Everest Three Passes Trek

Finding Nepal staff will welcome you at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu,  Nepal. You will be transferred you to the hotel via the tourist Vehicle. Finding Nepal  guide will brief you about the Hotel, Kathmandu city, Trekking in Nepal, do’s and  don’ts while you stay in Nepal with related information that is required to travel  Nepal.

After having our breakfast, we will go for sightseeing. Pashupatinath Temple is a famous Hindu temple, located at the bank of the Bagmati River. One of the most worshipped temples for the Hindu religion people around the world and the UNESCO world heritage site. The golden pagoda style temple is purely carved with silver doors and beautiful wood carving. Boudhanath stupa is the largest Stupas in the world, and it is located on the east in Kathmandu place called Boudha named after the stupa. After coming back, you have some time to rest and prepare your gear and so on—overnight in the hotel.

At the morning you will be transferred to domestic airport and board in the twin otter or similar plane for the flight to Lukla airport, on arrival you will meet our guides. At Lukla you will have a short time to visit around the village, while the Sherpa and crew sort and divide the load, lunch depending upon the time of arrival either in Lukla or few hours treks further on route to Phakding. The first-day trek all the way, with few ups offering views of Mt. Kusum-Kanguru 6,369m 2-3 hrs of gradual walk brings you to Phakding village for the overnight stop.

From Phakding after crossing bridge over the River Dudh-Koshi the walk is pleasant with few short ascend and descend and crossing the same river again, with magnificent view of Thermasarkhu 6,608m, reaching at Monjo village, after Monjo, walk to the entrance gate of Everest National Park, after a short descend and gradual walk to Jorsalle village is reached, the last community till Namche Bazaar, with a pleasant walk on the river bed till to the last bridge over the Imjatse River, from here trek along the winding uphill path to Namche Bazaar, with grand views of Kwande peak, Kusum Kanguru and Mt. Everest with Nuptse, Lhotse and the closer look of Taboche peak is seen all the way up, another hour walk up reaches to Namche Bazaar, the colourful houses are situated in an amphitheatre landscapes.

A rest day with short walk for acclimatization to Sagarmatha National Park Headquarter, a panoramic view spot on top of Namche Bazaar with surrounding snow-capped mountains, valleys scenery visit the museum with all kinds of information history of Himalaya, Geography, Culture, Mountaineering and on flora and fauna of this region, afternoon free at leisure.

Today after breakfast, we will take a different path from the regular Everest base camp trek route while walking to Thame. The path is typical through the peaceful trail. Thame is one of the oldest settlements in the Khumbu region. This route was used as a trading trail with Tibet. We will also explore Thame Gompa. The Gompa is major attraction centre in the area and renowned for the festival known as Mani Rimdu. Overnight at Lodge/ Tea House

Today after breakfast, we will continue our trek and trails leads to an alpine territory and becomes more challenging. The lower in oxygen makes our walk adventurous. We go on a higher towards Marlung, today’s destination. During our trek, we have an opportunity to visit Kyaro Gumba and Taranga temple. Reach to Marlung and rest with beautiful view around. Overnight at a local lodge/ Tea house.

After breakfast at Marlung, we will continue our trek and trails lead to high altitude 4600 meters above sea level, and we reach to Lumde. Right after we start our trek, we get the beautiful view of Ngozumba glacier. The path leads to steep uphill with a magnificent view of Kongde peak. Overnight at local lodge/ tea house.

After breakfast at Lumde we will continue our trek and trails leads to the first high pass of the trek- Renjo La. We will enjoy the beautiful view of Renjo Lake and Relama Tso. From the top, we can explore the spectacular Kongde view, alpine landscape, Makalu, TengiRagi Tau, Rolwaling Range, and trek down to the picturesque Gokyo valley. The first pass offers us adventure experience of crossing the high pass. We enjoy our evening in the bank of Gokyo Lake. Overnight stay at local lodge/ tea house.

We trek to Gokyo Ri early in the morning through the steep rocky trails. Gokyo Ri offers incredible views of soaring mountains in the Everest region. Ngozumba glacier stretches on the length around the Khumbu glacier. From this place, the views of the beautiful Gokyo Lakes and valleys can be seen. It is also an acclimatizing trek so that we can have a nice journey through the high pass over the Cho La. Then we come back to the Gokyo valley. Overnight at local lodge/ tea house.

We wake up for wonderful sunrise views. Even the pristine DudhPokhari shines with the rays of the sun. After breakfast at Gokyo, we start to head further with a beautiful view of Kusum Kanguru, Thamserku, Kangtega, Makalu, Lhotse, Nuptse, and various others. Then we reach our today’s destination at Thagnak. Overnight at local lodge/ tea house.

Today we will start to trek early in the morning before the sunrise to avoid bad weather. It is an inclined climb up through the rocky trails. Cho La Pass is at 5300 meters high from sea level and another good viewpoint for the Everest and its trails. We have to use the ropes, crampons and other climbing equipment to cross the pass if there is snow in the path. Then, we start a sharp descent very carefully. Descend comes to an end when we reach our campsite at Dzongla. Overnight at local lodge/ Tea house.

Today We will walk down all the way to Lobuche to meet the Everest Base Camp Trekking route the trekkers along the route. A small settlement, Lobuche offers beautiful views of Himalayan peaks of Thamserku, Kangtega, Tawoche motivates us to proceed ahead. Overnight at local lodge/Tea House

We will trek to Gorak Shep from Lobuche. The trail moves up and down on the mountains. Once we reach Gorak Shep, we take lunch at the tea house where we are staying tonight and move towards Everest Base Camp in the afternoon. We walk to the base of the highest mountain in the world the Everest. We walk to the base camp of the Everest which is different than the old where Hillary and Tenzing had camped before starting on their adventurous journey towards the summit of the highest peak in the world Mt Everest. After spending some quality time at the Everest base camp, we start our way back to Gorakshep. Overnight at Local Lodge/ Tea House.

We will start an early morning hike up to the glittering views of Kalapatthar, which provides beautiful panoramic views of the mountain peaks in front of us. We get to enjoy a beautiful sunrise over the Himalayas. Later, we descend to Gorak Shep have our breakfast and proceed on the trek way back down to Lobuche. Overnight at Local Lodge/ Tea house.

After breakfast at Lobuche, we will continue our trek and trails leads us to Chhukung through a high Himalayan pass of Kongma La, which is at 5535 meters in elevation from sea level. This path to Chhukung is the suitable one because it takes us through a high pass which gives us enough time for good acclimatization to the summit the island peak. The path today goes along with the Khumbu glacier which leads to the Kongma La pass passing through the elevation of 5000 meters above sea level. After crossing the Kongma La pass, we start our descent towards Imja Khola valley and further to Chhukung. Overnight at a local lodge/ Tea house.

Today we will trek to Tengboche. We will start the trek early from Chhukung village, leaving behind the great Island peak behind us after our breakfast. The tiredness of the wonderful adventure gives us the fuel to walk happily to Tengboche. We walked past beautiful Pangboche village where we had some nice time exploring the monastery while heading towards the base camp. We reached Tengboche village after about 6 hours of trekking journey for another incredible view. Overnight at Tengboche village.

We walk down to Namche Bazaar after having our breakfast. Descending via the pine forest towards the Namche Bazar, we will enjoy the one last view of the Everest. We will walk past Namche Bazar and move further lower to Monjo. Overnight at Local Lodge/ tea house.

Today we will complete a round trip to Lukla. Travelling the trail down towards the Dudh Koshi River and walking alongside it, we eventually reach Lukla trekking past Phakding and other beautiful places. Overnight at local lodge.

The flight time to Kathmandu in the morning sometimes the flight time can be delayed due to bad weather and other reasons, as per the flight time takes about 30 minutes to reach Kathmandu, a panoramic view of the snow-capped peaks is seen during the flight. At Kathmandu air terminal, Finding Nepal Treks staff receives and transfer you back to respective hotels.