Founder & Trek Leader, Green Compass Treks
Bishow has been organising treks, peak climbs, and tours across Nepal for over a decade, from the teahouse trails of Annapurna and Everest to the restricted valleys of Mustang, Manaslu, and Dolpo. He writes the guides on this site from the trail itself — the permit desks, the lodge dining rooms, the pass crossings, and the questions guests actually ask before they book.
Every article here is written to answer a real planning question: when to go, what it costs, how hard it is, and which route fits the time you have. If something on the site is out of date or you need advice on a specific itinerary, get in touch — the team replies within 24 hours.
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Diamox is the most discussed tablet on any Nepal trek, and the most misunderstood. What it does, who benefits, the commonly prescribed dose and timing, the side effects you will notice, who should not take it, and the myths worth dropping.
Breathing exercises will not acclimatise you, whatever the internet says. What they will do is set your pace, steady your nerves and help you sleep. Five techniques worth learning before a Nepal trek, the ones to avoid at altitude, and a four-week plan to practise at home.
Most doctors have never been above 3,000 m. How to brief yours properly before a Nepal trek: who needs a check-up, what to tell them, the questions to ask, the tests worth considering, and the dental and foot checks nobody mentions.
Nobody warns you that finishing a trek can feel flat. What happens to the mind in the days after you come down, a 72-hour recovery plan, four practices that help, and how to keep what the mountains gave you once you are home.
Nepal has no compulsory vaccines for most travellers, but several are strongly recommended — and rabies deserves more thought than trekkers give it. Which vaccines, how many weeks ahead, and what malaria, dengue and Japanese encephalitis mean for a trekking trip.
You train your legs for twelve weeks and your mind for none. A simple 14-day meditation plan to do before a Nepal trek — four techniques explained step by step, what to do on arrival in Kathmandu, and the five-minute routine for the morning you start walking.
What to take, when to start it, and what to do afterwards. A complete timeline of medication for a Nepal trek — vaccines, altitude tablets, the medical kit, what to avoid in thin air, and the checks worth making once you are back down.
A trek is two weeks of walking, thin air and very little distraction — which makes it one of the best settings there is for meditation. Here is how to use the days before and after your trek, what meditation can and cannot do at altitude, and how we build it into an itinerary.
The highest peak of the Kanjiroba Himal, with successful ascents since 1970 countable on one hand. The approach runs past Phoksundo Lake, the deepest in Nepal — and beyond it there is nothing at all.
The highest mountain in far-western Nepal and the most remote 7,000 m peak in the country — a few kilometres from both the Indian and Tibetan borders, in a corner with no trekking industry and effectively no visitors. Grade D, and your team fixes every metre.
The most straightforward 7,000 m climb in Nepal, on an approach J. O. M. Roberts called the finest walk he knew. A PD+ route with no technical crux, a 65 to 75 percent success rate, and a base camp six days from the nearest airstrip.
One of the least-climbed permitted peaks in Nepal, above the walled Tibetan village of Nar — and best known for the 2005 avalanche that killed eighteen people at its base camp. We include it, and we discuss that openly.