Himalayan Adventure Labs

Name: Himalayan Adventure Labs
Address: Bhaisepati, Kathmandu, 44700, NP
Telephone: (206) 618-8449

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High altitude fast packs, treks and climbs in the Himalayas. Come join us!

High altitude fast packs in the Himalayas for long distance trail runners and endurance athletes.

22/10/2026

Renjo La, in snow. Alex and Abby, a father-and-daughter duo, with Rishi Chudal leading.

Our Everest Fastpack team is back in civilisation. More pictures and a trip report to follow.

06/10/2026

In 1955, three Scottish women walked into the Jugal Himal.

Before they left Kathmandu, the papers wanted to know what lipstick they would wear. Betty Stark's answer was that they were covered in glacier cream, an early sunscreen, and it still didn't stop the sunburn.

What the reporters didn't ask about was the idea that had started it all. Monica Jackson had climbed above 21,000 feet and found nothing there that a woman couldn't do. The Sherpas she had worked with didn't think so either. Her conclusion was that for experienced mountaineers, Himalayan climbing held nothing mysterious either s*x couldn't handle.

So Monica, Betty and Evelyn Camrass went to find a range nobody had mapped. They appointed no leader. They divided the work instead, and Betty noted drily that a tent leaves little room for disagreement anyway.

They summited a previously unclimbed peak and named it after their head Sherpa, Mingma Gyalgen.

In April 2027, we're walking part of their route. Eighteen days, fourteen of them under canvas, into one of the least visited corners of Langtang National Park. Eight places.

📸 Phurbi Chyachu, Jugal Himal (public domain). Remaining photos by Jeevan Lama.

www.himalayanadventurelabs.com/treks/jugal-himal-camping-trek/ link in bio for Instagram.

25/09/2026

Liz and Ed are setting off on the Great Himalaya Trail - the high route.

We caught up with them this morning for a briefing and orientation - Kathmandu doing its September thing, rain and all - before they head out. HAL will be backstopping the full crossing, and joining them with guides on select sections along the way.

Follow along as they make their way across. Great Himalaya Trail

📍 Kathmandu

21/09/2026

Slopes of Naar.

We're eyeing this for a 2027 HAL trip.

31/08/2026

What has happened in the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli valleys is devastating, and the scale of it is still unfolding.

Syabrubesi, one of the trailheads for Langtang valley, is almost entirely gone. Many of you have walked through it.

All HAL team members are safe. Our local partners in Syabrubesi are not so fortunate. They have lost family members and homes.

Right now the priority is rescue and relief. If you want to help, the Government of Nepal's Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund is accepting contributions, including from overseas: https://pmdrf.nchl.com.np — link also in bio.

Our thoughts are with everyone who has lost someone.

📍 Map: the affected river corridor shown in orange.

17/08/2026

Still time to join the Everest Three Passes crew this October. Three passes above 5,000m, thirteen days on trail.

Langtang Lollipop is confirmed for May 2027, and we're adding more to the Great Himalayan Series calendar over the coming weeks.

For more information: https://www.himalayanadventurelabs.com/great-himalayan-series/

16/08/2026

Langtang Lollipop (May 16–30, 2027) is now on the Great Himalayan Series calendar. Next up: we're scouting Jugal Himal.

Jugal sits just east of Langtang, close enough to see from Kathmandu on a clear day, yet almost nobody goes there. A mix of teahouse and camping, likely with a support crew.

More details soon. Follow along as we add more destinations to the GHS 2026–2028 calendar.

01/08/2026

Brian Fagin crossed Renjo La in December 2016 and said that Ama Dablam might be the best-looking mountain in the Himalaya. We do not disagree. The views in the Everest region are otherworldly.

We cross Renjo La on our Everest Three Passes Fastpack in October, along with Cho La and Kongma La, three passes above 5,000m in 13 days, including two acclimatisation days.

Come join us! October 2–18, 2026. Link in bio.

📷 All photos by Brian Fagin. Link to his blogpost https://www.himalayanadventurelabs.com/2017/02/24/winter-trek-everest-base-camp/

23/07/2026

We promised you the 2027 calendar by the end of June. Better late than never.

One of the trips we are bringing back from the vault in 2027 is the Langtang Lollipop. Why? Because it starts at the doorstep of your hotel in Kathmandu, heads north through the Gosaikund range into the Langtang, part of the central Nepali Himalayas, and ends right back where you started.

The route travels through the western section of Langtang National Park, crossing G***a La, a high pass that sees very few trekkers because there are no tea houses on this side. Our 2023 group had to turn back within a couple of hundred metres of the pass due to icy conditions.

Prior high-altitude experience required. Comfortable scrambling on semi-technical terrain is essential.

More trips from the 2027 calendar are coming soon.

📷 First: Gosaikund; kund (meaning lake), 2023. Second: eastern section connecting Tarkeghyang with G***a La, 2017.

18/06/2026

HAL just ran a different kind of trip in the Limi Valley, Humla, towards the end of May, and we are going back again this summer. More details, later :)

At HAL we do not claim to be experts at everything. What we know is where to look, how to ask the right questions, and how to help you travel at high altitude safely.

Great Himalayan Series 2027 & 2028 edition calendar dropping this June. Tune in.

📷 Team आत्मन् (Ātman), the innermost essence of each individual - making their way to Til, Limi valley, Humla. Photo by Sudeep Kandel, 2022.

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Bhaisepati
Kathmandu
44700

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(206) 618-8449

Website

http://www.himalayanadventurelabs.com/

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