By Emma 
Mt. Everest- no doubt it is the highest mountain in the world. Lots of people are making a dream to trek up to the Everest base camp, see it closer at least once in a lifetime. There are several ways to visit the base camp of Everest which you can see here.
Trek To Everest Base Camp
Everest base camp trek is an amazing adventure journey through the Sagarmatha national park. The trekking trail will be very busy with lots of trekkers in each high trekking season. The people who love adventure and physically fit with a long holiday to the Everest can do a trek to the base camp.
It is 12 days plan in total from Kathmandu to Kathmandu. Walking 8 days from Lukla, the base camp reached and 3 days to Lukla with long days trek and fly out to Kathmandu the next morning.
This trek can be done from Jiri driving by bus and Salleri driving with the jeep. Though, starting the trek from these places will be around a week longer then trek from Lukla.
Best Time To Trek
The months of autumn and spring are the best time to trek to the Everest base camp. The weather and temperature are favourable during this time and usually clear visibility.
But trekking until mid-September in autumn and late May in spring is not that good because it might rain in a few days.
Winter is doable but it will be freezing temperature but monsoon from June to August is not recommended.
Scenic Mountain Flight To See Everest
Everest mountain flight is one of the quickest ways to see the world’s highest mountain. It is a couple of hours flight takes off from Kathmandu.
There are several airline companies operating mountain flight trip. The trip operates every morning and flies over the Everest, Langtang, Gauri Shanker and more Himalaya and land back on the Kathmandu airport.
The plane has single seats on both sides and flies through both directions so everyone from the plane will be able to enjoy the view of the great Himalaya.
Everest mountain flight costs 200 USD per person including airport transportation and the customer will get a certificate of the flight. If the weather is not good, the flight does not operate and even If you fly and see nothing, you will get 100% money back deducting the cost of the airport ground transportation.
Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour
Everest helicopter tour is one of the quickest ways to reach the base camp and explore the Everest Himalaya. This type of tour suites for the people, who have not enough time in Nepal, can’t trek to the base camp or scare with altitude problem but really would like to be at the base camp of the mount. Sagarmatha.
Taking an Everest mountain flight with a plane is only to see the Himalaya but not to be at the base camp. Similarly, flying with a helicopter to the base camp is a landing tour so you can reach the base camp with this kind of flight tour.
The flight lands in several places after Kathmandu so you can explore the Everest region well. After taking off from the Kathmandu airport, the first land is in Lukla to refill fuel and the second land is at the Everest view hotel Syangboche.
A helicopter flies with 5 passengers with a single shuttle. It is only up to the Everest view hotel with 5 people than 2 will drop off here and flies with 3 people to the base camp. With full of passengers, the helicopter can’t land on Kala Patthar. 2 people who dropped off at the Everest view hotel, they enjoy panoramic Everest Himalaya and breakfast in the hotel.
Rest people will enjoy the view from Kala Patthar and fly over the base camp and Khumbu icefall then turn back. Now, 2 people who were taken off, they do the same program in which the first group has been done. After that, all the people will fly back to Kathmandu.
Everest base camp helicopter tour cost is about 1000 USD per person with a sharing flight. If you charter a flight on your own or with your family, it cost you around 4500 USD. You need to take a passport with you for check-in at Kathmandu airport.
It might be cold up there when you will have several landings. You need to wear warm clothes and take some change amount for your breakfast in the mountain.
Going to the Everest base camp (https://www.welcomenepal.com/places-to-see/everest-base-camp.html) with a trek is physical work so you need to be well trained and need to know about the effect of the altitude sickness and be well prepared. But flying with a helicopter to the base camp, you should not care about any things else so you just be ready to see the great view.
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