Reachable only by air or on foot: STOL flights to Simikot Airport (IMK) from Nepalgunj (via Kathmandu), then helicopter (about 20 minutes) or a 4-5 day walk over the 4,530 m Nara La pass to Hilsa. A motorable road from Hilsa to Simikot is under construction; Simikot was connected to the national road network in July 2025.
Preferred route for the Mount Kailash / Lake Manasarovar pilgrimage since 2015; crosses into Tibet at the Zherwa (Burang-Yari) border crossing at Hilsa. Namkha Rural Municipality is the largest rural municipality in Nepal by area. Wild yaks, once thought regionally extinct in Nepal, were rediscovered in Humla in 2014.
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