Everest & Solukhumbu · Teahouse to teahouse, village to pass
Treks and trails in Everest & Solukhumbu
Nepal's trails were roads long before they were treks: salt, rice and wool moved on them for centuries. We plan teahouse treks from three-day ridge walks to three-week circuits, with licensed guides, honest grading and rest days placed where the altitude asks for them.
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 4,570 mEverest Comfort Lodge Trek
The Khumbu in comfort. Eleven nights pairing Dwarika's in Kathmandu with the best lodges on the trail: Yeti Mountain Home in Namche …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 3,880 mEverest Family Trek to Namche
A gentle Everest trek for families with children from about eight. Eight nights, short days of two to five hours, three 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 3,880 mEverest View Trek: Namche and Khumjung
A short Everest trek for people with one week. You fly to Lukla, walk to Namche Bazaar, explore the Sherpa villages of …
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 …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 4,065 mPikey Peak and Junbesi Trek in Solu
A short, quiet trek in Solu, the lower half of Solukhumbu. Drive to Phaplu, walk to the Sherpa village of Junbesi and …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 3,867 mSolu to Khumbu Walk-in: Phaplu to Tengboche
Walk into the Everest region the way expeditions did before the Lukla airstrip. Sixteen nights from Phaplu across the ridges of Solu, …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 3,867 mTengboche Mani Rimdu Festival Trek
Time your Everest trek to the Mani Rimdu festival at Tengboche Monastery, held each October or November by the Tibetan calendar. Eleven …
Everest & Solukhumbumax 3,970 mThame and Sherpa Heritage Trek
A trek through the Sherpa villages that raised generations of Everest climbers. Ten nights linking Namche Bazaar, Thame in the Bhote Koshi …
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 & Solukhumbu2,675 mJunbesi
Solu's monastery village on the old walking road to Everest
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 & Solukhumbu2,413 mPhaplu
Solu's airstrip town below cliff-top Chiwong Gompa
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 …