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Machapuchare's twin summit rises 6,993 metres above Pokhara — and for more than sixty years, Nepal has refused every application to stand on top of…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 28, 2026
Stand on the shore of Phewa Lake in Pokhara at sunrise and the mountain in front of you turns rose-gold before anything else in the sky does. It looks close enough to touch, and its twin summit is genuinely striking — the reason it is called Machapuchare…
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What this means for you You cannot climb Machapuchare — nobody can, permit or no permit — but you can walk into its lap. The Annapurna Base Camp trek takes you directly into the Annapurna Sanctuary, the high glacial bowl Machapuchare guards, with the mountain…
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