From Kathmandu :21 Days Everest (Base Camp)Three Passes Trek

The Everest Three Passes is a challenging trekking circuit in the Everest region of Nepal. It's renowned for its stunning mountain vistas, remote high-altitude landscapes, and the need to cross three high mountain passes. Here's a short description of each pass: Kongma La Pass (5,535 meters / 18,159 feet): The trek often begins in Lukla and takes you through the bustling Sherpa town of Namche Bazaar. Kongma La is the first pass you encounter, and it's a strenuous ascent with breathtaking panoramic views of Ama Dablam and other peaks. It's a gateway to the remote and pristine Imja Valley. Cho La Pass (5,420 meters / 17,782 feet): After descending from Kongma La, you'll venture deeper into the Everest region, reaching Gokyo Valley. Cho La is a challenging pass, often requiring the use of crampons and ropes, especially in winter. It links Gokyo Valley to the Everest Base Camp region, offering stunning views of Gokyo Ri and Ngozumpa Glacier. Renjo La Pass (5,360 meters / 17,585 feet): Following the trail from Gokyo, you'll make your way to Renjo La. This pass provides breathtaking views of Everest, Lhotse, and the turquoise Gokyo Lakes. Descending from Renjo La, you'll head towards Thame, a picturesque Sherpa village, and then rejoin the main Everest Base Camp trekking route. The Everest Three Passes trek is not for the faint-hearted, as it involves challenging terrain, high altitudes, and unpredictable weather conditions. Proper acclimatization, physical fitness, and experience in high-altitude trekking are essential. However, the rewards are immense, as you get to explore some of the most beautiful and remote parts of the Everest region while enjoying unparalleled mountain scenery. ITINERARY Day 1: Arrival Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Kathmandu and Transfer to Hotel. Upon arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), our waiting assistance team will greet you and transfer to your designated hotel per as corresponded on email. Day 2: Preparation for Trek and Permit Paper Work Day. Today is day of preparation for the trek and permit organize, more than this it is an ideal acclimatization day before heading such venture journey. Our professional Guide will make sure your trekking gears and give further advice in need to add. Meanwhile, we will give short brief about trekking plan and next day details (at what time you need to departure from the hotel, breakfast, transport, etc.). You are advised to store extra gears either your hotel or in our office. Kindly, ensure your insurance details and have a copy of your travel medical insurance policy with you and provide to us a copy. As after few hours engage for preparation, rest of the day we will visit some World Heritage Sites by car with tour guide. Day 3: Fly from Kathmandu or Manthali to Lukla (2,800m) – 25 to 30 minutes, trek to Phakding (2,640m) -2 to 3 hours Our Guide will come to your hotel early in the morning fly Kathmandu to Lukla (25 to 30 minutes) according to flight schedule. Then, drive 15 to 20 minutes by cab/Taxi to the domestic airport. After exciting scenic flight, we arrived at Lukla, where will meet our other porters and hike to the Phakding up above the Chaurikharka Village and make a descent towards the Ghat (2,530m) via Chheplung Village. The trail goes along the bank of the Dudhkoshi River through the Sherpa settlement who are following Nigmapa Buddhism sect, attractively painted in the boulder by sacred Buddhist Mantra. After 2 to 3 hours walk from Lukla we will get in Phakding (2,640m). The remaining of the day, you may hike around the village and staying overnight at tea house. Day 4: Phakding to Namche Bazaar (3,430m) -5 to 6 hours After end series of the tea house, we crossed the first bridge at Dudh Koshi River, and the trail goes along the left side of Dodh Koshi River banks and arrives in Tok Tok and gets in Benkar after crossing the beautiful waterfall. You have wonderful views of Mt. Thamserku Peak (6,608m) from here. We follow the trail up wards to the river bank to the Chhamuwa Village, where people are engaging in cultivation work nearby settlement. Then the trail ascends to the Monjo Village (2,835m) and walk further to the gate of Sagarmatha National Park (1,148 sq km, established in 1976), we need to check in our permits here. Then the trail descends to the river bank and gets in Jorsale (2,830m) again cross the bridge, as this is last tea houses before Namche, it would be batter to take lunch before ascending to Namche Bazaar. Another 45 minutes walk through the forest we will get confluence; hanging bridge very high above the water surface, as fifth bridge. Then, the trail winding through the National Park forest some time bestows mountain view including Mt. Everest and amazing landscape. After 2 hours walk will get in the street of Namche Bazaar. Stay overnight in Sherpa Heritage at Namche Bazaar with heavenly atmosphere. Day 5: Acclimatization in Namche Bazaar and visit Khumjung Village (3,790m) & Everest View Hotel (3,880m) -2 to 3 hours. This is rest and acclimatization day before heading venture passes. We begin our day hike to the Everest View Hotel up above the Namche Bazaar crest of the hill to the Syangboche Airport, Panorama View Hotel. This is one of the best view points for the breathtaking mountains view including Mt. Everest, Nupste, Ama Dablam, Kangtegha, Thamserku, Kusum Khangru, Kwangde, and Khumbi Yu La etc. Then, we are following the descending trail through the alpine forest to the beautiful Sherpa Settlement Khumjung Village, where we visit the Hillary School, an ancient Monastery with a Yeti skull, and Khunde Hospital as tourist attractions site, and then return back to Namche Bazaar via Yak farm. Except the visit Khumjung Village, you may visit the mountaineering museum; visit the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) and Sagarmath National Park office for further information about the locality. Otherwise you just relex at hotel and wondering arround the town. Stay overnight at Lodge. Day 6: Namche Bazaar to Tengboche (3,867m) -5 to 6 hours After good acclimation day at Namche, today we are heading to Tengbuche (3,867m). At the begging of day, we ascend top of the settlement nearby museum, then the trail goes pleasantly high above the Dudhkoshi River through the forest often sight of magnificent mountains until Kenjoma, and walk further to the Sansa with Rhododendron forest, where the trail coming from Khumjung, Gokyo and Tengboche. Then the trail drops towards Phunki Thanga (3,250m) nearby river Bank. As this is last tea house before Tengbioche, batter to have lunch before climb to Tengboche. It takes about 2 hours to get in Tengboiche, through forests often bestow view of landscape and mountain scenery. Tengboche is situated top on the ridge and elevation of 3,867 meters. Tengboche is most popular for the sacred Monastery and panoramic mountains view. Except top of the world “Mt. Everest”, other mountains such as Kwangde, Tawachee, Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse Ama Dablam, Kantega, Thamserku, etc. are can be seen amazingly. Stay overnight in Tengboche. Day 7: Tyangboche to Dingboche (4,410m) -5 to 6 hours You may participate on praying ceremony in the monastery before breakfast. Then the trail descends through the pine and Rhododendron tree with charming moss-festooned forest to Deboche (3,820m), and continues the pleasant walk to the small settlement Milingo above the Imja Khola. The trail ascending after crosses the bridge, from where you have wonderful towering view of Ama Dablam a head then get in Panboche Village. Walk upward to the Imja Valley to the Somare (4,010m) and Orsho (4,190m) about 25 minutes walk from Pangboche. This is best place to having lunch enjoying with wonderful mountains view. We continue to walk to the Dingbuche taking lower trail at Warsa, ascending to the crest of the hill after cross the Lobuche River, where colorful Buddhist prayer flag flirting on the heap of stone, it is the gate of the Dingboche Village (4,410m). In 15 minutes pleasant walk, we will check in the teahouse for overnight staying. Day 8: Acclimatization and Explore day at Dingboche, climb Nangkartshang Peak (5,615m) – 2 hours. This is second rest day for acclimatization before heading to high passes. After having breakfast, we ascend to the Nangkartshang Peak (5,615m) located the corner of the Dingboche Village, for the amazing view including the fourth highest mountain in the World Mt. Lhoste (8,516 m), fifth highest mountain Mt. Makalu 8,481 meters, Amadablam, Thamserku, Tabuche, etc. and beautiful Imja Valley view and birds eyes view of Dingboche Village. In two hours steady ascend, you will submit the Nangkartshang Peak. After taking some pictures, we are heading back to Dingboche for the night stay. Day 9: Dingboche to Chukkung (4,730m) – 2 to 2 ½ Hours Dingboche to Chhukung is only 2 to 2 ½ hours short walk but relatively feeling hard due to less oxygen in such elevation. This short walk will help to your body get used to in such a high elevation. You have option either rest in the tea house or ascending to the Chhukung Ri (5,546m) for 360 degree mountain view or you may visiting Island peak base camp also. Chhukung Ri offers tremendous mountain scenery of Lhotse (8,501m), Makalu (8,463m), Nuptse (7879m), and Imja Tse/Island peak (6,189m), Barunche (7,220m), Amadablam (6,814m),Thamserku (6,608m), Kawangde, etc. and Imza Lake, Glacier which we will see in next day while cross the Kongma La Pass (5,535m) also. This evening, we need to well prepare (fill up all your water bottle, buy some energy bars, head torch, warm clothes) for our first high pass, the Kongma La Pass at 5,535 meters. Day 10: Chhuking to Lobuche (4,930m) via Kongma La (5,535m) – 7 to 8 Hours After a very early morning breakfast with pack lunch, the rocky small trail leads you ascent up to Kongma La (5,535m). You will probably find this passes a bit harder than previous days trekking, due to ascend altos in high elevation. We head down directly west out of Chukhung on a small, rocky trail and contour around many hillsides, usually not very steep, until we reach the Pokalden Base Camp. After a few other steeper hills, we will reach another Base Camp for Pokalden and a clear blue lake which sits just below the pass. The trail still leads us for another half hour with great view but impossibly built trails into the cliff-side. After few hours later, we have reached the Kongma La, our highest pass at 5,546 meters. It takes about 3 to 4 hours to get in top of the Pass, with breathtaking mountains view and Glacier Lake, glacier. Then the trail descends steeply and gets in Lobuche crossing Khumbu Glacier in another 3 to 4 hours. Stay overnight here Day 11: Lobuche to Gorakshep (5,140m) - 3 hours & Everest Base Camp (5,360m) -2 to 3 hours Today, the trail goes to continue gentle and sometime steep climb nearby the Khumbu Glacier. Mostly, we walk through the unstable loose rock and windy atmosphere but bestow wonderful views of Mt. Pumori (7,165m), Lingtren (6,749m), Khumbutse (6,665m), Nuptse (7,861m) etc. It is 3 to 4 hours much ups and down walk to get in Gorak Shep (5,140m), the tea house highest place in the world. After having lunch and recharge energy with short rest, we are heading to Me. Everest Base Camp to see Khumbu Icefall, Base Camp itself for 2 to 3 hours walk along the Glacier Ridge and often walk on the glacier. Some time the path can be misleading so we suggest following our expert Guide since every year the trail will be changing due to the glacier movement. The hike to the Everest Base Camp is quite strenuous due to the thin air in the high altitude and passes over rocky dunes, moraine and streams, till you reach the EBC. During the spring season, the Base Camp will occupy by expedition crews, and you may feel like a city atmosphere at Base Camp. It takes 2-3 hrs to get back to Gorak Shep tea house after a grand time here, we stay overnight at a lodge. Day 12: Gorakshep to Kalapathar (5,550m) -2 hours & Stroll back to Dzongla (4,830m) -4 to 5 hours To catch the sunrise view from the top of the Kalapatthar, we begin the hike very early in the morning with having a cup of hot tea or some soup. The trail ascends along the north ridge of Gorek Shep, steep up for 20 minutes hike to the plateau, where the Nepalese Government had held a cabinet meeting on December 4, 2009, to draw attention of climate change to the world. It is 1 ½ to 2 hours steeply ascend to get in Kalapathar (5,550m), where a banquet of peaks waits for you there for 360 degree view. After exhausted climbing on the small rocky peak “Kalapattar”, you are rewarded joyful movement ever in your life. The Mt. Pumari (7,145m) can see just in front of you and Mt. Everest Base Camp can be seen down below on the moraine of Khumbu Glacier and Khumbu icefall on the foot of the gigantic mountains. The view from Kalapatthar including top of the world “Mt. Everest (8,848m), Lingtren (6,695m), Khumbutse (6,623m), Changtse (7,550m), Nupse (7879m), etc. are astonishing. After spending some time on the Kalapatthar Summit, we will descend to the Gorakshep and continue the walk down to the Dzongla (4,830m) via Lobuche for 4 to 5 hours. Enjoy with the Mother Nature scenery and stay overnight in the hotel. Day 13: Dzongla to Tangnank (4,700m) via Chola La (5,420m) -6 to 7 hours The views today are magnificent even though we have left Everest behind us. However, we can still glimpse Mt. Cho Oyu (8,153m), the sixth highest mountain in the world. The trail goes up to Cho La Pass, and the trek is hard work indeed, involving a steep scramble up rock boulders and then a walk across the gently ascending, snow-covered glacier on the pass. Even though, the views of the route ahead of the glacier itself are breathtaking you might feel exhausted. For the first part of the descent, there are discernible paths that zigzag down the mountainside - slippery in snowy rocky trail. After this we descend through the steep boulder scattered slopes to the Gokyo Valley; turquoise lakes and great glaciers. Finally, we climb up a gentle slope to the top. From here it’s all downhill following a narrow river valley all the way to its base where we stay overnight at Tangnak (4,700m), a small Sherpa settlement beneath huge rock. Day 14: Thangnak to Gokyo (4,790m) -2 to 3 hours. After late breakfast the trail leads us through the Nagjumpa Glacier (biggest glacier of the Nepal Himalayas) and ascends a trail which catches the main route of Gokyo. Here there are beautiful lakes with Siberian ducks swimming across the mirror-calm surface. In 2 to 3 hours magic walk from Thangnak you will get in settlement in front of the third Lake (Dudh Pokharai) at Gokyo. The rest of the day you can relax in the hotel or climb up to Gokyo Peak (5,350m) to explore. This trek is a once in a lifetime opportunity to enjoy such a beautiful isolated Himalayan scenes by exploring around. Stay overnight here. Day 15: Rest Day in Gokyo (4790m)/ Explore day in Gokyo Peak (5,360m) -2 hours or Fifth Lakes/ Ngozumpa Tsho (4,990m) – 2 to 3 hours This is rest and explores day in the wonderful Gokyo Valley. Early in the morning, we will ascend through the steep trail about 2 hours to get in Gokyo Ri (5,360m). Compare to Kalapatthar it is lower, even although you find much more difficult to climb this peak due to its steady. From the top of the Gokyo Ri, you will see breathtaking view of a sunrise on the top of the mountain changing into golden color. The view of the four highest mountains in the world including top of the world Mt. Everest (8,848m), Cho-Oyu (8,153m), Lhotse (8,516m) and Makalu 8,463m and many more can be seen from the summit. Likewise, you can see the magnificent view of Cho-Yu base camp north of the Ngozumpa Glacier; one of the biggest glaciers in the world and Gokyo Valley with turquoise color Gokyo Lake, teahouse, nearby edge of the Ngozumpa Glacier, gigantic snow capped mountains. This will be an unforgettable memory and enjoy around the top of the Gokyo Ri. We have a great memory and stroll back an hour to Gokyo for the rest and relax all the day or visit fifth lakes and nearby Cho-Yu base camp. We are staying overnight at Tea House. Day 16: Gokyo to Marulung (4,150m) via Renjo La (5,360m) – 7 to 8 hours Today is big day of trekking over the Renjo La (5,360m). You leave your camp following an early breakfast and climb into a wide curie making for the ridge line ahead of you. This is our last challenging pass, when you come over the pass you are greeted with an incredible panorama looking out over the turquoise lakes at Gokyo and across the Mt. Everest. You descend over rough glacial slabs and moraine to you campsite in a secluded location on the western shore of Gokyo. Probably, we need ropes to descend into the remote northern valley about 100 meters down during Nov-Feb. There is a chance to meet Tibetan Traders descending from the Nangpa La pass that leads through the Himalayan from Tibet with their caravans of woolly yaks laden with goods. Stay at Tea house at Marlung. Day 17: Marulung to Thame (3,800m) – 4 to 5 hours We are heading down into Nangpa Valley. Until 2005 this valley was off limits to trekkers because it was a main access route to the pass linking Nepal and Tibet. For decades, many Tibetan traders have traveled this route, bringing a variety of Chinese goods on the backs of their yaks to sell in Namche Bazaar. The Thame monastery which is attached with the rock famous ancient monetary was built in the fourteenth century. Thame is the home of most of the mountain heroes, where the first Everest submitter Mr. Tenzing Norgay Sherpa was born in the valley, who had concurred top of the world on 29 May 1953 with Edmund Hillary citizen of New Zealand. We may have great chance to talk with Everest Hero, Mr. Appa Sherpa, about his experience of climbing Everest twenty-one times. We are staying at tea house for overnight. Day 18: Thame to Manjo (2,835m) -5 to 6 hours At Thame, you will meet other trekkers also, who are coming from traverses most adventure pass Tashi Laptsa from Rolwaling, some trekkers begun this trek reverse way too. After breakfast the treks lead us downward along the Bhote Koshi River Bank gradual down and kind of flat turn south down the valley towards Namche Bazaar through rhododendron and juniper forest with isolated Sherpa villages; Thamte, Mende, Thamo, Phurte. Again we descend down retrace the same trail to the Manjo about one and half-hour walk. The rest of day we are enjoying with tremendous atmosphere in Manjo. Day 19: Manjo to Lukla (2,800m) -4 to 5 hours After a long walk we'll have long last trek back to Lukla today. We descend along the Dudh Koshi River Bank crossing several bridges. After one and half-hours sine walk from Monju we get in Phakding Village, where we stopped for overnight last time. The walk reminds us, walked through the lush green scenery, sound of the river ranging, rock painting by Buddhist Mantra, precious Mane while by water, Chorten and colorful Buddhist prayer flag around us. The hospitality of Sherpa people, their tradition and live hood are incredible memory of the trek. The mountain scenery and local Sherpa villages can be seen until Lukla. Rest of the time you may wander around the bazaar and our guide will reconfirm your flight ticket for next morning. If you are at in Lukla at Thursday, you have great chance to see local weekly markets, selling goods in cash or Barter system. As this is end of the trek, enjoy the dinner with Guide and porters and celebrate before heading back to stay overnight at the hotel. Day 20: Fly back to Kathmandu – 25 to 30 minutes Lukla to Kathmandu flight is operated mostly in the morning, due to the weather concern (windy or poor visibility by cloudily) in the afternoon. Sometime the flight schedule can be delayed by an hour to more the hour and might be cancelled due to not favorable weather at Luka and other reason beyond our control. That’s why we always request to you put at the list an additional day for the contingency, this will helps to catch your further schedule. Anyway, we will fly back to Kathmandu according to our time and transfer to the hotel. The rest of the day you may have time to relax after long adventure journey and catch your breath. We are staying overnight at the hotel. Day 21: Drive to the airport for your Home destination. Today is end of the trekking; you may busy for the last time shopping for the family souvenir. We will hand over Trekking Permits, TIMS Card and Trip Application Cards to you for memory of Nepal trip. Our assistance will come to your hotel drop to the airport according to your flight schedule. Normally, you are advice to check in airport 2 to 3 hours before then your flight. Fly to your onwards destination, taking with you the memory of a life time experience.