Nepal

Home to the world's highest peaks and some of its highest-consequence permits — this is where "extreme" stops being a marketing word and starts being an altitude chart.

3 Trekking & Wilderness lines

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Restricted-Area Trekking · Manaslu, Gandaki

Manaslu Circuit, Larkya La crossing

EXPERTRisk: HIGHUSD Special permit ~70–100…

A remote circuit around the world's eighth-highest peak, crossing the 5,106m Larkya La pass — requires a special restricted-area permit and mandatory registered guide, with far fewer trekkers per day than Everest or Annapurna and correspondingly less margin if something goes wrong.

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High-Altitude Trekking · Annapurna, Gandaki

Thorong La high pass crossing, Annapurna Circuit

ADVANCEDRisk: HIGHUSD Permits (ACAP + TIMS) ~…

A 5,416m pass crossing on the classic Annapurna Circuit — no technical climbing, but a pre-dawn start in serious cold and the very real risk of altitude sickness, which has killed trekkers on this exact pass in bad-weather years when routes weren't properly acclimatised or turned back in time.

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Restricted-Area Trekking · Mustang, Gandaki

Upper Mustang restricted trek

ADVANCEDRisk: HIGHUSD Restricted-area permit…

A former Tibetan kingdom sealed to outsiders until 1992, still gated by a special restricted-area permit and a mandatory licensed guide — high desert canyons, cave monasteries and Tibetan Buddhist villages at altitude, with a much lower foreign footprint than the main trekking circuits.

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