How to Travel Everest from Kathmandu

 Traveling by Plane

The Everest region is a very famous mountain region in Nepal. There are thousands of people traveling to Everest from Kathmandu every year. So, how many people travel Everest from Kathmandu then? Let's talk about it now:

Flying to Lukla from Kathmandu or Ramechhap is the most common way of traveling to Everest from Kathmandu. It is about a half an hour scenic adventurous flight to Lukla airport, and then you walk to the base camp taking eight days including two altitude practice days in Namche and Dingboche.

The 12-Day Everest base camp trek is the most popular trekking package in the Everest Himalayas, but you can complete it in 9 days from Kathmandu to Kathmandu. You follow a regular EBC trekking itinerary up to the base camp and then fly out from Gorakshep on a helicopter after the Kalapatthar hike.

I suggest going over to Cho La to see tranquil Gokyo lakes and Gokyo Ri if you have 3 more days with the base camp itinerary and if you are an adventure trekker. The Everest high passes trek is one of the most adventurous trekking packages in the Everest region.

Overland Travel to Everest 

You also can travel to Everest from Kathmandu overland. You drive to Jiri in a bus and walk to the Everest base camp taking a few weeks and then fly out from Lukla or walk back to Jiri again. It is a long Everest journey, and an older trekking route when there was no airport in Lukla. There are very rare trekkers walking on this route nowadays.

Another overland route to Everest is driving to Salleri or Phaplu from Kathmandu in a jeep and then walking. It is also a long trek in the Everest region. It is a new route compared to the other two trekking routes.

Direct Travel to Everest

Can't trek in cold and high elevations? or Don't you have enough time for a long trekking trip? But, you might like to travel to Everest while you are traveling in Kathmandu. The Everest base camp helicopter flight tour takes you directly from Kathmandu to the Everest base camp. It is about four hours flight tour, which takes off from Kathmandu airport, and then flies to the base camp with several landings on vantage viewpoints.

Direct traveling to high elevations might be dangerous for some people, so I suggest spending at least one full day in Kathmandu visiting cultural heritage sites, and then traveling to Everest.