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Nepal's PM Balen Shah is pointing the world toward the far west: Api Himal Base Camp, a remote 7,132m giant in Darchula that almost no foreign…
By Laxman Rawal · Jun 20, 2026
Nepal's far west is the part of the country the world forgot — and Nepal's Prime Minister, Balen Shah, just reminded everyone it exists. His film of Api Himal and its base camp in Darchula district — snow-draped giants above impossibly green alpine meadows —…
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Api Himal sits in the remote north-west corner of Nepal, in Darchula district — not to be confused with the Indian town across the border. (Api Base Camp is firmly in Nepal.) The trek climbs through subtropical forest and traditional far-western villages into…
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The PM's spotlight on the far west is about more than a pretty view — it is a push to spread tourism beyond Everest and Annapurna into regions that need it. For international adventurers, that is a rare invitation: to be among the first foreign trekkers on a…
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