circuit is self-supported camping over two high passes with genuine objective hazard — it earns its reputation. We build…

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What you can book for autumn

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Dhaulagiri departures running normally this October and November

These are the trips we are putting people on right now, priced from the per-person rate a small group pays: Dhaulagiri Circuit Trek — 18 days · from US$2,250 per person in a group of eight (US$3,490 solo). The full circuit over the French Col and…

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