Mardi Himal is a trekking peak standing at 5,587 metres (18,330 ft) in the Annapurna region of Nepal.
Practical guides to trekking in Nepal — permits, costs, seasons, altitude and packing — written by the guides who walk these trails.
Four to five hours from Kathmandu: up the Khumbu valley, a landing near Kala Patthar at 5,545 m with Everest in front of you, and breakfast at the Everest View Hotel on the way down. How it works and who it suits.
Helicopters have become the fastest way to see the Himalaya and a significant industry in Nepal. Every tour route we run, what each one gives you, the altitude and safety considerations, and the honest case for and against.
A UNESCO site in the Terai where Siddhartha Gautama was born in 623 BCE, with an Ashokan pillar, the marker stone, an international monastic zone, and the ruined Shakya capital at Tilaurakot nearby.
A temple at 3,760 m sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists, with 108 water spouts and a natural gas flame burning over a spring. What the pilgrimage involves, the rituals, and how to get there by road, air or on foot.
Nepal has more public holidays than almost any country on earth. The festivals worth planning a trip around, month by month, with notes on what closes, what gets busy, and which ones you can actually witness on a trek.
Twenty minutes from Thamel and routinely skipped — Patan has the best Durbar Square, the best museum in Nepal, and a working metalworking quarter that has supplied Himalayan Buddhism for a thousand years.
A walled medieval Newar city half an hour from Kathmandu, where the whole street plan survives rather than just the monuments. The four squares, the pottery quarter, juju dhau, and why it deserves longer than a morning.
Seven monument zones in one valley — three royal squares, two Buddhist stupas, a Hindu cremation temple and the oldest shrine in Nepal. What each one is, how long it needs, and how to see them without exhaustion.
8,163 m in Gorkha, climbed in autumn, and the peak most climbers use as their step from 7,000 m to Everest. The route, the season, the avalanche question, and what it demands of you.
Fifty days, the Khumbu Icefall, the Western Cwm, the Lhotse Face and the South Col — how a commercial Everest expedition actually works, what it costs, what the new experience rule means, and the questions to ask an operator.
Eight of the world's fourteen 8,000 m peaks are in Nepal. What each one is, how hard it is, what it costs to climb, its history and its reputation — plus how to see them without climbing anything.
6,812 m of steep granite and ice on the south-west ridge — technically the hardest thing most Himalayan climbers ever do, and a serious step above any trekking peak. What it demands, the route camp by camp, and how to prepare.