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Mountain Hawk Trekking Discover the real spirit of the Himalayas with Mountain Hawk Trekking — your trusted local adventure company in Nepal.

We organize authentic trekking, peak climbing, and cultural tours led by experienced guides who know every trail by heart. Welcome to Mountain Hawk Trekking, Nepal’s leading independent provider of adventure holidays. We offer trekking, mountain climbing, and general tour packages in Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet. We are committed to personalized service that caterers to your individual needs. Safety in the Himalaya is our highest concern and priority. We provide well-designed itineraries, and local trekking and tour guides who are intimately familiar with the area, including the folklore and local knowledge about the region you are exploring with your guide. We encourage responsible trekking in Nepal, and will ensure that your holiday is eco-friendly and supports the local community.

18/09/2026

Nepal is famous for the view at the top.

But every trail is made of what you walk past. The brass prayer wheels that have been spinning since before you were born. The carved stone guardians kneeling at temple doors. Gilded wood struts holding up pagoda roofs, each one shaped by hand. Sacred water falling through one hundred and eight spouts. Wild rhododendron, Nepal's national flower, blooming in walls of crimson whether anyone walks past or not. And glacial ice turning to turquoise meltwater at the edge of the moraine.

These are the textures of Nepal. Not the summit photograph, not the flag at the top. The surfaces you touch, step on, walk through, listen to. The things that are there every day, long after the trekkers leave.

Everyone photographs the summit.
Nobody photographs this.

Look closer.

Plan your trek with Mountain Hawk Trek:

Everest Base Camp Trek (15 days):
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek

Annapurna Circuit Trek (17 days):
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region/annapurna-circuit-trek

Ghorepani P**n Hill Trek (8 days):
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region/ghorepani-poon-hill-trek

All treks and expeditions:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal

Best time to trek in Nepal:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time

17/09/2026

Above five thousand metres, the Khumbu stops pretending to be a trail. The trees ended two days ago. The soil ended yesterday. What you walk on now is glacial moraine, loose stone that shifts under your boots and stretches to the horizon in every direction. The mountains do not shrink at this altitude. They multiply.

At 5,200 metres the Khumbu Glacier starts. Not the clean white ice you picture. A chaos of blue-grey seracs, meltwater lakes trapped between walls of ice with nowhere to drain, and a terrain that looks like it belongs on another planet. The trail does not end because it was never built. You follow cairns, bootprints, and the instinct of whoever walked here before you.

Everest Base Camp sits at 5,364 metres, on the glacier itself. Expedition tents the colour of egg yolks dot the moraine. The Khumbu Icefall towers behind them, a frozen cascade the size of a city block that moves about a metre a day. There is no welcome sign worth the name, no gift shop, no viewing platform. Just a painted rock, a few prayer flags, and a silence that makes your ears ring.

No road built this. No shortcut exists. Fifteen days of walking from Lukla's tiny airstrip, through rhododendron forest, past suspension bridges that bottleneck at mid-morning, over passes where the prayer flags are the only colour for miles. Your body adapts in real time. Your appetite drops, your sleep fragments, and the headache at Dingboche becomes normal by Lobuche. Then you arrive, and the only thought is that it was worth every step.

Fifteen days. 5,364 metres. Come see the far edge.

mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek

mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek

16/09/2026

On the walk in to Namche there is a table with the entire Everest region on it. Carved and painted. Sagarmatha National Park covers 1,148 square kilometres of the Khumbu, and all of it is on that table: every valley and glacier, and three of the world's fourteen peaks above 8,000 metres.

Our GoPro filmed the model at 7:30 one morning in April 2023. The same camera had filmed the planes at Lukla two days before, and it filmed the gate of Namche four hours later. So this reel puts them side by side. The plaster valley, then the real one with a Twin Otter taxiing across it. The plaster bowl, then the real town sitting in it. Camera clock on every shot.

Here is the honest part. The footage stops at Namche. The map keeps going, up the ice to the far edge at 5,364 metres, and the only way to see the rest is to walk it. A minute to cross the table. Fifteen days to cross the real one.

Everest Base Camp, 15 days, USD 1,675. Lukla flights, both permits, guide and porter included.

The trek: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek
When to go: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek

11/09/2026

His commute.

The announcement in the first clip is real. Seatbelts fastened, phones to flight mode, and the crew wishes everyone a safe and pleasant journey. Prem has heard it more times than he can count. Look at his face.

Then the commute itself, timestamped by the camera's own clock. The flight at 08:21. The runway at 08:34. The bridge two days later at 09:11. Day four, past noon, still walking. His office sits at 5,364 metres and no road goes there.

The same commute is the best two weeks you will ever spend on foot.

Everest Base Camp, 15 days, $1,675:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek

When to go:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek

10/09/2026

The first days of the Everest Base Camp trek, in April.

Most people picture this trek as ice from the first step. The camera says otherwise.

Between Lukla and Namche the trail runs through flowering forest: rhododendron in deep crimson and magenta, wild cherry going pale over the stone lodges, whole valleys pink and red the way they are every late March and April.

The bloom starts low in late March, in the forests between Phakding and Tengboche, then climbs the hillsides through April. The deepest reds sit below 3,500m. Above Tengboche the rhododendron thins to shrubs, then low scrub, then open hillside, and the trail keeps climbing to the moraine at 5,364m. The bloom peaks below Tengboche. The trek walks straight through it.

The line in the left margin of the reel is a true elevation scale. The crimson band is
where the bloom lives, and it stops at 3,500m. Everything above it stays dashed until the mountain answers.

The snow never leaves the skyline. On the bloom day itself a white ridge stands above the forest, a painted board by a prayer wheel reads WAY TO NAMCHE with an arrow, and mule trains with red head tassels haul expedition kit up the stone steps past all of it. The reel ends on the massif above Khumjung in evening light, because that is where the walking goes next.

April is the flagship spring month on this route and the second-busiest of the year.
Teahouses and Lukla flights need booking well ahead.

Footage: GoPro, Khumbu, 7 to 10 April 2023. Four consecutive days on the approach from Lukla to Namche, with the camera clock running on Nepal time.

What April gives this trek, week by week:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek-in-april

Everest Base Camp, 15 days, $1,675:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek


09/09/2026

The Namche Bazaar acclimatization day.

Our itinerary calls it a rest day. It also calls it mandatory, not optional.

Here is what the day is. The standard morning hike climbs to the Everest View Hotel at 3,880m, about ninety minutes above Namche, and then you come straight back down to sleep at 3,440m. Climb high, sleep low. Acclimatization stops like this one are medically critical for reducing the risk of altitude sickness above 3,500m, and on this route everything past Namche is over that line.

Two to four hours of climbing above the village and back down to sleep. Shorter than a walking day. Not a day off.

Your guide takes pulse oximeter readings on both acclimatization days, here and again at Dingboche, before anyone goes higher.

If the climb is not in you that morning, the day still works. Namche has the Sherpa Culture Museum, the Saturday market, and the Sagarmatha National Park visitor centre. Any of them keeps you at 3,440m doing nothing strenuous, which is the other honest way to spend an acclimatization day.

Rest days are mandatory, not optional.

The 15 day plan carries two of them, at Namche and at Dingboche, plus a buffer day. They exist because of the four things that send people home from this trek: altitude sickness that needs descent, a chest infection picked up in a crowded dining room, a Lukla delay that ate the days they had left, and an itinerary too short to acclimatize on.

Footage: GoPro, Khumbu, 10 April 2023. The times stamped on screen are the camera's own clock, running on Nepal time. The first is 07:37 and the last is 17:22. That is the shape of a rest day.

How altitude works on this route, and what we do about it:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/about/altitude-sickness-guide

Everest Base Camp, 15 days, $1,675:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek


04/09/2026

Two mornings in March, one storm apart.

The first was filmed at 6:15 AM on March 22, from above the cloud line. A clear dawn, which March delivers more often than people expect.

That afternoon a spring storm moved through the valley. By the next morning it was gone. The second clip is 7:54 AM on March 23: fresh snow on the bridge and full sun overhead. The group crossed and kept walking. Nobody lost a day.

That is the pattern our own weather notes describe. Snowfall in March arrives as brief spring storms, and they usually clear overnight. The last week of the month already walks like spring, while the April crowds are still at home.

The full March picture, morning by morning:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek-in-march

The trek itself, 15 days:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek

03/09/2026

On the morning of August 26, an ice and rock avalanche came off Langtang Lirung and dammed a river valley across the border in Tibet. When the dam burst, the surge came down the Bhotekoshi and into the Trishuli. It hit Rasuwa first, then Nuwakot, and kept going all the way to Chitwan.

As of September 3, at least 1,252 people are confirmed dead and 4,216 are still unaccounted for. The search has not stopped. Around 21,000 army, police and APF personnel are working the river, and more than 11,900 people have been pulled to safety.

The Trishuli is the river every one of our groups has driven beside on the way west. We stand with the families along it.

Footage: Nepal Red Cross and Nepal Armed Police Force via Euronews, Reuters via The Indian Express, Nepal PM's Office via DW News, ANI, AFP, APT, Rugged Trails Nepal, Happy Trails.

02/09/2026

The highest point of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra is not a viewpoint. It is Dolma La, a pass at 5,630 meters, and you cross it on the second day of the kora.

This is our own footage from a September crossing. Most of it plays at half speed, and the film says so on screen. We slowed it down so you can see what the top of the pass looks like: a whole slope carpeted in prayer flags, with loaded yaks picking their way across it. Nobody walks fast at 5,630 meters anyway.

Some numbers worth knowing before you commit. The kora is 52 kilometers over three days on foot around Mount Kailash. Pass day starts before dawn and runs 8 to 10 hours. A pony can carry you up to the top of Dolma La, but not down the far side. The descent is done on foot, by everyone, so plan for the steepest part of the kora on your own legs.

Lake Mansarovar sits at 4,590 meters. The puja and holy dip there come before the kora begins, on the drive west, while the body is still getting used to the altitude.

One note on timing. In the Tibetan calendar 2026 is a Fire Horse year, the first since 1966, and tradition holds that a single kora completed in a Horse year carries the merit of thirteen. The Saga Dawa festival falls on May 31, 2026.

We run this trip two ways from Kathmandu:

Overland via Kerung, 10 days:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/kailash-mansarovar-yatra

Via Lhasa by air, 15 days, with two acclimatization days in the capital:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/kailash-mansarovar-tour-via-lhasa

The full cost breakdown, including the pony and porter rates in CNY as you will pay them at Darchen:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/blog/kailash-mansarovar-yatra-cost

28/08/2026

People ask us one question about the Annapurna Circuit more than any other: is it dangerous?

Here is the honest answer.

The trail itself is not the danger. It is a footpath, most days on good trail, and there is no technical climbing anywhere on the route. No ropes, no crampons in normal autumn conditions. The grade is Strenuous because pass day is long: 8 to 10 hours, a 4 AM start, almost 1,000 meters up and 1,600 down.

The danger has a different shape. The event everyone asks about is October 2014, when an out-of-season blizzard from Cyclone Hudhud killed 43 people around Thorong La in two days. It remains Nepal's worst trekking disaster, and it changed the industry: weather forecasting is now taken seriously, and responsible operators empower guides to cancel a crossing.

That is how we run it. Counter-clockwise, because that takes Thorong La from the gradual eastern side, which is the safe direction. Fixed weather calls the evening before. No summit-fever schedules. We have turned groups around at Thorong Phedi and walked them back down the Marsyangdi, and the trekkers who booked knowing that was possible had a good trek anyway.

The ones who get into trouble up there are usually the ones who rushed. So we never rush.

The full 16-day itinerary:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region/annapurna-circuit-trek

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