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Day 14 – Loboje/Pangboche (12,956 ft.) Heading down now, the going is easier and the pace faster. Descending via Pheriche to Pangboche. Approx. trekking time: 5 to 6 hours. Day 15 – Pangboche/Namche This morning we climb to upper Pangboche, where the oldest monastery of Khumbu is located. We’ll keep on high trail following [...] Day 13 – Gorak Shep/Everest Base Camp (17,500 ft.)/Loboje Today is the culmination of your journey — the day you reach Everest base camp. Soon after departing Gorak Shep, leave the moraines behind and follow the streams of the glacier. Directly before you is the great Khumbu Icefall, a slow tumble of ice boulders [...] Day 12 – Loboje/Kala Patthar (18,192 ft.)/Gorak Shep (16,404 ft.) An early start takes the team along a rough path beside the Khumbu Glacier to the tea shacks at Gorak Shep. From there, climb for approximately two hours, surrounded by a crown of peaks including Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Changtse and Ama Dablam. Stop at [...] Day 11 – Pheriche/Loboje (16,177 ft.) Now we are right up among the high peaks and closing in on our goal: Everest base camp, the setting-off point for all the ascents of the world’s tallest mountain. We take the flat trail through Phulangkarpo Pasteur and up to Dughla, breathing in the views of Tawoche [...] Theoretically, I’m more than halfway through my trek with no base camp in sight. Assuming a yak hasn’t pushed me off a ledge or I haven’t fallen from a suspension bridge or completely passed out from the days and days of trekking, I will have a day of rest. Notice that one of the [...] Day 9 – Tengboche/Pheriche (14,340 ft.) The trail descends down from Tengboche, winding through the rhododendron forest to Deboche and crossing a bridge over the raging Imja Khol River. A gradual climb takes you to the village of Lower Pangoche in the heart of the Khumbu, with spectacular views across to Ama Dablam. This [...] Day 7 – Thame/Khumjung (12,437 ft.) Today’s hike takes the team back down into the valley, via the hillside nunnery of Thamo, then along a high trail that bypasses Namche and drops into Khumjung, one of the most beautiful villages in Khumbu. Hilary’s Himalayan Trust has a school here as well as a medical [...] Day 5 – Namche After two days of hiking, rest for a day in Namche, adjusting to the altitude and soaking up the beauty of the surroundings. The secret of safe acclimatization is to “climb high, sleep low,” so, if you have the energy, you may climb the hill behind Namche to the airstrip [...] Day 4 – Phakding/Namche (11,302 ft.) Set off after breakfast along the bank of the Dudh Kosi (Milk River) as it tumbles down, white with glacial suspension, from the high Gokyo Lakes. Pass through the Ghat Village and cross the river on a suspension bridge. Leaving the villages of Chumao and Monjo behind, [...] Day 3 – Kathmandu/Lukla (9,448 ft.)/Phakding (8,700 ft.) Having gained a firm grounding in the area’s history and geography, leave the city for the trek up into the mighty Himalaya. Board an early-morning Twin Otter flight to Lukla, your trailhead for the expedition ahead. Perhaps the most famous high-altitude airstrip in the world, Lukla [...] |
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