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In 1957 a British team stopped 150 feet short of Machapuchare's summit and kept their word never to finish it — Nepal has banned every climber from…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 26, 2026
Fly into Pokhara and the first thing you see rising over the lake isn't Annapurna — it's a slender, twin-fanged spike of rock and ice that looks close enough to touch. Machapuchare, the Fish's Tail, is 6,993 metres (22,943 feet) high, has been stared at by…
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What this means for you You cannot get a permit to climb Machapuchare, and sacred-mountain politics aside, no operator should want one. What you can do is walk directly underneath it. The Annapurna Base Camp trek climbs into the Annapurna Sanctuary with…
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