13 routes
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Grades describe sustained effort and altitude, not technical difficulty. None of these routes needs ropes or climbing experience.
Easy
Four to six hours of walking a day below about 3,500 m. Suitable if you walk regularly and have no altitude experience.
1 route · from $580
Moderate
Five to seven hours a day with sustained climbs, topping out around 4,000–4,500 m. Two months of hill walking beforehand makes a real difference.
6 routes · from $0
Strenuous
Six to eight hours a day, several nights above 4,500 m and a high point over 5,300 m. Altitude, not fitness, is what turns people back here.
4 routes · from $0
Challenging
Long days, a high pass over 5,100 m carrying full weather risk, and remote sections a day or more from a road. Previous high-altitude trekking expected.
2 routes · from $0
Into the Annapurna Sanctuary at 4,130 m, finishing at the Jhinu hot springs
From, per person
$1,050$1,240
$95/day
Ridge walking above the cloud to a 4,500 m viewpoint below Machhapuchhre
From, per person
$720
$105/day
The closest big Himalayan valley to Kathmandu, and the one that rebuilt itself
From, per person
$850$990
$85/day
A restricted-area walk into the walled capital of the old kingdom of Lo
From, per person
$2,450
$205/day
The short Khumbu walk that tops out at 3,880 m
From, per person
$0
$0/day
Tilicho Lake
From, per person
$7000
$60/day
