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Everest Base Camp Trek

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The trek to Everest base camp is a comprehensive and colourful journey through Nepal’s most famous valley, the Khumbu, the home of Everest (8848m) and Lhotse (8501m).

The trail offers glimpses of Everest and Lhotse as well as other 8000m giants, Cho Oyu (8201m), Makalu (8463m) and Shisapangma (8013m).

Sherpa People – The inhabitants of Khumbu Region

Inhabiting this harsh land are the Sherpa people, an ethnic group famous for their hardiness, spirit and mountaineering prowess.

This trek journeys into the heartland of the Sherpa people providing an insight into their rich Buddhist culture and traditional way of life.

Sir Edmund Hillary grew a passion for Sherpas from his early mountaineering years and following Everest, spent his remaining years dedicated to fundraising and bringing development to the region.

Everest Base Camp Trek Season

Spring also brings climbers from around the globe with Everest ambitions. You’ll share the trail with yaks and porters carrying supplies to Everest base camp.

During Spring, the valley is awash with flowering rhododendron trees of various colors and large white magnolia trees. The rolling landscape varies from lush low alpine vegetation to dry high altitude scrub land.

During this season, Himalayan Ascent can offer you accommodation at an Everest Expedition camp.

This unique opportunity gives a chance to mix with excited and anxious climbers, and gives close up views of the infamous Khumbu ice fall. Alternatively in autumn, you can visit Ama dablam base camp or rest an extra day soaking in the views.

Everest Base Camp Trek Route

Our Route begins from the gateway airport town of Lukla at 2840m. Following the Dudh kosi river on the valley floor, the trail first passes through farming villages of mixed Tamang, Rai and Sherpa communities.

We then make a sharp ascent up to Namche, the capital of the Khumbu and the traditional trading centre of Sherpa people.

We take a less traveled road to Phortse, a typical Sherpa farming village and the site of the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation’s Khumbu Climbing School.

Many Sherpa climbers come from Phortse and have been trained at the Khumbu Climbing School.

From here it’s a short trek to Pangboche, the highest permanent Sherpa settlement. We acclimatize in Dingboche first before trekking the last few kilometres of a high altitude trail to Everest base camp.

Kala Patthar – The highest point of Everest Base Camp Trekking

The view of Everest and Lhotse from Kala Pattar, our highest point, is a magnificent reward! The return route passes through Tengboche and the Tengboche monastery. This is the largest monastery in the region and is open to visitors to share prayer time with monks.

Lhotse Expedition

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Lhotse Expedition, for those seeking the ultimate challenge, will summit the main peak of Lhotse, the 4th highest point in the world. Beaten back severely at the first attempt in 1955, Lhotse was conquered for the very first time in 1956 by the Swiss expedition team.

Lhotse (8516m), sitting quietly alongside Everest and connected by the South Col, was previously thought by Sherpas to be a minor peak of Everest, hence its name, Lhotse, meaning “South Peak”. Lhotse however, is by no means a lesser peak or challenge for that matter. In fact, some even consider Lhotse to be more of a climber’s mountain than Everest.

Lhotse expedition initially shares the same route as Everest to Camp 3, passing through the Khumbu Icefall, the Western Cwn, and crossing the Yellow Band. Above the Yellow Band, the route ventures to the right towards rock shelves to Camp 4.

The final summit route to Lhotse climbs steeply through the upper Lhotse Face to a couloir that provides fast access to the summit. From the top of the couloir it’s a short but exposed ridge climb to the summit.

Lhotse expedition has taken away many by the dangerous icy fangs and was not submitted for the entire period from 2014 to 2016 due to series of incidents, but was finally again conquered in May 2017. And though like any other extreme high altitude climb, where dangers are lurking at every height, there is no dearth for enthusiasm, passion and courage of the ultimate alpinists to triumph over the mighty giant of a Lhotse time and again!