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Machapuchare Is the Nepal Mountain Nobody Has Ever Been Allowed to Summit (2026)

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

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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 trekkers

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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