Short EBC Kalapatthar Trek - 11 Days

Flying to Tenjing Hillary airport to Lukla is always dependent on the weather. This airport is famous as world’s dangerous airport. It might be interesting to the reason that it is, due to its beautiful landscape and the serene Mountain View.
Today, we will take early morning flight to Lukla. Flight to Lukla is 22 minutes on the side of beautiful mountains in a small plane. Once you get near to Lukla airport you can see Everest in front of the cockpit. If you have choice, try to be in the left side of the small plane to Lukla.
On arrival at Lukla, we will trek 3 hours, mostly downhill to get to a village on the side of river called Phakding.

After breakfast at Namche, we will trek uphill for 30 minutes and continue the flat trail toward our lunch place. After having lunch at the river side with nature, we need to trek uphill to get to Tengboche monastery. Tengboche monastery is one of the oldest and biggest monasteries of Everest region.
At Tengboche view of Kangtega and its glacier is really close. Everest and stunning mt Amadablam is near from Tengboche. At this spiritual place of Tengboche monastery, at the evening we will attend evening prayer.

Trekking from Tengboche after sunrise on the top of Everest is a good start. At the beginning the trail descends a little bit and once it reach imja river trekking trail to Pangboche is uphill walk. At Somare we will have our lunch and start hiking on the completely different landscape of EBC trekking trail.
Trail after lunch at Somare might be windy so be prepared with wind stoppers. But make your camera ready for the magnificent landscape of Everest. Here, no tree line starts and we get really close to Mt Amadablam. But sadly, Everest will disappear from our sight.
Dingboche village is another acclimatization place. This village being above 4000 meters is considered a must acclimatize destination of EBC trekking trail.

Trekking to EBC is not hard, but underestimating the nature and forgetting how high you are climbing a day, might hurt you and success might turn into failure. So take a break at this point.
For acclimatization, we hike uphill to Nangkarsang peak which is 5081 meters above the sea level. But trekking to 500 meters above the Dingboche will help in acclimatization. Hike up, rest for a while and trek down before it is hard, it will help to acclimatize and be strong for the rest of the trip to EBC.
View from today’s hike is the chola pass trail, chola lake, Mt Makalu (5th highest mountain of the world), mt Amadablam, mt Lobuche and many other peaks and studding valley view.

Today the hike is flat for the entire day except 2 hour uphill for Thukla pass. On the top of Thukla pass, the view of Pheriche valley and the surrounding mountain is admiring. At the top of Thukla pass there are memorials of 100s of people who died in Everest. You can find the memorials of Scott fitcher, Rob hall, Babu chhiri Sherpa and many other mountaineers.
After getting to the top of this pass, walk to Lobuche is pretty flat. The view on the other side of Lobuche is stunning. Lobuche has world’s highest bakery, visit the small bakery at 5000mteres above the sea level.

This a long day in high altitude, so we will walk steady and slow. In the morning, at Lobuche we start our trek to Everest base camp early in the morning. Mostly, before the sunrise or exactly with sunrise; this depends on the weather condition; trekking guides are allowed to decide the best.
Trekking along the no tree line zone above 5000 meters above the sea level is admiring. Everyone will be happy and a slight headache is normal at this altitude. Along the entire route, we will walk by the glacier, on top of boulders of glacier stones and very close to the mountains.
After checking in the hotel at Gorakshep, we will resume our hike t Everest base camp. Gorakshep is a lunch spot and our overnight camp for the day. Trekkers with cough and sufferings will be seen as a normal, along the trail from Gorakshep to Everest base camp.

Trekking to EBC is always the matter of getting to the base camp of highest mountain of the world. So most of the people trekking to EBC skip Kalapatthar, but I do not recommend skipping it. Kalapatthar
From Gorakshep we will leave around 9am in the morning and try to get as lower as we can, but Pheriche is the commonly chosen camp by most of the trekkers. Walk is downhill for most of the time and it gets windy after Thukla pass all the way to Pheriche village, so getting ready with wind stoppers is a good idea for today. As today is the first day of downhill walk, if you have knee problem, use your Knee caps and let your guide know if any assistance needed. Scenery of river valley seen from Thukla pass and view of Pheriche village from the corner of the river valley is magnificent.

Today the trekking trail is mixed up of balanced uphill and downhill. That is why Kyangjuma is the best place to stop before pushing yourself to Lukla on your last day.
Pangboche to Kyangjuma is a short day hike, but this is the best place to farewell Everest Himalaya range. We suggest you to be in this place for the last night at the front of Everest range. This destination will also help you to stable your energy after walking days.
Kyangjuma has stunning View of Amadablam and is a best place to rest your legs.

Long walk to conclude our EBC trek, trek to Lukla is another stable last day in the EBC trek itinerary. Along the trail all the flash back of first and second day of Everest base camp trekking will be flooded.
On arrival at Lukla there are series of happiness waiting you. Celebrate your success with your EBC trek support team. This might be the last night with your supporters – trekking guide, porters etc…

In the morning, take a short flight from Lukla to Kathmandu. Flight is arranged by Nepalgram, our ground support team will assist you to get in & out of the airport.
Enjoy the view from the window of small plane. The rip with Nepalgram ends here. Towards the end of trip if you are looking for any kind of trip extensions program, we have plenty. Feel free to ask any help or package trips.