I decided to put all the links to my day by day account of the Everest Base Camp Trek in one post. It is easy to access them from here and easy to point it out to anyone who is interested in reading it all! Many thanks to all of you who read my accounts…
Tag: Namche Bazaar
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 11 Namche Bazaar to Lukla
I had told Deepak the last night that I would not get up early as it hardly made any difference to when we would reach Lukla. Namche Bazaar to Luka was also two days worth of going up which we were descending in one day. But as I went to sleep at 8.00 pm in…
Everest Base Camp trek- Day 10, Pheriche to Namche Bazaar
How difficult could be getting down on a trek? That depends on how your knees behave and mine behave very badly. So even though getting down is not as tiring as going up, it actually becomes painful for me. On my last year’s trek in Uttarakhand, I was almost unable to walk for the last…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 4, Namche Bazaar to Tengboche
For me this was one of the toughest day of trek. Of course the last day of climb was even more strenuous but Namche Bazaar (3440 meters, 11286 feet) to Tengboche (3870 meters, 12696 feet) was also quite killing. I hope I am not giving the impression that this is an incredibly difficult trek. What I write…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 2, Phakding to Namche Bazaar; Day 3, Rest and Acclimatization at Namche
I woke up to my birthday at Phakding (2652 meters, 8700 feet) and I was turning a decade too! But anyway that was a very minor happening on the larger scale of things! In the mountains as I hit the bed by 7.00 pm or so, I wake up bright and fresh. I had an…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 1, Kathmandu-Lukla Flight and Lukla-Phakding Walk
Everest Base Camp trek has been on my radar for long. However I would always let it go thinking it would take too much time, the season will not suit my teaching schedule etc etc. But all this changed when I met Sir Chris Bonington. During his talk he asked if anyone of us had…
And I am Back from the Everest Base Camp Trek
There are so many pictures to choose from the Everest Base Camp trek and so many things to talk about that my head spins. I will start off with this picture below from Namche Bazaar and 10 things from the top of my mind! The header picture is from Kala Patthar. 10. I was so…