14 Peaks Expedition has opened the Spring 2026 Himalayan season with a successful summit of Annapurna (8,091m) on the morning of April 18, making it the first eight-thousander to be climbed this season.
Seven Summit Treks (SST) has recorded a successful summit on Annapurna (8,091m) on April 18, with a five-member international team and seven Nepali guides reaching the top under favourable weather conditions, adding to the growing list of Spring 2026 ascents on the peak.
Pioneer Adventures has recorded the first summit of the season on Mt. Dhaulagiri (8,167m) this morning, with a 17-member team of international climbers and Nepali guides reaching the top of the world's seventh highest peak.
Fura Diki Sherpa, the Solukhumbu mountaineer who made history in 2019 as part of the first widow pair to summit Everest, is preparing for one of her most ambitious challenges yet — a women's speed record attempt on Mt. Lhotse (8,516m) this spring, preceded by a plan to summit three peaks in under 24 hours.
Seven Summit Treks' rope-fixing team reached the summit of Mount Makalu (8,485m) at 5:40 PM on Saturday, marking the first successful ascent of the peak in the Spring 2026 season and opening the route for the remainder of the climbing season.
A five-member team from AltiPro Adventures reached the summit of Annapurna I (8,091m) on Saturday, April 18, adding to what is shaping up to be an active spring season on one of the world's most challenging eight-thousanders.
A nine-member team from Imagine Nepal reached the summit of Mount Dhaulagiri (8,167m) on April 17, completing a gruelling ascent that saw the expedition battered by severe storms and ten days of blizzards that destroyed fixed ropes and supplies on the mountain.
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Legendary Nepali mountaineer Sanu Sherpa has added another chapter to his extraordinary record, reaching the summit of Mount Dhaulagiri (8,167m) as part of Pioneer Adventures' 17-member team on April 18 — bringing him to 12 of the 14 eight-thousanders climbed three times.
Nirmal "Nims" Purja has recorded his 50th true ascent of an 8,000-metre peak, reaching the summit of Dhaulagiri (8,167m) on April 18 as part of an Elite Exped team — a world record milestone that adds another landmark to one of the most remarkable careers in high-altitude mountaineering.