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Mount Kailash: The Sacred Peak No One Has Ever Climbed, and Why Pilgrims Keep Getting Stranded in Nepal on the Way

Four religions call it the center of the universe. In 2026, Indian pilgrims travelling the Nepal route got stuck in Kathmandu without the right…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 8, 2026

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Nobody has ever stood on the summit of Mount Kailash. Not because no one is strong enough — mountaineers who have soloed Everest without bottled oxygen have called it an easy scramble by comparison — but because four of the world's religions quietly agreed…

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Four religions, one mountain

In Hindu belief, Kailash is the seat of Shiva and his consort Parvati. Tibetan Buddhists identify it with Mount Meru, the axis at the centre of the cosmos. Jain scripture holds that Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara, achieved spiritual liberation on its…

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What this means for anyone travelling the Nepal route

What this means for trekkers Kailash sits inside Chinese-administered Tibet, so a Nepal-route pilgrimage needs two separate sets of paperwork: Nepal entry documents, and a Chinese group visa plus a Tibet Autonomous Region permit arranged in advance through a…

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