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At 22,943 feet, Machapuchare towers over the Annapurna Sanctuary, and by Nepal's own law, no one has legally set foot on its true summit since a…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 30, 2026
Stand on the shore of Pokhara's Phewa Lake at sunrise and one mountain steals every photograph: a narrow, double-pronged spike of rock and ice that locals call Machapuchare, the Fishtail. It is not the tallest peak in the Annapurna massif, not by a long way…
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What this means for you You will never need a climbing permit for Machapuchare because none is issued, but you don't need one to get closer to it than almost any other 6,993 m peak on earth allows. The mountain forms the entire eastern skyline of the…
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