Sleeping bag recommendation

not sure if anyone stocks sleeping bags with that rating in nz this is minus 15 for men which means the comfort temp for women is higher minus 8 if you wear a down jacket and insulated pants you'll get a few more degrees out of it, otherwise you might need to shop overseas for that sort of bag gearbuyer.com and use a mail forwarding company like myus.com to ship it as some brands wont ship outside the US. http://www.bivouac.co.nz/gear/camping-and-tramping/sleeping-bags/exped-lite-900-down-sleeping-bag.html http://www.exped.com/exped/web/exped_homepage_int.nsf/b43popup1/EAE12E3529526BA8C12576DD00283F16?Opendocument

Bloody L. -25 is cold. I'd always assumed Himalayas and Andes would be roughly equivalent at a given altitude given the same proximity to the equator. I lived at roughly 5000m in the Andes for a couple of years and we just slept under a blanket or two! The Himalayas are clearly a different proposition. Unless they're being provided for you - I'd also look carefully at the sleeping mats you take. For me insulation from the ground at those low temperatures would be at least as important as the sleeping bag. The recommendation from Waynowski of looking at what you can wear inside the bag if it gets that cold would be one I'd be considering. A bag that's good at -25 is likely to be unusably hot at warmer altitudes. Suppose that didn't answer your question - so hope someone else does!

Where you going in Nepal? Wow you are going to have a blast, Nepal is so much fun (been there twice). I bought a sleeping bag in Kathmandu (the city not shop), but I went in June so temperatures were nowhere near that cold. But might be worth looking into, the quality of the bags there arent as good, but I got a pretty awesome bag for just over $100 (7 years ago). I would think they would stock bags that would do the job? Thamel is full of outdoors shops.

nepal is a paradox in what it sells. you can get really good quality gear, second hand that was used once by rich trekers and climbers and dumped, but you have to watch out for forgery name brand products being sold

Check out Trailspace.com it is a US hiking forum that do really good reviews of gear. This is my go to US hiking website, I lived in the US for a couple of years and like to keep up with the hiking scene there (id like to do the PCT or AT trail someday). You would be far more likely to find a useful review on a US site than here as it can get ruddy cold over there in the winter The URL is: http://www.trailspace.com/gear/hike-camp/