Nepal made 97 mountains free to climb. Two seasons remain.
Api Himal rises 7,132 metres above the far-western corner of Nepal. On clear mornings, people see it from across the Indian border. Almost nobody climbs it. In a country that sells more than a thousand climbing permits a year, the far west is a rounding error. In the spring season before the government intervened, Nepal issued 1,168 climbing permits. More…