Mountaineering

Nepal is a country of mountains and mountaineering is one of the famous adventure activities here. Mountaineering, which began as an attempt to reach the highest point of unclimbed big mountains, now has branched into specializations that address different activities of mountains like trekking in the highest level of altitude possible. Tourist all over the world believes the best destination for mountaineering in Nepal.

There are fourteen peaks over the world, among them eight lies in Nepal. Besides these eight giant peaks, there are 326 other mountains within Nepal that are open for mountaineering expeditions, and out of them, 103 have never been climbed before.

List of the above 8000m peaks in Nepal are  Mt. Mount Everest (8,848.86 m), Mt. Kanchenjunga (8,586 m), Mt. Lhotse (8,156 m), Mt. Makalu (8,463 m), Mt. Cho Oyu (8,201 m), Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167 m), Mt. Manaslu (8,163 m), and Mt. Annapurna I (8,091 m).