Everest & Solukhumbu · Above 3,000 m, with time to adjust
High altitude in Everest & Solukhumbu
Everest, Annapurna Base Camp, Upper Mustang, Gokyo, Manaslu and Kanchenjunga. Routes built on the 'climb high, sleep low' rule, with rest days at Namche, Manang and Dingboche-type stops, because acclimatisation decides how the trip feels.
Trips
Everest & Solukhumbumax 5,545 mGokyo Lakes, Cho La and Everest Base Camp
A loop that sees the Khumbu from two valleys. You walk up to the turquoise Gokyo lakes and climb Gokyo Ri, cross …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 5,545 mEverest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return
Walk up to Everest Base Camp the proper way, with the same acclimatisation as the classic trek, then fly back to Kathmandu …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 5,545 mEverest Base Camp Trek
The classic walk from Lukla to the foot of the Khumbu Icefall and up Kala Patthar for sunrise on Everest. Fourteen nights …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 5,550 mEverest Three Passes Trek
The full circuit of the Khumbu: three passes above 5,300 m, Kongma La, Cho La and Renjo La, linking the Imja, Khumbu, …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 5,360 mGokyo Lakes and Renjo La Trek
A quieter Everest trek that trades base camp for lakes. You walk up the Gokyo valley to the turquoise lakes beside the …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 6,189 mIsland Peak Climb with Everest Base Camp
Your first Himalayan summit. Seventeen nights that use the Everest Base Camp trek and Kala Patthar to acclimatise, then move into the …
Places
Everest & Solukhumbu4,730 mChhukung
Under Lhotse's south face, the road end for Island Peak
Everest & Solukhumbu4,410 mDingboche
Walled barley fields at 4,410 m and the big acclimatisation stop
Everest & Solukhumbu5,364 mEverest Base Camp
A tent city on moving ice at 5,364 m, with Kala Patthar above
Everest & Solukhumbu4,790 mGokyo
Turquoise lakes, a Ramsar site and four 8,000 m peaks from Gokyo Ri
Everest & Solukhumbu3,790 mKhumjung
Hillary's first school and a yeti scalp under sacred Khumbila
Everest & Solukhumbu2,860 mLukla
The sloping airstrip where nearly every Everest walk begins
Everest & Solukhumbu3,440 mNamche Bazaar
Khumbu's trading town, built in a bowl at 3,440 m
Everest & Solukhumbu3,985 mPangboche
Khumbu's oldest gompa and the story of the stolen yeti hand
Everest & Solukhumbu3,800 mThame
Tenzing Norgay's village on the old salt road to Tibet
Experiences
TrekkingClimb Chhukung Ri at dawn
Leave Chhukung before dawn for the summit of Chhukung Ri, about 5,550 m, a steep trekking peak with a close-up …
AdventureWalk to Island Peak base camp
Follow the moraine east from Chhukung to Island Peak base camp at about 5,000 m, beneath the 6,165 m peak …
Rivers and lakesSee Imja Tsho, the lake they lowered
Walk from Chhukung to a moraine viewpoint over Imja Tsho, a glacial lake that grew from meltwater ponds in the …
AdventureCross the Kongma La to Lobuche
The highest of the Three Passes, the Kongma La at about 5,535 m, links Chhukung with Lobuche in one long, …
TrekkingClimb Nangkartshang on the rest day
On the acclimatisation day, climb the ridge above Dingboche to a viewpoint at about 5,080 m, gaining roughly 650 m, …
HeritageWalk the walled fields of Dingboche
A gentle evening walk between Dingboche's stone-walled fields of barley and potato, with Ama Dablam's north face glowing above. Learn …
Slow daysAltitude talk at the Pheriche aid post
Walk over the ridge from Dingboche to Pheriche, where the Himalayan Rescue Association has run an aid post since 1973, …
FoodDal bhat and lodge-stove evenings
Spend the evening around the yak-dung stove of a Dingboche lodge, eating dal bhat with refills alongside guides and porters, …
Stays
mountain lodge2,860 mYeti Mountain Home Lukla
A comfortable lodge a short walk from the Lukla airstrip, run by the Yeti Mountain Home group (now marketed as …
mountain lodge3,440 mYeti Mountain Home Namche
A lodge in Namche Bazaar at about 3,440 m with attached bathrooms and a warm dining room, run by the …
mountain lodge3,790 mHotel Everest View
A Japanese-built hotel on the ridge above Syangboche at about 3,880 m, between Namche and Khumjung, with a terrace that …
mountain lodge3,985 mEverest Summit Lodge Pangboche
A small lodge just off the main Everest trail at Pangboche, about 3,985 m, with around ten rooms with attached …