Sixteen days round the seventh-highest mountain on earth and over two passes above 5,200 m, as a full camping trek with no teahouses.
This is the hardest thing we run, and the one we're proudest of. The Dhaulagiri Circuit goes round the back of an 8,167 m mountain on a route with no lodges, no villages above Boghara and no easy way out once you commit. It runs as a full camping expedition, with a kitchen crew and porters carrying everything, tents included. You walk up the Myagdi Khola onto the Chhonbardan glacier and camp at Italian Base Camp and Dhaulagiri Base Camp under the north face. Then you cross French Pass at 5,360 m into Hidden Valley, sleep at 5,200 m, and cross Dhampus Pass at 5,250 m to drop into Mustang at Marpha. We carry group climbing gear for the glacier sections and a comprehensive medical kit. You need previous high-altitude experience, and we'll say no if you don't have it. On a clear morning at French Pass, it's about as good as trekking gets.
Send your dates. No payment now.
We check guide and permit availability, then reply on WhatsApp or by email with your day-by-day plan and a confirmed price, usually within a few hours, always within a day.
Nothing to pay until you're happy. We agree the deposit together, and you pay the balance in Pokhara.
It's harder in every way: higher, colder, remoter and longer, with camping throughout, glacier travel and no way to bail out in the middle. The Circuit is a teahouse trek with a big pass. This is a small expedition.
There's no technical climbing, but you'll be on glacier and moraine at altitude, and roped up in places. Previous high-altitude trekking experience is close to essential.
Because there's no infrastructure. Every meal, tent and litre of fuel for sixteen days is carried in by people who have to be paid, fed and properly equipped. A teahouse trek rents what already exists, and this trek builds it as it goes. Our price covers that crew, the permits, the jeep to Darbang and the flight out of Jomsom.
That's the serious question. In the committed section the answer is to descend on foot with the crew's help. A helicopter evacuation only happens if the weather allows, and at those altitudes it often doesn't. That's why we're strict about experience and insurance.
Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve/Bukipatan Trek is graded Challenging and tops out at 5,360 m. In our Trek Finder it comes up for walkers who pick “Very fit, with high-altitude experience”, and “Passes & base camps welcome” on altitude. Tell us how much walking you’ve done and we’ll tell you whether it fits.
Yes, it’s private, for 1 to 12 people. It starts from Lakeside, Pokhara.
No. You send your dates and pay nothing now. We check guide and permit availability, then reply on WhatsApp or by email with your day-by-day plan and a confirmed price, usually within a few hours, always within a day.
Nothing until you’re happy. We agree the deposit together, and you pay the balance in Pokhara.
Free date changes up to 15 days before departure.
Full refund if we cancel for weather or safety.
The long version is in our trail guide: The Dhaulagiri Circuit is the hardest thing we run (8 min read) →
≈ US$3,290 per person. We reply on WhatsApp or by email, usually within a few hours, always within a day.
Nothing to pay online. We confirm your dates first.
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