Tag: #Everest Base Camp
Articles tagged with #Everest Base Camp
Chopper vs Chauri below Everest
Expeditions impacted by rule to replace cargo helicopters with yak trains
Letters from Base Camp 2
All photos: EELUM DIXITEverest Base Camp is ever-changing. The weather, the comings and goings, new world records — and the ice beneath. The…
Letters from Everest Base Camp 1
The sun rises from behind Lho La on Thursday morning as seen from Base Camp. Photos: EELUM DIXITEverest Base Camp sits on a moving, melting…
Everest's Covid dilemma
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal's spring mountaineering season, just recovering from avalanches, earthquakes, and a year of Covid-19 lockdown is once…
Everest's Covid dilemma
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALANepal's spring mountaineering season, just recovering from avalanches, earthquakes, and a year of Covid-19 lockdown is once…
Mt Everest City
Despite Covid-19, Everest is more crowded this spring than at any time in climbing history
Despite Covid-19, climbers are back on Everest
Namche Bazar, the gateway to Mt Everest, is currently abuzz with climbers and trekkers as they prepare to head towards Base Camp after the…
Lifetime experience on Pikey Peak
With new roads, Edmund Hillary’s favourite vantage point is more accessible to trekkers
Teeing off below Everest
https://youtu.be/IBCLqSG_HMMThe Everest Base Camp trek is arduous enough for fit people, but it can be even more difficult for someone over 70.…
Everest fights back
(against garbage and bad press)
Canada and Nepal want to up trade, tourism and investment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZl2VlYpWgI&feature=youtu.beGenerally, it is the nature of Canada and the Canadians to be low-key, and that is…
More than luck in Lukla
Photos: KUNDA DIXITScan the feedback section of travel sites: they are full of laments from frustrated trekkers stuck at Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary…
Trails less travelled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsMi4Zs-KrEAt 7,193m Gurja Himal is not high by Himalayan standards, and is dwarfed by the rock and ice pyramid…
On thin ice in the Khumbu
https://youtu.be/RTnxJKo97DIFor many tourists trekking to Mt Everest Base Camp this autumn, the trip will be an adventure of a lifetime. The…
Fire in the belly
https://youtu.be/o86akJuUBR8Industrial fire today in Chabahil saw locals using their bare hands to fill buckets with muddy water. It took 27…