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 If something on the site is out of date or you need advice on a specific itinerary, get in touch — the team replies within 24 hours.
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The Manaslu Circuit with a 6,000 m summit in the middle of it. A straightforward PD snow climb above the highest permanent village in the Nubri, with ten days of walking doing all the acclimatisation work before you start.
The highest mountain in the Langtang Himal and one of the hardest 7,000 m peaks in Nepal — 3,300 m of ice and hanging glacier straight above Kyanjin Gompa, with serac exposure that is timed rather than avoided. TD-, and described accurately.
The sharp triple-summited peak closing the southern side of the Langtang valley, visible from the ridges above Kathmandu and attempted a handful of times since 1981. A grade D route with no trodden line and nobody else on the mountain.
One of the least-attempted permitted peaks in Nepal, on the southern rim of the Kanchenjunga massif. Seven days of walking over ridge after ridge to reach it, and a summit looking straight into a 3,000 m south wall.
A traverse rather than an out-and-back — in through the Rolwaling gorge, up the peak, then over the Tashi Lapcha into the Khumbu. One of the best climbing traverses in Nepal, on a trail carrying a fraction of the Everest region's traffic.
The range you can see from the rim of the Kathmandu valley on a clear winter morning, and almost nobody goes there. A clean AD- snow route above the sacred lakes at Panch Pokhari, on a mountain where the line has to be found again each time.
A real AD climb with the shortest approach in Nepal — base camp five days after landing in Kathmandu, on a mountain that sees a handful of parties a decade. At the head of the Langtang valley where the glaciers turn toward Tibet.
One of the first peaks the NMA opened and still one of the least climbed — a classic PD+ snow and ice ridge in the Ganesh Himal, reached through Tamang villages and abandoned mining country where there are no lodges at all.
A trekking peak with a genuine mountaineering summit day, directly opposite Kyanjin Gompa. Glacier approach, a slope steepening to 45 degrees, a fixed line on the headwall — and no flight to get there. From USD 2,190.
The fluted wall over Namche that almost everyone decides to photograph rather than climb. Graded TD-, first ascended in 1964, and climbed successfully in fewer than one departure in three. The hardest route in our catalogue below the 8,000 m peaks.
The mountain that stops people on the trail to Everest Base Camp — a 1,500 m north face above Chola Tsho and a grade D south-west ridge first climbed by Clevenger, Rowell, Roskelley and O'Connor in 1982. Alpine experience at AD+ and above required.
Officially a trekking peak, and widely regarded as the hardest on the NMA list — grade D, two camps above base, fixed rope on almost everything above 5,300 m, and seasons in which nobody reaches the top. Experienced alpinists only.