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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 1 The Arrival: Everything you need to know about...
This is the tiny airstrip you will land on, basically a cliff face. And, the sun is not up over the mountain yet on the first flight! How to get to Mount Everest Base Camp (Day 1) Choices in starting...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 1: The trek, the Yak, the boots
A hair raising flight over with, it’s straight into the mountains from Lukla! Welcome to the start of the Everest Base Camp trek! Arriving in Lukla is akin to arriving into a trekkers paradise. On the...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 2: First glimpse of Mount Everest
First look at Mount Everest on the Everest Base Camp trek, we won't be seeing that again for a while! (click to enlarge) A view of Mount Everest Today we make an attempt at reaching Namche Bazaar which...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 3: Acclimatization & Shopping in Namche Bazaar
Not quite a Yak, but he’s also not suffering from altitude sickness … Importance of acclimatization when trekking in Nepal We are staying in Namche Bazaar (3,500 meters / 11,482 feet) for two days and...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 4 – Tengboche: water, cheese & mental battles
The hardest thing on the Everest Base Camp trek in winter is the mental effort Trekking survival in Nepal It is the off-peak winter season, Nepal is cold. It’s colder still in the mountains. But, I...
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Everest Base Camp Trek day 5: the very worst day
An invisible mental & physical wall blocks the way … Every trek has a wall I wrote previously about the start of the mental difficulties on a difficult trek. I thought it was over. Instead I have...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 6: Lobuche memorial for the fallen
Tired and battered … this windy monster now awaits! Extra acclimatization or move on to Lobuche? Morning started at 3am. No sleep for me. But, I was feeling a lot better. My headache is only a dull...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 7: Gorak Shep and climbing Kala Patthar...
One final big climb up Kala Patthar to 5643m/18513ft Final stop on the Everest Base Camp Trek There was no rush in leaving Lobuche this morning. It was only a few hours to Gorak Shep, the main lodge...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 8 Part 1: Snowed in at base camp! And, yak love
You don’t ever think about getting snowed in at Everest Base Camp until it actually happens to you … A night at Gorak Shep by Everest Base Camp I slept well considering the altitude. Perhaps the...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 8 part II: Trekking to Base Camp, avalanches &...
There are many famous sign posts around the world, this is one of them … The Trek to Mount Everest Base Camp From cloud covered mountains to blue sky vistas of Kala Patthar and the remaining trail to...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 8 part III: Retreating from the snow and ice
It’s a lot harder than it looks … trekking on snow and ice with bad boots Through snow & ice a rush to Lobuche It’s a very different feeling coming back from a goal than reaching it. The Everest...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 9 part 1: Encounters with Himalayan Tahr in Nepal
Huge Male Himalayan Tahr from Nepal (click photograph to enlarge) Wildlife encounter with the Himalayan Tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) Even in the middle of winter the sun shines brightly in the...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 9 part II: the locals you meet on the trails
A Nepalese Goat herder bring his flock up to snowy pastures This photograph of a man with muzzled goats may be purchased here Trekking to see skiers at Tengboche Monastery? Snow turning to slush...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 10: The best drugs are found in the Himalayan...
Tengbouche Monastery the highest in the world – it’s all down hill from here … well not really Don’t rush a trek to Everest Base Camp I say something like this every time I do a trek. I guess it’s in...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 11: Trekking at night
Red Sunset on the Himalayas Two nights arriving in darkness on the Everest Trail My own oxygen high came with some stupid risks too. Due to my broken boots we could only go slowly. Yet our side trips...
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Everest Base Camp Trek Day 12: fly out from Lukla Airport, the wildest plane...
It is one of the wildest flights you will ever take – Lukla to Kathmandu Lukla Airport and how to fly out It’s a bevy of frenzy even if you arrive at Lukla airport well before the first flight. Usually...
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