Hotel Everest

... you can eat rice, veg curries, beans etc, served on a banana leaf costs about $2 Nepal: I've attached a couple of pictures of the Everest Region in Nepal, but please believe me when I say that the images only convey 5% of the beauty of this part of the ...

... acclimatize. I had my first Dal Baht this time in Nepal and it was a pleasant day where we passed a disused airstrip, the Everest View Hotel and other small sights. The walk back was amazing we walked above the clouds and it was beautiful, it looked like ...

Kathmandu - Lukla - Phakding Got return flights arranged to Lukla so I could embark on my Everest trek.  Was umming and ahhing about whether to go alone or get a guide or go with group...in the end decided to go it alone and see what happens as ...

... rotating their prayer wheels. We left the family at a monastery and found our way to the base camp or basic camp!!! Everest looked magnificent in the bright sunshine even though base camp is a bit of a drab barren disappointment itself. We stayed at ...

... the same place!  Was a brilliant day though.  We started off in the morning with a huge steep incline up to the Everest View Hotel which is supposedly the highest 5* hotel in the world. There were loads of people making their way up to this view ...

... Following the same track as yesterday on or so called rest day, but this time continuing onwards with Mt Everest and its beautiful neighbours getting closer and closer with every step. We stopped frequently in the morning. Every ...

... rounds of Shithead (card game)  Everyone was getting very pumped up to goto Base Camp tomorrow. Day 8 Labouche - Gorak Shep - Everest Base Camp Everyone was getting up around 6am. There were 2 casualties to altitude sickness - Tanya and Sinead. ...

... later.We did an acclimatization hike today to help us prepare for the coming days, about 400m up and down including our first sighting of Everest itself. I have to say this was an anti-climax as it is so far away, and with so many massive peaks around it, ...

... questions. A typical example would be as follows: Me - "How high is the road we're on right now?"; Him "Yes, Mount Everest is 8800m high". Obviously, I made him aware of my annoyance, telling him that if he didn't know the answer to a question then not ...

... of the highlights of our trip so far. We hiked a route called the 'Three Passes', encompassing 7 high points – 3 high passes (obviously), Everest base camp, and 3 small peaks. We had alot of time on our hands as we were done hiking each day by early ...

... and very cold later our driver had still not turned up, the sun had risen and after more confusion mum and I abandoned the Everest viewing idea and went to breakfast to warm and wake up and get over our disappointment…. Over to Ads…. The ...

... paintings on the walls of the room took 4 monks working all day for 46 days to complete." April 6th:  "Coming down from Everest view point, I was feeling pretty shitty, so I stopped into a small tea house, and a rosy cheeked, round faced, Sherpa ...

... reservation where you can see four of the highest points in the mountain range. Qomolangma (8848m) is the Tibetan word for Mount Everest. The other 3 highest points were: Mt. Lhotse(8516m), Mt. Qowowuyag(8201m),Mt Mayalu(8463m). By the time we got to ...

... lucky, we will reach Mount Everst base camp. A half a day of grueling trails over boulders, ice, and glaciers we reach Mt. Everest base camp. Absolutely AMAZING, STUNNING, and BREATH TAKING (not only from the fact that there is 1/2 the amount of oxygen as ...

... 4:30 PM and had some hot tea. We were all wet and cold. We heated ourselves at the chimney fire in the Tengboche hotel. First View of the everest It was very cold at Tengboche and we had to take our gloves and jackets off. We rested for the evening and ...

... villages. The huge smooth hills around the villages are extremely barren with not a single shred of vegetation. We arrived at Mount Everest's north base camp along Rongpu creek in mid-afternoon. The elevation is 5100 m/16,700 ft., the weather was windy ...

... , specially on the morning we where setting off we where woken by people screaming at the top of the hill as they watched Everest at Sunrise........ tourists.. So what does a day in the life of base camp involve....... Well if you are not waking up to ...

... actually see it without clouds! It suddenly starts to snow as we wander around the monastery, and the monks are wearing bobble hats. At Everest Base Camp we are greeted by a line of large 'tea tents', large enough to sleep around 6 in one room. We ...

... ; (Needless to say ...a very cold walk) Day 10:  Trekked up Kala Pattar peak 5545m to have the best view of Everest and surrounding mountains without actually climbing them.  Wonderful view and well worth the effort even though we did not do it ...

26.9.06 Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal Everest flight Des, Lynn and Lou got up at 5am for their flight over Mt. Everest with Buddha Air. They were very excited about it and hoped the mist would clear enough for them to get a good view. They were guaranteed ...