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Nepal’s ‘hidden’ mountains draw new wave of climbers
Gulf Today
|October 22, 2025
Nepal's mountains including Everest have long drawn climbers from across the world, but a growing community is exploring hidden summits promising solitude and the chance to be first to the top.
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The Himalayan nation is home to eight of the world’s IO highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers every year, making mountaineering a lucrative business.
While commercial expeditions dominate on Everest and other 8,000-metre giants, a new generation of adventurers is looking sideways rather than upward — towards the countless 6,000-and 7,000m summits studding Nepal.
The country has 462 peaks open for climbing and around a hundred have never been summited.
This story is from the October 22, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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