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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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Trekking in Salento Area

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 Day 1 Valle de Cocora to Finca La Argentina Length: 9.9km Alt. start: 2,400m Alt. end: 3,400m Departure: 8am Lunch: El Bosque I met my guide at Salento around 8:00 am to be ready to leave by 8:30 am and hop on a Willys Jeep for the 12km drive to Valle de Cocora where our Trek starts. Valle de Cocora is a natural cloud forest and home of the Colombian national tree Palma de Cera. This giant wax palm tree, the tallest in the world growing up to 65 meters, was near extinction…

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Lost City Trek – LA CIUDAD PERDIDA

🇨🇴 🇨🇴 🇨🇴   Day 1 I was picked up from my hotel and was driven to the company office to pay up the dues and after that it was long and bumpy ride to starting point of El Mamey town . This drive took about 3.5 hours. We then had our lunch at El Mamey. From El Mamey hiking starts , it was about 4 - 5 hour hiking to Adam Camp . The evening was spent in chit-chatting with group . There was a good dinner in the evening and…

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Yorkshire 3 Peak Challenge

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge takes on the peaks of Pen-y-Ghent (694 metres), Whernside (736 metres) and Ingleborough (723 metres), usually in this order, and in under 12 hours. These hills form part of the Pennine range, and encircle the head of the valley of the River Ribble, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I drove to YHA Hawes on the previous day and stayed for 2 nights . Very early morning on the next day I left for 3 peak challenge . I drove to the starting point…

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Guatemala : Climbing 5 Volcanoes

🇬🇹 🇬🇹 🇬🇹 I arrived a day before. Today I changed the hotel and explored this lovely city of Antigua. From the next day its time to start gruelling back to bacl volcano climbs. Day 2 Hike Pacaya Volcano and Cerro Grande (2561m) In the morning I got straight to the task at hand: volcano trekking! I was driven  to the trailhead of Pacaya National Park, laced up my hiking boots and hit the trail for what is an ideal acclimatisation trek. The route weaves first through steep dense forests and green…

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Read more about the article Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Part – 1

Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Part – 1

🇹🇿 🇹🇿 🇹🇿 Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro was a dream for a long time. I started researching seriously from 2022 but finally could make it happen in 2024 January.  I booked the solo trip through a local company based in Moshi called Kiliafricatours. I choosed Northern Circuit Route, because it gives best chance of aclamatization , relatively quite and had beautiful scenic view. Day 1  MOSHI - LONDOROSI GATE – MTI MKUBWA CAMP I flew from Heathrow to Moshi by Turkish Air. There was stopover at Istanbul and then I reached Kilimanjaro International…

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Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro Part – 2

🇹🇿 🇹🇿 🇹🇿 DAY 6: BUFFALO CAMP – THIRD CAVE CAMP This day begins with a climb up the Buffalo ridge and down into Pofu Camp where lunch is usually served. The route then continues east around the northern slopes to the Rongai Third Cave at 3,800 meters. The trek is shorter than the day before and by now I was well acclimatized to the altitude. You arrived at the Third Cave just around mid-afternoon. This is rarely travelled route allowed one to enjoy vast mountains wilderness in peace. Distance: 8km/5miles, Hiking…

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