3–4 days
Khumai Danda
The quiet ridge next to Mardi. Machhapuchhre close, forest then pasture. Three or four days. Fewer people than the Mardi highway.
Khumai sits on the next ridge over from Mardi Himal, reached from Ghachok rather than Kande. You climb through Gurung farmland into mossy forest, then pasture at Hile Kharka and Chichimle, then a ridge lodge at Khumai Danda (about 3,245 m). Machhapuchhre is close — the same fish-tail Mardi looks at, from a quieter line. Korchan (around 3,700 m) is a pre-dawn walk from the lodge, not a village.
Fewer people than the Mardi camps. Forest, kharka, a thin ridge. You can still see the city on the way in.
- Days
- 3–4 days
- Beds
- Sparse · A few teahouses at Hile Kharka, Chichimle, and Khumai. Not Mardi High Camp density. Korchan is a dawn walk from the lodge, not a hotel.
- Start
- Ghachok — jeep from Pokhara, about an hour
- High point
- 3,700 m