The Himalayan Rescue Association Nepal (HRA) has officially launched its Spring 2026 operations, deploying specialist medical teams at three aid posts across Nepal's most frequented high-altitude trekking and climbing corridors.
Nepal has issued climbing permits to 82 mountaineers across 10 expedition teams in the first 25 days of the spring climbing season, collecting $124,050 (approximately NPR 18.4 million) in royalties, according to data released by the Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.
The popular Sauraha Food Festival is set to return for its 20th edition on March 26, 27, and 28, bringing three days of food, culture, and live entertainment to the tourist hub of Sauraha in Chitwan.
Khadakaraj Paudel, widely known as Ganesh Paudel, has been appointed Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal in the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah.
Nepal's new government has placed wellness and adventure tourism at the heart of its 100-point governance reform agenda, setting tight deadlines for actionable tourism plans as part of its delivery-based governance framework approved by the cabinet on Friday.
More than 15 local stakeholders and entrepreneurs from the upper Manaslu region have completed an introductory search and rescue training programme, in an effort to strengthen emergency response capacity along one of Nepal's most incident-prone trekking corridors.
The Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has issued the first climbing permit of the spring 2026 season for Mount Everest, formally opening the Himalayan climbing season on the world's highest peak.
In a bid to strengthen emergency preparedness across Nepal's most frequented trekking corridors, the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) and the Sustainable Tourism Project (STP) have simultaneously rolled out introductory search and rescue training programmes in three separate regions — the Everest, Manaslu, and Kanchenjunga circuits.