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Everest Is Only Part of the Story: Inside the World's Highest National Park

Sagarmatha National Park stretches from 2,845 metres to Everest's 8,848-metre summit — and after a roughly 40-year absence, snow leopards are being…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 20, 2026

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Ask most people what's inside Sagarmatha National Park and they'll say one thing: Mount Everest. They're not wrong — the world's highest mountain sits inside its boundary. But Everest is only the top 8,848 metres of a park that starts far below it, and that's…

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What this means for trekkers

What this means for you Every trekker walking to Everest Base Camp , Gokyo Ri or the Everest View trail is inside this park from the moment they clear the entrance gate near Monjo — not just on the final approach to Base Camp. Watch for musk deer in the…

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