Safety & Advisories
Altitude sickness, not crime, is what kills trekkers in Nepal — a fresh ACAP toll and a Kathmandu safety panel show exactly where, and how to avoid…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 22, 2026
Yes — trekking in Nepal is safe for the overwhelming majority of the roughly 1.16 million foreign visitors who arrived in 2025, but the real risk is not crime or landslides, it's altitude, and a fresh government toll shows exactly where it kills. In the…
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ACAP's count for the Annapurna Conservation Area — the single most detailed regional dataset available — breaks down like this: 15 altitude deaths in Mustang district, most of them Indian and Nepali pilgrims who drove up to Muktinath temple (3,710m) rather…
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At a Kathmandu Marriott panel on 31 July 2026, officials from the Nepal Tourism Board, the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal and the National Trust for Nature Conservation agreed that the country's trekking-safety problem is not a lack of information…
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