Autumn trekking in Nepal runs from late September through November and is the most popular trekking season of the year. The monsoon ends, the dust and haze wash out of the sky, and the Himalayas stay sharp and visible for weeks at a stretch. Daytime temperatures in the mid-hills sit between 15°C and 20°C, trails are dry, and mountain flights…
Choosing between Everest Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp is the most common decision first-time Nepal trekkers face. Here is the short answer most agencies will not give you: if you have less than 12 days, limited high-altitude experience, or a tight budget, ABC is the better trek. If Everest itself is the point, and you have the time and…
A realistic Everest Base Camp trek costs $1,200 to $1,500 if you go lean, $1,800 to $2,500 for a standard guided package, and $3,500 to $5,500+ if you want lodge upgrades and a helicopter return. Those are all-in figures in US dollars, including flights, permits, food, and the extras agencies rarely mention. This guide breaks down where every dollar goes.…
No one survived Thursday’s avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Nepal has lost six climbers, among them Nims Purja, the man who redefined high-altitude mountaineering, in the country’s darkest day on the world’s highest peaks. All 10 climbers caught in Thursday’s avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak have died, including renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, ending two days of searching that…
Last updated: July 31, 2026, 12:30 pm NPT This is a post will be updated as verified information becomes available. Update, July 31 afternoon: Helicopters carrying Pakistani high-altitude climbers Sirbaz Khan and Sherzad Karim have departed for Broad Peak with rescue equipment and supplemental oxygen. Six climbers remain missing after four bodies were recovered. GPS trackers, including Purja’s, have shown…
Somewhere above the Marsyangdi River, at 3,500 metres where the air is thin and the peaks feel close enough to touch, a 14-room lodge has just put Nepal on the world stage in a way trekking alone never could. Mountain Lodges of Nepal’s Manang Lodge has been named to TIME Magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places 2026” list and it’s the only…
Is the Annapurna Circuit still worth doing now that jeep roads run through parts of it? Short answer: yes — and the way you get the version of the trek that still feels like the legendary Annapurna Circuit is by knowing which trail to take. Roads have crept into the Marshyangdi valley over the past two decades, and a fair…
Every trekker on the Annapurna Circuit photographs Gangapurna without knowing its name. It’s the glacier-draped wall towering directly behind Manang village, the one reflected in Gangapurna Lake that every Instagram feed from the region features. Almost nobody realizes it’s a serious, rarely climbed 7,000m peak with one of the more sobering climbing histories in the Annapurna Himal and as of…
Most people arrive in Manang by accident of itinerary it’s the two-night acclimatization stop before Thorong La Pass, a box to tick on the Annapurna Circuit. Almost nobody arrives having actually decided to go to Manang. That’s a shame, because Manang is one of the only places in Nepal where you can stand in a stone village at 3,500 meters,…
Kathmandu doesn’t have skyscrapers. It doesn’t need them. What it has is something better: rooftop after rooftop stacked above narrow, chaotic streets, each one offering a different slice of the valley. Temple spires. Prayer flags. A wall of hills turning pink at sunset. Sit up there with a plate of momos and a cold Gorkha beer, and the honking traffic…