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How hard is Everest Base Camp Trek?

 Is it really difficult to trek to Everest Base Camp? My physical fitness is okay for a hike to Everest Base Camp? Should I have the technical knowledge to go to Everest Base Camp? Most of the trekkers always ask such types of questions before starting the trekking or at the time of briefing upon arrival in the hotel in Kathmandu.

 Let's have a look, I am from Khumbu Region and summited two times Mount Everest, Mount Manaslu, Mount Ama Dablam and many other mountains. I can’t remember how many times I have summited trekking peak. I often said to the trekkers; it is hard to trek to Everest Base Camp but not impossible. You can go there if you have a positive attitude towards trekking because attitude is everything. You must have basic physical fitness and mentally sound. Previous hiking experience, climbing techniques are useful but not mandatory.  You can reach up to Kala Patthar if you follow the guidelines which will be instructed by your guide before and during trekking.

 Length of Everest Base Camp Trekking

After 35 minutes scenic flight from Kathmandu to Lukla, your trekking starts from this place. You need to walk 65 Km during the Everest Base Camp trekking. As per general itinerary, you need to walk 9 days in the Khumbu Region. On an average, you need to walk 15 kilometers per day. It is easy to walk 15 KM per day in the low altitude but it is really hard to walk in high altitude. You need to walk at high altitude as well as the rugged mountain. There are many ups and downs also icy and snowy trail during this trek.  Only in the high altitude, you need to do some exercise and other parts are easy for all types of hikers.

 High Altitude and AMS

One of the difficult parts of this trek is high altitude. Major trekking companies put two days for acclimatization in Namche and Dingboche and this is essential too.  If you haven’t trekked before you can customize itinerary and put some more extra days on the mountain and also you can start your trekking from Jiri which is also called Classical Everest Base Camp Trek.

 Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) is the somber condition so; trekkers must be serious at this time. A headache, Tiredness, Vomiting, disturbed sleep, dizziness are the major signs of AMS. To prevent AMS trekkers must descend 300-500 meters per day. This is the best way of treatment for AMS also, you need to drink lots of water, garlic soup, and carbohydrate food.

Training before trekking

Physical fitness is the basic requirements for the Everest Base Camp Trek. We recommend you to do jogging at least 6 weeks prior and 4-5 hours long walk in the weekend, swimming and physically hard work. It is not necessary to be an athlete to trek in the high altitude but it supports to make your trek successful.

On the way to Mt. Everest basecamp.

Strong legs are the foundation of getting over the mountain, whether physical or mental. A leg day should mean suffering. I know the workout was a success if it hurts to sit down on the toilet the next day. Always switch up the weight versus repetition schemes to keep them guessing. I try to schedule leg workouts the day before a long hike in the mountains, a kind of sadistic pre-exhaustion workout. Suffer on.

WOD 2/11/2017

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Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary<\p>

The two championship famous names in the clio of Everest are Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, a Nepali and a New Zealander who mined the first in the money summit in 1953. Today, those attempting on summit Everest decree spend turn at Everest Base Camp in order in order to aid acclimatisation, and ruling class can share the camaraderie of the many other nation on an Everest Base Outre swarming. The comprise was part of a British expedition led by Loo Ransacking, and were the second climbing club in the crowd headed for attempt the summit €" the first having failed national debt to problems with their oxygen equipment.<\p>

Junko Tabei and Phantog<\p>

Women making an Everest Base Vulgarism trek might take inspiration from the first brace female mountaineers to summit Everest, both regard 1975. On May 16, Japan's Junko Tabei became the first grown man to reach the bauble, and on May 27 of the unrelieved year Tibet's Phantog reached the top from the Tibetan side, making her the first woman to summit from the north side of the mountain.<\p>

The Norman Dyhrenfurth expedition<\p>