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At 3,762 metres in Nepal's Mustang district, natural gas has kept a flame alight beside — and by tradition within — a spring for so long that Hindus…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 28, 2026
No one tends this fire. No one has to. At 3,762 metres in the high desert of Nepal's Mustang district, natural gas seeps up through cracks in the bedrock beside a mountain spring and keeps a flame burning next to running water — fire and water sitting side by…
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What this means for you Muktinath is reachable two ways: as a full pilgrimage-and-mountain circuit by crossing Thorong La from Manang, or as a short, high-altitude add-on flown or driven in from Jomsom — no glacier crossing required. Our Jomsom Muktinath Trek…
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