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The Kali Gandaki Gorge drops roughly 5,571 metres between two 8,000-metre giants — deeper than the Grand Canyon three times over — and a 228-metre…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 19, 2026
Between two of the fourteen highest mountains on Earth runs a canyon so deep that geologists still argue over exactly how deep it goes. The Kali Gandaki Gorge, squeezed between Dhaulagiri (8,167m) and Annapurna I (8,091m) in central Nepal, plunges an…
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The Kushma Bungee opened on a 520-metre suspension bridge over the Kali Gandaki, about 62km from Pokhara on the Beni–Baglung road. Jumpers get roughly a four-second free fall before the cord catches, dropping toward the river the valley itself took tens of…
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What this means for you You don't need three weeks and a high-altitude itinerary to stand over one of the deepest gorges on Earth — the Kushma Bungee is a day trip from Pokhara. But the same gorge is also the trade route the classic Annapurna Circuit follows…
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