Rajesh Thapaliya
41 years, Nepal
4 years ago
Best Ways To Explore Everest Himalaya and Reach the Everest Base Camp
Are you thinking that you need a long holiday to reach the Everest base camp? Yes, you need many days to go to the Everest base camp. But you also can reach the base camp within a couple of hours and explore with the entire region.
perhaps, you have heard the name Mt. Everest. There are very fewer people in the world who are unknown with this name. Mt. Everest- world’s tallest mountain (8848m) is located in the northern Himalayan belt in Mahalangur range. There are thousands of trekkers making their adventure trekking trips each high trekking season and many viewers of this mountain. Only trekking is not the option to reach the base camp and explore with the Everest Himalaya. What are the top ways to explore Everest Himalaya and reach the base camp then?
Here, you can see those ways of exploring the Everest region and reaching the base camp. You might have heard about trekking to the base camp and not about other options. You can reach the base camp within a few hours too with any physical challenge. There are 3 different ways with what you can explore Everest massif and beauty of this region. To reach the base camp, you need to trek a few days or can fly on a helicopter. Let’s check about those ways of exploring this beautiful place now.
Everest Base Camp Trek
The most popular mountain hiking in Nepal is the Everest base camp trek. Lonely planet categorized this trek as the 4th most popular trekking destination in the world. You will surely enjoy Everest base camp trek with scenic massive snow-capped mountains, nature and much more. Everest base camp trek is 12 days journey from Kathmandu to Kathmandu. This trek begins with a short mountain flight which connects with a small mountain town Lukla. You will land at Lukla airport after flying about half an hour and the main trail leads towards Phakding. Passing some traditional Sherpa villages with local architectural buildings, beautiful rivers, waterfalls, suspension bridges, wildlife, vegetation, vantage viewpoints, valleys and much more attractions make your trip amazing and memorable. You could trek with only one national park entry permit a few years back and started to issue Trekkers Information Management System Card by Nepal Tourism Board until 3 years back. Now, you don’t need to issue card from NTB and on the pace of this, you need to issue Rural Municipality entry ticket that you can issue in Lukla. It means you need to have Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality entry ticket and national park entry permit for this trek. It cost 3000 NPR for national park ticket and 2000 NPR for Pasang Lhamu fee to all trekkers except Indian and trekkers from the south Asian countries. It cost 1500 NPR to the Indians and people from the South Asian countries for the national park permit but Pasang Lhamu ticket is equal for all trekkers. You will trek 8 days on the way up to the base camp including altitude practice rest days in Namche and Dingboche. It will take 3 full days trek to trek back to Lukla which you would walk 8 days on the way up. The question can be raised on you that how it is possible 8 days trek to 3 days on the way back? Going upwards, you will walk slowly because of altitude gain. When you will start returning, you will trek downwards which the elevation starts descending and it will be easier to walk. It will be easier to hike to the Everest base camp if you are trained or usual hiker. Though, there are hundreds of trekkers every year who never hiked such a high elevated land and without any training. But some physical training is recommended for this trek.
Everest Base Camp
Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour
Everest base camp helicopter tour is a luxury tour in Nepal. This is the quickest way to reach the Everest base camp. It is also known as the Everest base camp helicopter landing tour because there will be several landings after the helicopter takes off from Kathmandu. You can reach the base camp within a couple of hours after 2 different lands in Lukla and the Everest view hotel. This scenic flight tour offers aerial views of traditional villages, green hills, scenic mountains, and more with a lifetime helicopter flight experience. Don’t forget to take your passport handy which you need at the airport to check-in. You also need to take some change Nepalese rupees for your breakfast in Everest view hotel during the flight. And the most important thing, wear warm clothes because you will land at a high altitude where is cold temperature.
Helicopter tour
Everest Mountain Flight
Everest mountain flight is also known as Everest scenic flight tour. This is one of the cheapest and fastest ways of Exploring Everest and more high mountains. Not only will you see Everest Himalaya from this flight tour. You can explore Kanchenjunga, Makalu, Manaslu, Ganesh Himal, Langtang and Gauri Shankar Himalayan ranges with the Everest mountain flight tour. Several flights are operating this tour from Kathmandu. If the weather would be bad, the flight might be cancelled. The plane for this flight has a single seated sits on both sides and flies through both directions. All the passengers from the plane will be able to see all the scenes. This is not a landing flight tour as the helicopter tour so, you cannot reach the base camp with Everest scenic flight. If you would like to reach the base camp within a few hours, go with Everest base camp helicopter tour. Hopefully, this makes you easy to plan your Everest trip according to your time frame and interest. People might think that only one way of exploring Everest is with a trek and need to have a long holiday. So, it is not compulsory to have a long holiday and ft enough to reach the base camp. Now, people who care for a short visit and never can trek to the mountain also can reach the base camp of the world’s highest mountain.
Everest Himalaya and glacier