Everest Base Camp
Stunning high-altitude trekking
Luxury accommodation
Expert guided support
Sherpa and Buddhist cultures
Return by helicopter
Surrounded by some of the world’s highest and most majestic mountains, you’ll trek among remote villages and alongside Sherpa to the legendary Everest Base Camp. Immersed in the culture, you’ll stay at tea houses run by Sherpa who are like family to me, cross suspension bridges lined with fluttering prayer flags, and receive a blessing for your trek at a Tibetan monastery. You’ll tent overnight at Everest Base Camp, humbled and awed. This is a spiritual place, a place for self-discovery even beyond the physical challenge of trekking to an altitude of 17,598 feet.
It’s also one of the safest high-altitude treks in the world. Period. The trek requires excellent physical condition, not technical mountaineering skill. Trekkers do not travel through the Khumbu Icefall or other elements navigated by mountain climbers who are attempting the two-month expedition to summit Mount Everest. The Nepali support team that I hand-select for the Everest Base Camp trek are highly experienced, have worked with me for many years, and are dear friends. Our level of support makes this trek an excellent challenge for beginning and advanced hikers alike.
We return to Kathmandu by helicopter from Everest Base Camp, saving the normal 4-day return trek to Lukla on trails already traveled. The trek totals 10 days of walking and 17 days door-to-door from the U.S.
Next expedition: April 11-27, 2025
17 days (10 hiking)
Timmerman Traverse
for Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
~ invite only ~
Registration opens Oct. 15, 2024
Lodging
Lodging in Kathmandu is at the famous climbers and trekkers hotel, The Yak and Yeti. Lodging will be shared double rooms. Single rooms are available in Kathmandu (not on the trek) at an extra cost, booked ahead of time.
Lodging on the trek will be in Sherpa tea houses, plus one night in tents at Everest Base Camp. Accommodation will be shared double rooms and shared tents in base camp. Single accommodation is not available on the trek.
We will have rooms with attached bathrooms with showers the first three or four locations through to Dingboche.
Once we travel higher to Lobuche and beyond, the accommodations become more simple. Bathrooms will be shared. Showers may be available at extra cost, depending on facility.
We stay at the some of the nicest tea houses in all of the Everest region. At most of these accommodations, we enjoy deep connections and friendships with the Sherpa owners, developed over 25 years of my visiting the region.
Dining
At our daily accommodation, we will enjoy dinners and breakfasts together. I will ask you for your meal order each day in advance of our arrival.
Along the trail, we will have a hot lunch at a tea house. I will pass out a light trail snack each morning. You will have your favorite trail snacks on hand, too (see Gear List).
Trekking
Weight of pack
You will hike with a light daypack. It will have only the things you need each day while on the trail: rain gear, warm layers, sun protection, water, snacks, and so forth.
Porters will carry your heavier duffel bag each day from location to location. Your duffel is for your sleeping bags, extra clothes, toiletries and other things you should not be carrying in your daypack. (See Gear List.)
“Best guide I have had for trekking and adventure travel.”
~ J. Morrison, 2022 Everest Base Camp trek
“Eric was an exceptional leader throughout the trek -- especially given that our group comprised lots of senior executives accustomed to being in charge of things and leading themselves.
He was calm, knowledgeable, and never lost his cool, even in some anxious moments on the trail (like when we were passed on a narrow section of trail by two yak trains heading different directions) or in response to some fairly obvious questions (“It’s called a stuff-sack for a reason!”).
He did a fantastic job throughout, and the fact that the entire team made it to Base Camp is testament to his effectiveness.”
~ D. Hoffman, 2022 Everest Base Camp trek
