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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 i

n 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.

19/08/2026

Everyone who does the Annapurna Circuit talks about Thorong La. The pass, the 5,416 metres, the day you train for. Almost nobody talks about where you end up on the far side of it.

Muktinath. 3,800 metres, Mustang. A temple to Vishnu that Hindus count among the 108 Divya Desams, the holiest Vishnu sites anywhere, standing in country that is Buddhist to the bone. Buddhists call the same ground Chumig Gyatsa, the Hundred Springs, and hold that Guru Rinpoche meditated here. The Namgyal Gompa next door keeps its own prayer schedule beside the main shrine. Nobody asks anybody to leave.

Below the temple sits Ranipauwa, the village where you sleep. Across the valley, the whole line of snow. Pilgrims who came for liberation and trekkers who came for the pass end up at the same rail, looking at the same thing.

You can walk in over Thorong La, or fly to Jomsom and drive the last 21 km up. Either way you arrive.

Six days, from $495:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/nepal-tour-packages/tours-in-nepal/muktinath-temple-tour

The Circuit, if you want the pass first:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region/annapurna

14/08/2026

How fit do you have to be to walk to Everest Base Camp?

It is the most asked question we get, and almost every answer out there is a vibe. "Moderate fitness." "Decent cardio." Nobody puts a number on it. So this reel does the arithmetic in public.

Start with the scary version. Base Camp sits at 5,364 metres, and the trail from Lukla and back climbs about 6,000 metres in total, because the route dips and rises and every re-climb counts, including both acclimatisation hikes. Six thousand metres of ascent. That number is why people picture mountaineering.

Now translate it into something you have already climbed. A floor of a building is about three metres. One floor, one flight of stairs. So the whole trek is roughly 2,000 floors.

Spread those over the 15-day itinerary, which walks on 11 of its days, and you get about 180 floors a day. Spread 180 floors over six walking hours and you get 30 an hour. Sixty minutes in an hour, thirty flights.

One flight of stairs. Every two minutes.

That is the whole secret. Not a sprint, not a climb. One flight, then the best views on Earth until the next one.

Two honest footnotes. First, the unhurried pace is not generosity, it is the acclimatisation plan: the schedule is slow because your body needs the nights, and the groups that hurry are the groups that turn around. Second, stairs at sea level and stairs at 5,000 metres are not the same stairs. The air up there holds about half the oxygen, which is exactly why the itinerary hands you only one flight every two minutes instead of asking for more.

If you can climb a flight of stairs, wait two minutes, and do it again, the trail is not what stands between you and Base Camp. The calendar is.

The 15-day Everest Base Camp trek: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek

The full guide to the trail: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/blog/everest-base-camp-trek-complete-guide

13/08/2026

Everest Base Camp is a rock with paint on it.

That is not a complaint. It is the thing nobody tells you before you go.

The name sits on a boulder in a rubble field at 5,364 m. People have written their own names all over it in red, layer on layer, seasons of them. That boulder is the photograph. That is what two weeks of walking ends at.

And Everest is right there behind the camp, and you cannot see its face from it. What you get is Nuptse, Lhotse and the Everest ridge, which is a serious thing to stand under, and which is not the picture in your head. The full view comes the next morning from Kala Patthar at 5,545 m, south and west, nothing in the way. That is the panorama people talk about afterwards.

So this reel is about what is actually at Base Camp, since almost nobody shows you.

The ground goes first. Somewhere past Lobuche the trail stops looking like a trail. You are on the lateral moraine of the Khumbu Glacier from there to the camp, which is rubble sitting on ice, and it asks more of your ankles and your attention than the gradient does. Gorak Shep, where you sleep the night before, is a few teahouses on a frozen lake bed at 5,164 m. Base Camp and back from there is three to four hours. All of it is above 5,000 m, so you stop every 50 to 100 metres to breathe, and that is normal, and it is not a verdict on your fitness.

Then the things that never make it into the posts. Ice cliffs along the moraine wall. A green pool of meltwater inside the glacier, the colour of old bottle glass. And the Khumbu Icefall over the top of all of it, silent in autumn, and in spring full of ladder teams at first light.

About the tents, because this is the one that misleads people. The photograph everybody has seen, the canvas city of several hundred tents on the ice, is April and May. That is expedition season: teams staging for summit pushes, puja ceremonies, load rotations, ladder practice in the Icefall before dawn. Come in October, when most trekkers come, and it is gone, and what is left is moraine, rubble, prayer flags on cairns, and maybe a few orange remnants nobody has carried down yet. Both of those are Everest Base Camp. Only one of them is on your feed.

Everything in this reel is our own footage, two groups, two years, 2024 and 2025. Nothing licensed, nothing borrowed.

One thing we do differently on the day. Most groups leave Gorak Shep mid-morning, so we go at first light instead, which means the moraine is largely ours on the walk in and the main wave is still an hour behind when we reach the rock. Kala Patthar then takes the same afternoon or the next dawn, whichever the wind allows.

People go quiet at that boulder. Some of them do the opposite and put their arms in the air, and you can see exactly that in the last few seconds of this.

Base Camp is not the view. It is the arrival.

The 15-day Everest Base Camp trek: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek

The full guide to the trail: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/blog/everest-base-camp-trek-complete-guide

April, when the tent city is up: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek-in-april

October, when it is not: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek-in-october

12/08/2026

The first ten seconds of this video are supposed to confuse you. The whole category is confusing. That is the point of it.

Nepal has trekking, the part you know: teahouses and a trail any fit person can walk. Nepal also has mountaineering, the part you have watched in films and quietly filed under "other people." Between those two, the Nepal Mountaineering Association keeps a third list, with a name that sounds like a contradiction: trekking peaks.

A trekking peak is a real summit that asks for no climbing resume. You trek to its base camp the ordinary way, and there your climbing Sherpa teaches the gear at the tents: crampons, roped walking, self-arrest with an ice axe, clipping a fixed line. You use it once, on summit morning, and walk back down with a 6,000 metre summit behind you.

We run two.

Island Peak, 6,189 metres. Imja Tse on the permit. The push starts between midnight and 2 AM, and the crux is about two hours of steep headwall by headlamp before a fixed line runs the last 300 metres of ridge.

Mera Peak, 6,476 metres, the highest trekking peak in Nepal. Higher than Island, and gentler: a long roped walk on snow instead of a climb. The skills session happens above Khare, at 4,900 metres.

The footage in this reel is ours, from a March 2024 climb. The rope in the opening shot is not a prop. Someone was on the other end of it.

The trek gets you there. The rope gets you up.

Island Peak: mountainhawktrek.com/tours/nepal-tour-packages/peak-climbing/island-peak-climbing
Mera Peak: mountainhawktrek.com/tours/nepal-tour-packages/peak-climbing/mera-peak-climb-via-zatra-la-pass

07/08/2026

Runway 24, Lukla. 527 meters of tarmac on an 11.7 percent grade, parked at 2,860 meters on a shelf above the Dudh Koshi.

Planes land uphill on 06. The slope does the braking. They take off downhill on 24, and past the far threshold the ground simply stops. Once a pilot commits there is no second try, which is why every Everest trek that has ever been walked starts with the same 25-minute flight.

Sound on for this one. Everything you hear is the airfield itself. Engine idle, a takeoff roll, one rotation roaring past the fence, and a helicopter working the ridge. We recorded all of it standing at that fence in November.

Before you book, three things the brochures skip:

The whole flying day happens at dawn. Valley wind owns the afternoon, so morning seats are the ones that actually fly.

In October and November every rotation leaves from Ramechhap, not Kathmandu. That is a 4 to 5 hour drive you make the evening before, or at 2 a.m. on flight day.

When weather shuts the strip, helicopters keep the valley moving, at several times the fare.

So build the buffer day. One spare day in Kathmandu absorbs almost everything this runway can decide. We build every Everest itinerary around that fact, and our guides are from Solukhumbu, so nobody on our side is guessing.

Full trek details: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/everest-region/everest-base-camp-trek
When to go, month by month: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek-in-october

06/08/2026

The best month in the Himalaya has a date.

Right now, in August, the monsoon is finishing its job: washing a year of dust out of the sky. What it leaves behind is October. Air so clean that ridgelines a hundred kilometres away look close enough to touch.

We publish a season guide for five treks: Everest Base Camp, the Annapurna Circuit, Annapurna Base Camp, Langtang Valley, and P**n Hill. Twelve months each, written honestly. October's verdict reads the same on every one of them. Clearest skies of the year. Busiest trail of the year.

The numbers behind this reel come straight from those pages. 10 to 14 degrees by day at altitude, nights to minus 8. Two to four days of precipitation on the Everest trail the whole month. And peak
crowds, because none of this is a secret. Lobuche and Gorak Shep are small villages wiugh the heart of October they sell out daily. Lukla flights for the peak weeks are gonewell in advance.

Which is why October is decided in August. Reserve the beds while they exist, lock the flights with them, and the busiest month of the year becomes an easy one.

Two of the shots in this reel were filmed in the second week of October. The light is r the rains, the sky really does look like that.

Pick your month, we'll handle the mountain:
www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time

October on the Everest trail, day by day:
www.mountainhawktrek.com/best-time/everest-base-camp-trek-in-october

05/08/2026

He was born in Dana, a village on the Kali Gandaki that most trekkers pass through in twenty minutes on the road from Tatopani to Ghasa. There is a waterfall across the valley and usually a queue of jeeps. That is Myagdi. Our guides have drunk tea there more times than any of us could count.

The boy from that village became the fastest mountaineer in history. Fourteen peaks above 8,000 metres in six months and six days, in 2019, when the record stood at almost eight years. K2 in winter, the last great first, climbed on 16 January 2021 with nine other Nepalis, the whole team singing the anthem as they walked the final steps together.

On 30 July an avalanche on Broad Peak took him, along with nine climbers in his care. He was 43.

Nepal has lost many of her children to the mountains. This one carried our flag where it had never been. We are thinking today of his family, and of the families of all ten who did not come home.

Rest well, Nimsdai. The mountains you came from will keep your name.

Footage: Nirmal Purja ()

31/07/2026

We usually cut every two seconds. Quick shots, hard hooks, that is how reels are supposed to work.

This one runs 28 seconds without a single cut, because Manang does not need editing.

Our founder filmed it on his phone at 8:37 in the morning, from a rooftop above the village. No tripod, no drone, no second attempt. One slow look across the whole valley, past the tin roofs and the prayer flags, up the rock towers, along the ice wall of the Gangapurna, and out over the glacier moraine, until the camera lands on the teahouse next door. Then breakfast.

Manang sits at 3,519 metres, and everyone walking the Annapurna Circuit sleeps here twice. The second night is not for your legs. It is for your blood. We tell every group the same thing before they leave the village: Thorong La is decided in Manang, not on pass day. The trekkers who give this place its two quiet nights are the ones who stand on the pass smiling. The ones who rush through are the ones we end up walking back down.

So this is what an acclimatization day actually looks like. Bakeries. Laundry drying in mountain sun. Yaks wandering between stone walls older than anyone who can tell you their age. A morning long enough to just stand on a roof and look at where you are.

Most people watch a view like this for a few seconds and scroll on. Out here it stays. You wake up to it, you eat under it, and on the second morning you finally stop photographing it and just have your tea.

Turn the sound on. That wind is the real 8:37 a.m.

The full 16-day Circuit itinerary, with both Manang nights where they belong: https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region/annapurna-circuit-trek

30/07/2026

Turn your sound on.

Everything in this video is the same thing. The ice cracking under our boots above 4,000 metres. The spouts at Muktinath where pilgrims line up to get soaked in freezing holy water. The lake under the Gangapurna glacier, so quiet all you hear is wind. The river that will not shut up. Thps 50 metres right beside the road and mists you when the wind turns.

Water. All of it on one trek.

And here is the part we love. At the end of the day, somebody in a teahouse kitchen boils that same mountain water and puts it back in front of you as soup and a pot of tea. You drink the thing you
walked beside all day.

Every sound in this reel is real. The roar, the trickle, the footsteps, the dinner chathe mountains did the rest.

Come walk beside it. The whole chain, ice to cup, is the Annapurna Circuit:
https://www.mountainhawktrek.com/tours/trekking-in-nepal/annapurna-region/annapurna-circuit-trek

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