Nā te waipuke o te awa o Budhi Gandaki i te 11 o Oketopa 2026 i ara ake ai ngā āwangawanga nui mō te urunga ki te hikoi i te rohe o Manaslu i Nepal. E whakaatu ana ngā pūrongo tuatahi i te kino o ngā piriti, ngā kāinga i te taha o te awa, ngā rori me ngā wāhanga o te ara hikoi o raro i te Rohe o Gorkha. I te tīmatanga o te wā hikoi o te ngahuru, me mōhio te hunga e whakamahere ana i tētahi haerenga ki ngā pānga pea o te kino ki ā rātou haerenga.
Ehara i te mea ko te āhua o ngā ara hīkoi anake te āwangawanga nui. E whakawhirinaki ana te Ara Hīkoi Manaslu ki tētahi raupapa piriti, ara kāinga me ngā huarahi rori i te Awaawa o Budhi Gandaki. Mēnā kua pakaru tētahi o ngā whitinga, ā, kāore e taea e ngā kaihiki te haere haumaru, ahakoa te pai o ngā āhuatanga kei runga ake i te maunga.
Kāore e tika ana kia kiia te Manaslu Circuit Trail he huarahi e taea ai te uru atu, e haumaru ana hoki mō ngā haerenga hou mai i te 12 o Oketopa 2026 whai muri i te waipuke o Budhi Gandaki. Me mahi anō kia whakaūtia te nui o te kino me te āhua o ngā wāhanga rerekē o ngā ara. I tēnei wā, kāore he kōrero tuturu mō te wā ka whakatuwheratia anō ai te kura.

He aha te mea i tupu i te wa o te Waipuke Budhi Gandaki?
I puta he waipuke ohorere i te ara o te awa o Budhi Gandaki i te raki-waenganui o Nepōra i te Rātapu, te 11 o Oketopa. I mua i te hinganga o te ārai, i puta te waipuke nā te horo whenua i ārai i te awa e tata ana ki Chumchure, e ai ki te pūrongo a te Associated Press.
E ai ki ngā pūrongo tuatahi, e rima ngā tāngata i ngaro, e 49 ngā tāngata i whakaorangia i te ahiahi o te Rātapu, e whā ngā piriti i pakaru, ā, e toru tekau mā whā ngā whare i horomia. I pakaru hoki tētahi papa hanga hiko wai me ngā whakaurunga hiko me ngā ratonga whakawhitiwhiti kōrero. I whakawāteahia e ngā mana whakahaere ngā kāinga i roto i te mōrearea, pērā i te hapori taha awa o Arughat.
He taurangi noa iho ēnei, ā, ka rerekē pea. Ko ngā kaupapa matua e whai ake nei ko te rapu i ngā tāngata ngaro, te āwhina i ngā kainoho e pāngia ana, me te whakahoki mai i te urunga atu ki ngā whare matua.
He tino mōrearea te waipuke mō ngā hikoi i te rohe, i te mea e haere ana a Budhi Gandaki mā te wāhanga raro rawa o te ara hikoi o Manaslu. Engari ko ngā rongo mō te aituā whānui o te awa kāore e tohu ana i te āhua o ngā piriti me ngā ara hikoi katoa e whakamahia ana e ngā kaihikoi.
He aha ngā pānga o te waipuke ki te hikoi porowhita o Manaslu?
Ka haere te Ara Porowhita Manaslu mā roto i ngā kāinga tūmatanui i te Raorao o Budhi Gandaki, e anga atu ana ki ngā kāinga teitei o te Himalayas. Ka tīmata te huarahi noa mā te haerenga rori ki Machha Khola mai i Kathmandu, kātahi ka hikoi mā roto i a Jagat, Deng, Namrung, Lho, Samagaun me Samdo. Kātahi ka whiti ngā kaihiki i te Ara o Larkya La ka anga atu ki raro ki Bimthang me Dharapani.
Ko te awaawa o raro te wāhi matua e āwangawangahia ana whai muri i te waipuke o Oketopa. Ko ngā whakahoutanga hikoi e tohu tuatahi ana i te kino o ngā piriti me ngā ara hīkoi i ngā ara hīkoi huri noa i a Machha Khola, Jagat, Sirdibas me ētahi atu kāinga. Me toro atu ki te wāhi te āhua tuturu o ia whitinga me te mea kei te haere tonu tēnei ara.
Ka pā pea tēnei kino ki te urunga atu ki ngā kāinga i te taha whakarunga o Budhi Gandaki, ki ngā wāhi kāore i tae atu ngā wai waipuke i te Manaslu Circuit Trek. Kaua ngā kaihikihiki e whakaaro noa he ara e taea ana te haere nā te mea e kitea ana tētahi wāhanga o te ara, nā te mea rānei e tuwhera ana tētahi rori i ētahi kiromita te tawhiti.
Kei raro anō hoki i ngā whakaritenga mō te wāhi noho ā-rohe, te whakarato kai, te kawe waka me te urunga atu ki ngā āhuatanga ohorere te huarahi. Mēnā ka kore e taea te hikoi nā te kino o ēnei ratonga, ahakoa i roto i te rohe waipuke tonu, ka pāngia pea.
Ko ēhea ngā wāhanga e pāngia ana, ā, he aha ngā mea e mōhiotia ana mō te ara o runga?
Machha Khola ki Jagat
He mea āwangawanga te wāhanga hikoi o raro o Machha Khola me Jagat nā te mea he whitinga awa me ngā ara whaiti e tata ana ki ngā pari pari. E ai ki ngā pūrongo a ngā mana whakahaere ā-rohe mō te kino o te piriti iri i waenganui i a Machha Khola me Kerauja me te whitinga i waenganui i a Nyakchet me Sirdibas. I pūrongohia hoki kua horomia tētahi piriti rino tata ki Soti.
He ratonga ēnei whakawhiti mō ngā hapori o te rohe me ngā kaihaerere. Mā te ngaronga o ēnei huarahi ka ārai pea i te haere i waenga i ngā kāinga, ahakoa kāore ētahi wāhanga o te ara hīkoi i pakaru. Ko ētahi atu tūponotanga kāore pea e kitea i taua wā ka puta mai i te horo o ngā ara, ngā pareparenga awa kāore i te pumau, me ngā paru.
Jagat, Sirdibas and Philim
Kua pāngia hoki ngā hapori huri noa o Jagat me ōna rohe. Kua pūrongohia te kino o ngā whare i te taha o te awa me te kino o ngā hanganga o te rohe, tae atu ki ētahi piriti e hono ana i ngā kāinga.
I mua i te hikoi, me tirotiro te āhua o te ara katoa i roto i tēnei rohe. Me huri pea te whiti kua pakaru mā te huri roa, engari kāore pea i te haumaru, i te whai hua rānei te whiti taupua mō ngā kaihikoi.
Deng, Namrung, Samagaun me Larkya La
Kāore i te rawaka ngā mōhiohio i tēnei wā hei tohu i te nui katoa o ngā kino i pā mai i te waipuke ki Deng, Namrung, Samagaun, Samdo, Larkya La Pass rānei. E whakaatu ana ngā mōhiohio ā-rohe he nui ake te kino i pā mai i te huarahi o runga i te huarahi o raro o te awaawa.
Ahakoa te iti o te kino tika, ehara i te mea he haumaru, he wātea hoki te ara o runga. I te ara raro, e āraia tonutia ana, ko te ara o raro te ara tuatahi e whai ai ngā kaihaerere i te huarahi paerewa.
I raro i ngā āhuatanga noa, he ara maunga teitei a Larkya La Pass (5,106 m/16,752 putu) e hiahia ana kia āta whakamaheretia. Ko te pātai nui kei roto i te hinengaro o te katoa i tēnei wā ko te haumaru o ngā kaihikihiki ki te tae ki te huarahi matua, me te mea kei te wātea ngā wāhi tika mō te moe i te pō, te kai me te āwhina ohorere.
He aha te take o te waipuke?
I mua i te rerenga mai o te waipuke ki te awa, i kīia nā te whenua i kati te awa. He rerekē ngā taipitopito o ngā kaupapa me te wāhi i aukatia ai te awa i roto i ngā pūrongo tuatahi, ā, kaua e whakaaetia te pūtake me te tikanga kua tino whakapumautia.
Ka taea e te horo whenua te aukati i te awa mā te whakatakoto i te nui o te oneone, ngā toka me ngā paru ki tōna awaawa. Ka kohikohi te wai i muri i te aukati. Ina kore e pai, ka rere te wai e rongoa ana i roto i te ārai ki raro, ka uru te paru me ngā paru, ka memeha ngā piriti me ngā tahataha awa, ka kino hoki ngā nohoanga.
Ka taea e ngā tauira o tēnei momo waipuke te whakararu i ngā wāhi e tawhiti ana i te tīmatanga o te whenua horo. Ka taea hoki e ia te waiho i ngā tūponotanga ina heke te taumata o te wai, pērā i te pari ngoikore, te whenua kore pumau me ngā whitinga kua pakaru.
Ki ngā kaihikihiki, ko te mea nui, ahakoa te āhua marino o te awa i muri i te waipuke, ehara i te mea he haumaru te ara i tērā taha. Me aromatawai te tangata i ngā kino i mua i te hokinga anō ki ngā wāhi kua pakaru.
Kei te mauheretia ngā kaihaerere i te rohe o Manaslu?
Āe. I roto i tētahi pūrongo a Reuters i whakaputaina i te 12 o Oketopa, i kīia ai neke atu i te 100 ngā kaihaereere o tāwāhi kua mauheretia ki te rohe i pāngia e te waipuke o te Rohe o Gorkha. Kei te haere tonu ngā mahi whakaora, me te āwhina a ngā mana whakahaere i ngā manuhiri me ngā kainoho ki te neke ki te wāhi haumaru. Ko te hunga i pāngia i tatari mō te whakaoranga, i hikoi rānei i roto i ngā wāhanga haumaru o te huarahi, me te tautoko a ngā pakihi ā-rohe i roto i te Kaupapa Rohe Tiaki o Manaslu, e ai ki te whakahaere.
Tērā pea ka rerekē te āhua o te wai i runga i te wāhi kei reira te rōpū hikoi i te wā o te waipuke. Tērā pea ka tūpono atu ngā tāngata i ngā kāinga o raro kua pāngia ki ētahi atu tūponotanga, ki te whakaritea ki te hunga kua piki ake te wai i te awa, me te hunga kua whiti i Larkya La, ā, kua heke ki ngā kāinga o Dharapani.
I roto i te rohe, me pupuri tonu e ngā kaihaerere te whakapā atu ki ā rātou kaiārahi raihana, me noho tonu hoki i raro i ngā tohutohu a ngā mana whakahaere ā-rohe, ā, kaua hoki e ngana ki te whiti i ngā whitinga pakaru me te kore he āwhina a ngā kaiārahi. Kaua rātou e tumanako ka tuwhera he ara kua mōhiotia nā te mea i hikoi rātou i mua i te waipuke.
Me whakatau e ngā mana whakaora me ngā mana whakahaere ā-rohe ngā nekehanga haumaru. Kaua e haere mā roto i ngā wāhi pakaru hei ngana ki te tae atu ki te rori, ki te wāhi tīmatanga rānei.
He haumaru te hikoi i te ara porowhita o Manaslu i muri i te waipuke?
I tēnei wā, ko te kōwhiringa pai ko te whakaroa i te haerenga hou kia tirohia rā anō te ara kua pāngia, ā, kia haumaru hoki te haere. He taunakitanga tēnei, ehara i te katinga mana o ngā wāhanga katoa o te ara iahiko nā te kino, ā, kāore he urunga e ripoatatia.
He mea nui rawa te whakahoutanga mō te haumaru o te hikoi i Manaslu mō te hunga e whakaaro ana ki te haere i te marama o Oketopa me Noema. Kāore te rangi i te tino pūtake hei whakatau i te haumaru o ngā piriti, ngā ara me ngā rori.
Ko ngā ara kua kore e haumaru i te waipuke, ka noho hei ana i raro i ngā waewae, ā, ka noho tonu ngā toka me ngā pari paru hei mea morearea ahakoa kua mimiti te wai waipuke. Ka hua ake hoki i te korenga o ngā piriti te korenga o ngā whiti awa haumaru mō ngā kaihaerere. Ina ngoikore te urunga atu ki ngā ratonga whakaora me ngā ratonga whakawhitiwhiti kōrero, ka nui ake te kino o ēnei raruraru.
Kei te Tari Whakahaere Rohe, Gorkha me te Kaupapa Rohe Tiaki o Manaslu ngā mōhiohio huarahi. He mea nui hoki kia whiwhi ngā kamupene hikoi i ngā mōhiohio tuatahi mai i ngā kaiārahi me ngā hapori i te ara e maherehia ana e rātou.
I te 12 o Oketopa 2026, kāore anō kia whakaūtia he rā mō te whakatuwheratanga katoa o te ara raro kua pāngia i roto i ngā mōhiohio kua arotakehia mō tēnei tuhinga.

Me aha ngā tāngata e haere mai ana ki te tuku pukapuka?
Ko te hunga kua rēhita i tētahi haerenga ki Manaslu me whakapā atu ki te tari hikoi i mua i te haerenga atu. Me tono he mahere katoa mō te huarahi, pērā i ngā rori, ngā piriti me ngā wāhi noho.
Me arotake ngā āhuatanga o te Ara Hīkoi Porowhita o Manaslu mō te ara katoa, kaua ko te rā tuatahi anake mō te hikoi, mō te wāhanga maunga o runga rānei. Ahakoa kei te wātea tonu ētahi kāinga, kāore tēnei e whakarite kia taea te haereere haumaru i te kāinga katoa.
Me whai whakaaro anō hoki ki ngā tikanga mō te whakaroa, te whakarite anō i ngā wā me te whakahoki moni i mua i te whakarerekētanga o ngā mahere. Pātai atu mēnā kei roto i te inihua haere te whakaroa i te haerenga, te whakawātea ohorere me te hikoi i ngā wāhi kua tukuna e te kāwanatanga ngā whakatūpato. Ka rerekē te kapinga i runga i te kaupapa here takitahi; me whakamana me te kaiwhakarato inihua.
Kaua e tango i ngā ara poto kāore i te mana, te whiti i ngā piriti kua pakaru me ngā whiti awa kāore i te mana, me te kore whakamanatanga me te aromatawai haumaru. Whaia ngā whakahau a ngā mana whakahaere ā-rohe kia noho ki tō wāhi haumaru.
Me noho tonu ngā manuhiri kua tae kē ki te rohe ki tā rātou kaiārahi, ā, me whakarongo ki ngā tohutohu a ngā mana whakahaere ā-rohe. Mēnā he raruraru te whakawhitiwhiti kōrero, me rapu huarahi ki tētahi wāhi haumaru i raro i ngā aratohu a te rohe, kaua e ngana ki te whakaoti i te kaupapa haerenga.
Āhea ka tuwhera anō te Manaslu Circuit?
I te 12 o Oketopa 2026, kāore anō kia whakatūwherahia he rā whaimana mō te whakatuwheratanga anō o te ara raro o Manaslu kua pāngia. Ka whakawhirinaki te wā ki te nui o te kino, te āhua o te awa, ngā tirotiro me te whakatū anō i ngā ara haumaru mō te hunga hīkoi.
Me arotake e ngā mana whakahaere me ngā tīma e tika ana ngā piriti kua pakaru, me tirotiro i ngā ara kua horo me ngā pari kāore i te pumau, me te whakarite i ngā ara haumaru i waenga i ngā kāinga i mua i te tīmatanga anō o te hikoi. Me aro atu pea ki ngā hononga rori, ngā whare noho, ngā whakawhitiwhiti kōrero me ngā āwhina ohorere.
Tērā pea ka āta haere te whakatuwheratanga anō, kaua e tere tonu i te ara hikoi. E kore e taea e te whakatuwheratanga o te rori, e te whakatikatika rānei i te piriti te kī taurangi ka haumaru ngā wāhanga hikoi katoa.
Mō te Ara Hīkoi Porowhita o Manaslu i muri i te waipuke o Budhi Gandaki, me titiro te iwi ki tētahi whakahoutanga kua oti te whakarite hei whakaū anō i te wāhanga o te ara. Kāore e ranea te kōrero whānui mō te pai ake o te rangi, te kore rānei o ngā huringa i ngā kāinga o runga hei whakamārama i te wehenga.
He aha te tikanga o te waipuke ki ngā hapori o te rohe?
Ehara i te mea ko te tūruhi anake ngā pānga. He mea nui ngā rori, ngā piriti me ngā ara hīkoi kia taea ai e ngā kainoho o te Raorao o Budhi Gandaki te uru atu ki te hauora, ki ngā kura, ki ngā kai me ētahi atu ratonga nui. Ka pā kino pea te waipuke ki ngā kāinga me ngā hanganga o te rohe ki te oranga o ia rā, ahakoa te roa o te waipuke tuatahi.
Ka puta hoki he moni whiwhi i te wā hikoi i te ngahuru mai i ngā kaiārahi, ngā kaikawe, ngā kaiwhakahaere waka, ngā whare tī me ngā toa iti. Ka ngaro pea i ēnei kaimahi me ngā pakihi he moni whiwhi nui i te wā o te tau ina kore he huarahi e wātea ana.
Engari me whai muri i te whakarite kia haumaru te urunga atu me ngā ratonga taketake te whakaoranga o te tūruhi. Me whai wā me te tautoko kia taea ai e te iwi o te rohe me ngā tīma whakaora me ngā tīma whakatika te urupare ki te aituā.
Me whakaute i ngā here, me karo i ngā wāhi e pāngia ana, ā, me whakarerekē ngā pukapuka haerenga me te tari hikoi me te kawenga a ngā kaihaerere. Kaua e whakaūngia ētahi atu whakaritenga mō te whakatau haumaru ki ngā hapori kua pāngia e ngā pānga o te waipuke.
Pātai Auau
Ka taea e au te tīmata i te Ara Hīkoi o Manaslu i te Oketopa 2026?
Me whakaroa ngā mahere haere hou kia arotakehia rā anō te ara e pāngia ana, ā, kia haumaru hoki te haere. Tērā pea ka rerekē tēnei, ā, tae noa ki te 12 o Oketopa, kāore anō kia whakaūtia.
Kua pakaru a Larkya La Pass?
Kāore ngā pūrongo i arotakehia e whakaatu ana i tētahi kino tika i pā ki Larkya La Pass (5,106 m /16,752 putu) nā te waipuke. Ehara tēnei i te kī kei te tuwhera te ara, kei te wātea rānei te ara hikoi.
Kua pāngia te Tsum Valley Trail?
Āe. Ka tangohia e te huarahi o Tsum Valley ētahi wāhanga o te ara o raro o Budhi Gandaki, ā, e ai ki ngā pūrongo kua āraia te urunga. E taunakihia ana kia whakaroa te hunga haereere i te urunga ki tēnei ara kia whiwhi rā anō rātou i te whakaū kei te haumaru te haere.
Ka taea e au te whiriwhiri i tētahi atu wāhi hikoi i Nepōra?
Tērā pea, engari me tirotiro ngā wāhi kē atu mō ngā āhuatanga o ngā ara, te urunga atu ki ngā waka, te rangi me ngā here o nāianei. Kaua e whakaaro he haumaru tētahi atu rohe nā te mea ehara i te wāhanga o te awa e pāngia ana.
Kei hea ahau e whiwhi ai i ngā whakahōutanga pono?
Tena koa whakapā atu ki te kamupene hikoi, me te whakahōu anō hoki ki ngā tari e whai ake nei: Tari Whakahaere Rohe, Gorkha, Kaupapa Rohe Tiaki Manaslu me ngā umanga whakahaere āwhati tata o Nepōra. Kimihia ngā mōhiohio hou, e tika ana hoki mō te huarahi e hiahiatia ana e koe.

Thoughts Final
Nā te waipuke o Budhi Gandaki i te 11 o Oketopa 2026 i tino whakararuraru te rohe o Manaslu, ā, kua pakaru ngā piriti, kua pāngia ngā kāinga me ngā aukati i te huarahi hikoi. Ko ngā mahi whakaora me te whakaora ā-rohe he kaupapa matua tonu.
Ka taea te whakatuwhera anō i te Ara Hīkoi Manaslu i muri i te waipuke o Budhi Gandaki i muri i te tirotiro i ngā hanganga me ngā wāhanga kua pāngia o te ara hīkoi, ā, kua haumaru hoki. I nāianei, kaua te korenga o tētahi whakaū urunga e whakamāramatia he whakaaro kua wātea te ara mō ngā wehenga hou.
I a koe e haere ana, ko ngā mahi māmā ko: tirohia ngā puna pono o te rohe, kia ngāwari ki te whakarite i ngā wāhi, me te whakarongo ki ngā aratohu haumaru ā-rohe. Ko te whakatuwheratanga anō o te ara iahiko me ahu mai i ngā āhuatanga kua manatokohia, kaua i runga i te whakaaro ko ngā āhuatanga waipuke kino rawa atu i ngā maunga o runga i te ara iahiko katoa.
