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…
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Mesmerizing Dingboche, Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal
This is a picture from my recently completed Everest Base Camp Trek! I went to sleep in a brown valley and I woke up in a white one. But it was a very light snowfall and it didn’t affect the trek in any way. The place is called Dingboche (4360 meters, 14304 feet) and it…
The Lukla Kathmandu Flight, Nepal
What do you do when you have trekked to Everest Base Camp and have finished writing about it? You get Low altitude sickness! And you want to throw tantrums. But on the brighter side I can still write about my Lukla-Kathmandu Flight. The Tenzing-Hillary Airport is probably one of the scariest in the world. This…
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 9, Gorek Shep to Kala Pathar, Descending to Pheriche
As I said in the previous post, I was at 3.14 am waiting for Deepak to start our trek from Gorek Shep (5164 meters, 16942 feet) to Kala Pathar (5545 meters, 18,192 feet). Deepak came out in less than a minute and we started our climb in torch light. I could see only a few…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 8. Lobuje to Gorek Shep, Gorek Shep to EBC and Back
At breakfast at Lobuje we were comparing notes and it looked like I was the only person who could sleep decently, my head ache was gone by now and I was really thankful for that. Today after all was the day when we were headed to Gorek Shep (5164 meters, 16942 feet) and the Everest…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 7, Dingboche to Lobuje
As I said in the last post, we woke up to a light snow at Dingboche and I was wondering if this would be our day of bad weather on the trek. We started as usual around 7.30 am for Lobuje (4930 meters, 16174 feet). I had oats with milk for breakfast, I had arrived…
Everest Base Camp Trek- Day 5, Tengboche to Dingboche, Day 6, Rest and Acclimatization at Dingboche
I was trying to take heart from Pankaj’s comment that Namche and Tengboche were the worst climbs and it could be a bit easier to go to Dingboche (4360 meters, 14304 feet). When I asked Deepak he also agreed that today’s climb would not be comparable to Namche or Tengboche. Deepak had never give me…
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…