Everest 3 Passes Trek Clockwise : Part – 3 EBC to Lukla and crossing Kongma La

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Day 15 - EBC to Lobuche Phase 1  EBC to Gorakshep : Staying Everest Base Camp (EBC) at 5,364 meters is a rare, raw, and physically demanding experience that trades standard lodge comfort for an unforgettable, front-row seat to the world's highest peaks. All the climbers from agency went  to climb some peaks , so the whold camp was pretty much to me . This is the first time I unpacked and used my sleeping bag . My camp was at the edge of the glacier , and throughout…

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Everest 3 Passes Trek Clockwise : Part -2 Lungden to EBC

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Day - 9 Lungden(4380M) to Gokyo(4750M) Via Renjo La Pass(5360M) : 12.95 Km 10Hr 44Min This is the first big pass to tackle . I started before dawn in sub-zero temperatures. The trail exits the quiet village of Lungden and follows the remote Bhote Koshi Valley northward. The initial terrain covers sandy alpine meadows and yak pastures before turning into a rockier, barren moraine landscape. I walked past a couple of isolated, frozen meltwater lakes, including Angladumba Tsho and Relama Tsho. The final approach to the ridge line is…

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EBC 3 Passes – Overall Statistics

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Distance  Ascent Descent Time Day 1  - Surke to Phakding  9.3KM 604M 288M 4 hr Day 2 - Phakding to Namche Bazar 16.32 KM 1211M 366M 5hr 58m Day 3 - Namche Bazar 15.01KM 792M 783M 7hr 18m Day 4 - Namche Bazar to Thame 9.19 KM 645M 299M 3hr 42 Day 5 -  Thame Monastery and Thame to Lungden 15.21KM 969M 372M 6h 46m Day 6 Lungden Day Hike 10.82KM 402M 390M 4h Day 7 - Lungden to Gokyo Via Renjo La Pass 12.95KM 1104M 683M 10hr 44m…

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Everest 3 Passes Trek Clockwise : Part -1 Kathmandu to Lungden

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 It was dream for many years to embark on this epic trek, probably  the most comprehensive trek of Khumbhu Region. Day 1: Kolkata to Kathmandu: My day started with an early morning flight from Kolkata to Kathmandu. There is just one Nepali airline , Budha Air which operate a direct flight on every alternate day. It was just under 2 hrs and I was well in time to check-in my hotel and then found a nice restrurant in Thame area for a traditional Nepali Lunch. It was interesting to…

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Paragliding in Pokhara

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Paragliding in Pokhara is an amazing activity . Unlike some other adventure sports its more serene almost felt like spiritual. The Paragliding take-off height is 1592 meters in Sarangkot hills and the ending point is 593 m in Lakeside. It is fairly safe .There was an accident om 2020 Nov in which pilot died and the passenger suffered critical injuries . Though the cause was not reported in the media but local pepole told me this was due to some dare devil stunt  (plucking a flower from cliff wall…

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Annapurna base camp

🇳🇵 🇳🇵 🇳🇵 Trekking in Nepal was always a dream . Nepal is a tiny country, which has 8 out of 14 8000M peaks in the world. However I was not considering trekking in Nepal.  My original plane was to travel in India and spend some days in Uttarakhand / Himachal , but my cheap return ticket from LOT air has been cancelled and tickets to India were very costly. So I bought a ticket to Kathmandu instead. Annapurna base camp trek is probably the only trek with all the glamour and…

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