Where the clouds end, your story begins.
Everest Base Camp is the trek most people dream about first, and it deserves its reputation. Fifteen days take you from the Lukla airstrip through Sherpa villages, past Tengboche’s monastery and up the Khumbu Glacier to the foot of the world’s highest mountain.
We walk it at the pace altitude asks for, with two full acclimatisation days, a guide who checks your oxygen saturation every evening, and teahouses we know by name.
Tap a day to open it. It is also marked on the map and the altitude chart.
We meet you at Tribhuvan airport. Welcome dinner with your guide in the evening.
Boudhanath Stupa in the morning, gear check and final briefing in the afternoon.
A 35-minute flight over the foothills to Lukla, then an easy descent along the Dudh Koshi.
Across the Hillary suspension bridge and up the long climb to Namche. First glimpse of Everest on a clear day.
Climb high, sleep low: a morning walk up to the Everest View Hotel and back down for the night.
Forest trail with Ama Dablam ahead. Evening puja at the monastery when timing allows.
Past Pangboche into open alpine country, with Lhotse filling the head of the valley.
A climb up Nangkartshang for views of Makalu and Lhotse, then back down to sleep in Dingboche.
Up onto the moraine and past the climbers' memorials at Thukla.
The long day: along the Khumbu Glacier to Base Camp, then back to Gorak Shep for the night.
A dark start for the best view of Everest there is, then a long descent into thicker air.
Down through yak pastures and villages you passed on the way up.
The last full day on the trail and a final teahouse dinner with your crew.
Morning flight back. Free afternoon, farewell dinner in the evening.
Transfer to the airport.
Numbered pins are where you sleep each night. Orange circles are side climbs and high points. Tap a pin to read that day.
Tap any day on the chart to read it.
The gap between the orange circles and the line is "climb high, sleep low" at work: on acclimatisation days you walk up, then come back down to sleep.
Start from our base packing list, then add what this route needs.
Weather cancels flights most seasons. We rebook you on the first flight out, and can arrange a shared helicopter at extra cost if a flight is badly delayed. Adding a spare day at the end of your trip is the simplest protection.
It is long more than technical: 5 to 8 hours of walking most days on good trails, at altitude. If you can hike all day on a weekend and do it again the next morning, you can train for this.
Yes. Our Everest Base Camp via Phaplu route walks in from the Solu foothills and adds four days.
Gokyo Lakes, Ama Dablam Base Camp and Pikey Peak all see Everest with far fewer people on the trail.
Days beneath the mountain on our crest, up a quieter side trail from Pangboche.
Walk in through the Solu foothills and skip the Lukla flight.
Turquoise lakes, Gokyo Ri, and Everest seen from the Renjo La.
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