How Much Does the Everest Base Camp Trek Cost?
Current as of January 2018 How much does the Everest Base Camp trek cost? Anything from US$500 to over $10,000. There really is that much...
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What Gear Do I Need for the Everest Base Camp Trek (and Why)?
*Last Updated December 2015* What gear you need for the Everest Base Camp trek depends on what season you will be trekking in. It is...
Escape from Lukla!
The airline “office”, a hole-in-the-wall affair on the cobbled thoroughfare littered with yakalo and mule dung that is Lukla’s answer to Oxford Street, “opens” at...
The Morning After
“You realise – or you would do if you hadn’t stayed out till 4am getting sozzed,” says Zac over breakfast. “That if we don’t get...
Mountain Madness
Readers of a sensitive disposition might want to skip this post. How about reading the first post I ever wrote instead, or this lovely one...
Stuck in Lukla
As we amble from Phakding to Lukla – a walk that took us three hours coming down but half that going up, a measure of...
On Thin Ice – Talking Child Marriage in Nepal
On Thin Ice Everest Base Camp the Lazy Way: Day 18 “Nir,” I open, tentatively. We are on the last-but-one night of our trek, insha’allah,...
Coming Down from Everest Base Camp
Everest Base Camp the Lazy Way Day 16 – Pheriche to Tengboche The next day’s walking is, like Pheriche, almost new to us. It’s perfectly...
Kala Patthar
Everest Base Camp the Lazy Way – Day 14-15 By mid-afternoon, the sun is breaking through the clouds, warming the air both inside and outside...
We Made It! Everest Base Camp!
Everest Base Camp the Lazy Way Day 14 Sleeping in thermals, jeans, two fleeces, two pairs of socks and a snood, but neither hat nor...