Safety & Advisories

Is the Khopra Danda Trek Affected by the 2026 Nepal Floods?

Short answer: no. The Khopra Danda (Khopra Ridge) trek sits in the Annapurna region, reached from Pokhara, and is running normally. The 26 August…

By Bishnu Adhikari · Aug 29, 2026

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The honest answer up front: no. The Khopra Danda trek is not affected by the 2026 floods, and it is running normally. Khopra Danda — also called Khopra Ridge — is a quiet ridge walk in the southern Annapurna region, reached from Pokhara. The flood that made…

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Where Khopra Danda actually is — and why the flood can't reach it

The trek climbs a long grassy ridge on the south-west shoulder of the Annapurna Sanctuary, topping out at Khopra Danda around 3,660 m , with an optional day up to the sacred Khayer Lake near 4,660 m . You start from Pokhara. The whole route drains toward the…

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The one thing worth being honest about

There was a separate flood earlier in the season, in July, on the Modi Khola — the river gorge the Annapurna Base Camp trail follows — which damaged a bridge near Ghurjung. That is real, and we have written about it. But Khopra Danda does not use the Modi…

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How we run Khopra safely

Khopra is one of the calmer treks we operate, and the safety picture is straightforward. The trail lives on the ridge , high above the valley rivers, so the flash-flood and swollen-river risk that worries people in monsoon simply isn't the hazard here — you…

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