Is the Makalu Base Camp Trek Affected by the 2026 Nepal Floods?

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

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Why Makalu is a different world from Rasuwa

Nepal is a long country, and a flood in one valley does not reach the next. Its trekking regions are separated by great ranges and drained by rivers that do not meet until far down in the plains of India. The 26 August flood surged down the Bhote Koshi…

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The Makalu Base Camp trek, leg by leg

The clearest way to see why your trek is unaffected is to walk through it as we actually run it and check each stage against the flood zone. Because the whole route sits inside the Makalu Barun National Park, this is a genuine wilderness trek with fewer…

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Is there anything to watch on a Makalu trip?

For Makalu specifically, the honest answer is: the usual remote-trek considerations, none of them flood-related. This is a high, committing walk into thin country — give yourself proper acclimatisation on the way to the 4,870 m base camp, carry…

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What you can book for autumn

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Makalu departures running normally this October and November

This is the departure we are putting people on right now, priced from the per-person rate a small group pays: Makalu Base Camp Trek — 18 days · from US$2,350 per person in a small group of four (solo from US$2,850). The full wilderness walk through the…

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