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.
A proper alpine line above the Cho La that almost nobody climbs — crevassed glacier, 45 to 55 degree ice, and a corniced ridge with the Cho La glacier on one side and the Ngozumpa on the other. Opened in 2002, and still a handful of parties a year.
A compact rocky peak above Machhermo with a short, sharp mixed ridge and a genuine rock step near the top — the peak we recommend most often for the step up into technical ground, with the Gokyo valley as the approach.
The wall everyone in Namche looks at and almost nobody climbs. Not the famous Lowe–Breashears north face, but the south-west ridge — a serious, attainable AD+ with a summit that looks straight down onto Namche 2,500 m below.
The climb to book when you have done Island Peak and found it too crowded and too easy. A genuine AD+ mixed route up a hanging valley with no lodges and no trekking traffic, staffed one Sherpa per climber.
The most approachable of the Khumbu's climbing peaks and the honest answer for anyone who wants a real summit without a night on a glacier. A rock scramble with a short fixed section — and a view arguably better than Island Peak's.
A 7,134 m royalty peak above one of the highest large lakes in the world, climbed rarely enough that a season may pass with no ascent. A sustained AD+ with a summit ridge above 6,800 m that takes everything coming off the Tibetan plateau.
The summit at the northern end of the Dhaulagiri massif, attempted so rarely that most seasons pass without an ascent. An AD+ route behind a 5,240 m pass, with a base camp in a wind-scoured basin below the eighth-highest mountain on earth.
Fluted Peak — one of the hardest on the NMA list, graded D, with sustained 50 to 60 degree ice where snow quality decides everything and a corniced summit ridge. Climbed from inside the Annapurna Sanctuary. We sell it to experienced alpinists only.
One of the best summit views in Nepal for a peak of its grade — Dhaulagiri I across Hidden Valley at close range, the Annapurnas east, and Mustang running north. A PD snow climb reached by a flight into the deepest gorge on earth.
A clean pyramid of snow above the Marsyangdi that looks simple from the trail and is not — the upper 300 m run at 45 to 50 degrees and narrow to an exposed ridge. Base camp on day two of walking, then the Thorong La to finish.
The best first 6,000 m peak on the Annapurna side of Nepal — graded PD, sixteen days, and the highest success rate of any peak we run in the region, with the same summit view the harder Chulus pay more for.
The highest and hardest of the three Chulu summits — 6,584 m by the north-east ridge, with sustained 45 to 50 degree snow and ice and a corniced crest near the top. Graded AD-, and a real step up from a first Himalayan peak.