Everest Base Camp Trek Difficulty

Everest Base Camp Trek Difficulty depends upon each individual attitude and physical fitness as well as preparation before choosing or booking the trek. No matter how difficult one can find, but thousands of travelers and adventurers from all walks of life visit Everest base camp every season of the year, however, we would like to provide some important information that all interested adventurers and trekkers would like to know about.

Around the Himalayas, the most popular destination and as well for other exciting adventures is the trek to Everest base camp also, besides the Everest region. Everest Base Camp widely visited the region around Nepal Himalaya, due to its picturesque scenery of the world’s highest peaks and impressive local Sherpa culture, the natives of Khumbu the Sherpa known as the highlanders of Everest.

Complications of Everest Base Camp Trek

The first thing to know about the difficulty is the duration of itinerary days, and how long is the trek for hours of walks each day. Trying to understand the nature of the Everest base camp trek difficulty, collecting information from your agents, or from various sources that you can search and find on Google.

The EBC Trek’s main difficulty is to reach Lukla on the flight at a specific time and date, which sometimes it might lead to delay and cancellation due to unfavorable and bad weather conditions. This does not happen all the time but this problem and difficult sometimes and season-wise, as Himalayan weather patterns even at the best time of the year for trekking and other adventures can be unpredictable.

Adventure & Complicated Lukla Flight

Similarly taking a flight back to Kathmandu from Lukla after completing the trek, where delays and cancellations might happen, where your guide and the local agent will keep you informed of the situation. The other major difficulty is walking at a high altitude to reach at Everest base camp (5364m), where trekkers have to encounter a few steep uphill climbs.

On the first day an easy gradual trail for pleasant walks. Where is the second day by mid-afternoon where the route leads you to climb on an undulating, winding trail to reach Namche Bazaar? Situated on a glacial ridge where houses are built in amphitheaters and U shape at 3,440 meters high.

From Namche onward walking is not that difficult, with only short hills to climb and rise in elevation that might create some difficulty for trekkers, where all need to take it slow and steady with few short rest to catch their breath. From Tengboche onward to Everest base camp the trail is not overall difficult but can lead to a few serious problems if one is not careful, due to the rapid rise in altitude where you will encounter dry air.

Stunning Scenarios & High Landscapes

Walking on windswept high terrain well exposed to wind-chill factor that can make the trek quite difficult, apart from barren landscapes and rise in elevation day walk to designated overnight stop are at an average distance of 4-5 hours. Firstly of all depends upon each individual, how to fit they are physically and as well preparedness, for the adventure beforehand with past and present medical history.

Actually, it is not as difficult as it sounds and looks from various descriptions of the 14 days of Everest base camp trekking. The only difficulty for most trekkers facing steep ups and downhill, and high altitude gain on the route to Everest base camp from the starting town and airport at Lukla.

Difficulty can be quite different for each trekker. Where beginners can find much stress and tough going uphill for certain hours, and the rise of elevation on each day’s walks. As long as trekkers are physically fit and can cope with all types of situations that one can encounter during the trek to Everest base camp. It taking at a slow pace with few stops to catch your breath will be wise on high-altitude walks.

Strenuous Walk on the High Altitude

However, most itineraries do have flexible and rest days to support acclimatization at certain heights, like in Namche Bazaar at 4,440 meters high, spending some days in the same high elevation helps one to get acclimatized. The longest and most difficult days for some trekkers are on the second day of the trek going high up to Namche Bazaar, where a long winding uphill reaches you to an overnight stop in the comfort of a nice cozy lodge.

The other tough days are a few hours climb to Tengboche, but one will be excited once reaching on top near the beautiful monastery at Tengboche a marvelous spot surrounded by green woods and with towering white peaks with excellent views of Mt. Everest and magnificent-looking Mt. Amadablam.

From Tengboche to leaving green lush vegetation and tree lines where trekkers can find a change of landscapes of dry and barren windswept terrain, with cold windy afternoons as you walk on the exposed country. Due to the rugged and rough mountain landscape, trekkers might find it hard to breathe as altitude gains gradually, where one needs to take slowly as precautionary measures against AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness).

A Real Adventure Walking Journey Mount Everest Base Camp

The next tough and difficult section on route Everest base camp is going through moraine and glacier walking close to Khumbu glacier towards Gorakshep and Everest base camp. But the spectacular scenery and panorama of the world’s highest mountains make you forget the difficult walks on reaching the main highlight of the adventure at Everest Base Camp.

The other difficult walk to encounter is going up at Kalapathar (5545m) the highest point of the adventure at 5, 643 m / 18, 514 feet high (a newly revised height from the previous 5,545 m the top of Kalapathar). A steep haul for few hours to the top, but you will be rewarded with mind-blowing views of giant peaks that surround Mt. Everest at a close distance.

After being at Everest Base Camp and Kalapathar hilltop rest of the walk is easy on a downhill with a few short ups to reach back at Lukla for the last overnight stop in Khumbu and Everest region.

Besides Everest Base Camp Trek we offer various scenic adventure destinations within high Khumbu around the Everest region

Where one treks to the beautiful and most scenic Gokyo Lake and crosses the high Cho-la pass to reach Everest Base Camp. Other interesting short treks for beginners and families with children can enjoy a trek up to scenic Tengboche Monastery, or just up to Everest View Hotel and around nice lovely villages Khunde and Khumjung.

For a tough challenging trek one can join for Three High Passes of Everest including Kongma-la, Cho-la, and Renjo-La of above 5,400 meters high. One can enjoy adventure taking a classic route to Everest Base Camp from Jiri onward following the footsteps of legendary mountaineers and pioneers.