What's It Like Trekking To Everest Base Camp?
Besides breathtaking scenery, you will experience a unique Sherpa culture, visit monasteries and museums. Also, you will enjoy your days completely. You also pass by colorful prayer wheels and walk on swinging bridges, and these seem to be straight out from the movie called Indiana Jones, while in the evenings, you are served hot food and have time for conversation with like-minded trekkers around the fire in a dining room
When Should I Make The Trek?
March-June and September-December is a good time to do Trek.
How Do I Get In Shape?
Prepare by cycling, swimming, hill climbing and do a lot of walking if you have time. You can walk about 5 hours once each week just 3 months prior to doing the Everest Base Camp Trek. Seek out hills or find a tall building and repeatedly walk up and down the stairs.
Essential Backpack Gears For Everest Base Camp Trek:
- A fleece jackets
- Down jacket
- Thermal underwear
- Two pairs of long pants,
- Two or three T-shirts
- broken-in boots
- Trekking socks
- Sneakers or sandals for evenings
- Raincoat, gloves
- Woolen hat
- Sunhat
- Polarized sunglasses
- Comfortable sleeping bag (rated to -20°C/0°F) is necessary; if it’s winter, a thermal liner can help make it warmer.
- Sunscreen
- Lip balm
- travel towel and tissues
- Baby wipes
- Medication for diarrhea
- Antibiotics for a chest or sinus infection
- Adhesive bandages for blisters
- Use two 1L water bottles
- Water purification tablets
How Can I Trek Safely?
1. Hike Slowly And Easily:
Altitude sickness can affect anyone – even the tremendously fit individual. (Typically, you will accustom at Namche and Dingboche) Indications of elevation mountain sickness are nuisances, faintness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite and breathlessness. Diamox is used for treatment, but if symptoms continue, descend downhill.
2. Eat Veg Foods:
As appealing as it is to go a juicy yak steak or ‘buff burger’, be conscious that all meat is approved up by porters from Lukla due to the no-killing policy in the Sagarmatha National Park, so by the period you have it, it is not that new. The harmless, fittest choice is to eat dal Bhat (lentil soup and rice) – it is fresh and is a great basis of protein and energy. As the Nepali proverb goes like this, ‘Dal Bhat’ power equals 24-hour energy.
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