Tibet: Everest Base Camp
Everest Base Camp – one of the ultimate bucket list destination! The Northern base camp is in Tibet at the altitude of 5,150 m /16,900 ft and requires a special permit (in addition to Tibet permit). You drive to within 4km of the actual base camp and sleep there in primitive tents (walking up way before sunrise with a splitting headache from the elevation). Then you hike at night for another hour or so as the sun comes up and starts illuminating the Everest peak just in front of you. From a hill above the actual Everest Base Camp North you get an incredible panorama of the highest mountain in the world as clouds float below and around it – this is Everest North Face. The north face gets significantly less snow then the south as the mountain range blocks almost everything. The climbing season was already over for the North Face and there were no climbers. It’s a bit surreal to stand here in thin air and gaze at the top of the world!
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