Everest Khangsung Face Trek
Trek features
Total duration: 24 days
Trek/drive/tour duration: 19 days
Max elevation: 5,318m/17,443ft
Trip grade:
Moderate to strenuous
Best season: May to October
Tour starts/ends: Lhasa/Nyalam
Accommodation: 10 nights hotels in Kathmandu and Tibet on
bed and breakfast, rest in basic guesthouses and tented
camp with breakfast, lunch and dinner
Trip Highlights
Guided sightseeing to World Heritage Sites in Kathmandu
valley
Experience spectacular mountain flight over top of the World
Visit the holiest city, Lhasa
Close views of Tibetan lifestyle and culture
Outline itinerary
Day 01: Arrive Kathmandu (1,300m/4,264ft) and transfer to
hotel
Day 02: Explore the best of Kathmandu
Day 03: Trek briefing and preparations
Leave Nepal
Day 04: Fly to Lhasa, explore and time to acclimatize (3,650m/11,972ft)
Day 05: Guided sightseeing-Sera and Drepung Monastery, Jokhang
Temple, Barkour Market
Day 06: Guided exploration tour to Potala Palace and Norbulika
(the summer Palace of his holiness Dalai Lama)
Day 07: Drive to Gyantse(3,950m/12,956ft), a bustling city
famous for its wool carpets, stay in hotel
Day 08: Morning explore Khumbum Chorten, afternoon drive
to Shigatse
(3,900m/12,792ft), visit the largest and the most magnificent
Tashi Lhumpo Monastery, overnight in hotel
Day 09: Drive towards the main Himalayan chain, Shegar via
Sakya, overnight in hotel (4,358m/14,294ft)
Day 10: Drive to Kharta (3,703m/12,145ft), overnight in
camp
Day 11: Trek to Landrubling (3,990m/13,087ft), overnight
in camp
Day 12: Trek to Kaamo Tsangpo valley(4,560m/14,956ft) crossing
Shao La (4,970m/16,031ft). With grand views of Makalu and
Chomolonzo, overnight in camp
Day 13: Trek to Khangsung valley (4,300m/14,104ft), overnight
in camp
Day 14: Trek to Pethang Ringmo (4,550m/14,924ft), overnight
in camp
Day 15: Trek to Hoppo, overnight in camp
Day 16: Trek to Kangshung Base Camp and retrace to Hoppo,
overnight in camp
Day 17: Trek to base of Langma La (5,318m/17,443ft), overnight
in camp at Shurim Tso 4,890m/16,039ft)
Day 18: Trek to Landrubling, overnight in camp
Day 19: Drive to Rongbuk, overnight in camp
Day 20: Hike to Everest’s north side Base Camp (5,000m/16,400ft),
overnight in camp
Day 21: Drive to Nyalam (3,700m/12,136ft) with spectacular
Himalayan views as a companion, overnight in lodge
Return to Kathmandu
Day 22: Drive to Kathmandu
Day 23: Rest day/ farewell dinner
Day 24: Trip concludes
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