Buying and renting trekking gear in Kathmandu

1. Best place to buy or rent gears

Thamel is the main touristic hub in Kathmandu where you can buy different types of tourist shopping items in Thamel. You can get easily buy and rent trekking gear in Thamel, Kathmandu. However, you can get different types of original to fake trekking gear items to buy and hire for trekkers. If you want to buy quality brand gear in Kathmandu you need to go only to the specific brand shop in Thamel if you do always trekking and hiking better to buy if not better to rent those gear items.

You can recognize the geras by its brand, materials, finishing, and zipper styles which are used in the clothes and gear. There are many gears shops in Thamel but Himalaya Gears trekking shop is the best place to buy and rent trekking equipment. Some trekking agencies offer some equipment and refer to our shop to buy and rent gear to their clients. Normally buying and renting gears price may be different in the shops and quality.

Most of the different types of copies of clothes and gear look similar to the original and you can get a better price to buy in Thamel.

2. Where do I buy trekking and climbing gear in Kathmandu?

There are many more trekking gears shop in Thamel mostly gears shop has copies of the gear items. You can buy locally made and international brands of clothes in Thamel. Like North Face, Mountain Hardware, Marmot brands so on only can shop in legitimate stores in Thamel located in Tridevi Marga, area. Likewise, you can also shop for branded gear in Durbarmarg in legitimate shops.

If you want to go for long adventures treks, high climbing better you can buy branded or copies of clothes and good equipment which you can get Thamel only from its branded showroom.

3. Where do I renting trekking and climbing gear in Kathmandu?

You can get renting clothes and equipment in Kathmandu around Thamel. While you have renting geras it’s primarily available in the second hand gears. If you want to rent new gear obviously, you need to pay a bit more cost compared to secondhand hiring. You need to make some deposit while you do rent clothing and gear items and can get a refund of your deposit at the end of your trekking and mountaineering activities.

4. How much does it cost to buy or rent gear?

Normally price depends on the quality of the types of equipment and its different brands. If you need to buy original branded gears which are a minimum of more than 5 times pluses then the normal price is mentioned below. Those renting prices might differ in the duration of the trek, variety of clothes, and gear items.

Thus, below are some basic info on the trekking gear that you need to know either buying or renting gear in Thamel –

SN	Trekking Gears Items	Buying price range is US $	Renting cost range per day
1	Sleeping bags (-5°C to -30°C)	US $ 50 to 200	US $ 1 to 3
2	Down Jacket	US $50 to US $80	US $ 1 to 2
3	Warm fleece set	US $ 20 to US $40
4	Half paint	US $10 to US $15
5	Hiking short	US $10 to US $25
6	Trekking pants	US $15 to US $25
7	T-shirt	US 10 to 25
8	Thermal set	US $15 to US $30 per set
9	Towel	US $ 6 to US $10
10	Windproof gloves	US $10 to US $20 per pair
11	Camping tent	US $80 to US $ 150	US $5 to 10
12	Daypack (20 L to 35L)	US $30 to US $50
13	Backpack (40 L to 65L)	US $50 to US $90	US $2 to 3
14	Trekking Stick	US $10 to US $50 pair	US $ 0.5 to $2
15	Sunglasses	US $5 to US $20
16	Gore-Tex jacket	US $ 20 to US $40
17	Water bottle	US $5 to US $20
18	Sunglasses	US $5 to US $20
19	Trekking boots	US $ 60 to $200	US $3 to $4
20	Warm hat	US $2 to US $5