Three Pass Trek-Everest

One of our representatives will pick you up at the airport and accompany you to the hotel. Depending on your arrival time, we will visit some of the most important places in the capital. In the evening, we will have a meeting at the hotel to brief you on the entire trip.

We leave early from Kathmandu to Manthali, a town 130 km away, from where we will take a flight to Lukla (2850 m). Today’s stage descends gently towards the bottom of the Dudh Kosi valley (“river of milk” in Nepali), where we will spend the night in the town of Phakding. In the afternoon, we will visit the more than 500-year-old monastery.

From today onwards we will be trekking on the Sagarmatha (Everest) National park, the highest National park of the world. The trail passes through various settlements Toktok, Monjo, Jorsalle, and this day we will cross the highest bridge in Larchye Dovan. The first sight of Everest can be seen today from the Tope danda. Namche/Nauche : Also called the Chamonix of Himalaya, with various shops, restaurants and hotels and a

weekend market. Is also considered as the capital of Khumbu Valley.

Today will be an easy hike towards Khumjung passing via Syangboche airstrip, we will have the tea break at the famous Everest view hotel. Then, we descended to Khumjung, one of the most beautiful villages in the Everest region. We can visit the Hillary school and Khunde village.

Today the trail leads to the Bhote koshi valley, one of the major valleys in Khumbu region. Is one of the traditional salt trade routes between Nepal and Tibet Via Nampala pass. We pass by some of the authentic Sherpa villages where we can see the real life of Sherpa people and their culture and traditions. Thame is home to one of the world class record holder climbers like Appa Sherpa. As many tourists do not pass by, we will be able to see some Himalayan Thar and Musk deer. 

Thame: Thame is one of the important settlements in this valley. Thame monastery(gompa) is one of the oldest monasteries in the region.

The Trail ascends slowly towards high elevation passing through various abandoned villages and pasture land for yaks.

Today we hike up to 5000m for the acclimatization and come back to Lungden.

As this is our first pass among the 3 it's going to be a long day but the view from the Renjola is rewarding as we can see 4 8000 m high mountains Everest, Lhotse, Cho-yu, Makalu and several other peaks. As we descended to the Gokyo lake where we spent the night on the bank of pristine Gokyo Lake.

Climbing Gokyo ri in the early morning is an option, a steep climb to Gokyo ri is rewarding. We will start our walk in the midday, we will cross Ngozumpa Glacier (the longest glacier in Nepal) to reach Thagnak (Dragnak).

Our second pass and a bit tough comparing to Renjola pass , after few hours of walk we reach the base of chola it seems quite steep but recently the iron cable were put on the south face so the climb we will be easy, from the top of chola we can enjoy the splendid mountain views to the west and to the east .The trail afterwards descend through the glacier of arkansas and later followed by the open valley with towering Cholatse on the right.

Today is going to be the longest walk on high altitude, as we are already acclimatized so it will be fun. We will walk till Gorakshep, the last lodges on the way to Everest base camp. We will leave our stuff there on Gorak Shep and after lunch we will go to the famous Everest Base camp. During spring Everest base camp became the most populated Glacier , during the fall and winter we just encountered the Khumbu Glacier , as the Glacier moves constantly Everest base camp is also established in different places. We hike back to Gorak Shep.

Early this morning we will climb to Kalapathar to see the sunrise. Actually sunset is better than sunrise. Here, one can enjoy the famous view of Everest ,Lhotse and Nuptse.We will descend to Lobuche.

Our last pass and the last 5k points we spent during our trek. Early in the morning we will cross Khumbu Glacier and climb till Kongma la, the view from the top of Kongmala is astonishing. On the right of the pass the south wall of Lhotse towers into the clouds. On the east we will see many mountains of 6k and 7k among them the Makalu 8481m (the 5th highest mountain). We will descend to Dingboche enjoying the mingbo face of Amadablam in front.

Today most of the way we descend passing various settlements like Somare, pangboche where we encounter many trekkers, we will visit the famous Tyangboche monastery on the way, it is a long day but we can enjoy the ambience of Namche tonight.

This the only trail that we are going to repeat, we will descend from Namche saying goodbye to the Everest, the people and with all the good memories we will celebrate our

last dinner in Lukla with all our staff and Guides.

We will fly back to Manthali and drive to Kathmandu that day. In the evening you can explore the local market of Thamel and buy souvenirs for your friends and family.

In case we couldn’t fly back to Kathmandu because of the unseen conditions it's better to have one extra day.

You will be dropped off at the airport in a car or jeep prior to your flight departure time.