Leaving Sunday to do the Mount Everest Basecamp Trek

There was another dude that had a big thread on this earlier. Posted updates along his way when he was able.

My 68 year old friend did this with his son earlier this year. He trained for a year to get ready including sleeping in hypo tent for a month to get acclimated. It was a great trip for them.

Here are a couple of articles about it.

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This popped up in my youtube a few weeks ago

Seems like a neat hike

I did it in ‘22, trained for about a year,,,,train with a backpack on at 20-25lbs,,,train to be walk uphill 5-6hrs a day at a slow pace by getting on that staimaster, one day a week, put that backpack on and work your way up to being able to hike 6-7 hrs at a time, learn to drink at least 5-6L water, eat alllll you can even though you aren’t hungry, take diamond and ibuprofen for 3 days prior to leaving Kathmandu, buy good merino wool under layers and socks, buy hard shell and down jackets in Kathmandu, much cheaper, buy gooood goretex boots and wear them training for a couple weeks before getting on the mountain, dress in layers, depending on the time you are going, bad camp can get into the minus 10-15s and if so bring a good insulated pair of boots, bring several different warmths of gloves, you can get those in Nepal also, get a really comfortable 30/40L backpack and train with that for a month or so before you get on the mountain, again, Drink 5-6L water or more and use disinfectant tablets on any liquid you drink,,,,and questions you have ?

Base camp
There is my trip report from last year.
It really isn’t that tough if you are a good hiker, the issue is obviously altitude, which you won’t know until you get there. Day two is probably the most difficult physically, minus altitude issues. Overall it is an incredible trip.
There are showers and WiFi in some of the tea houses, for a price, not too bad. The last couple tea houses are pretty basic and nasty, so throw sanitation out the window for those days.
I did Kilimanjaro this year, EBC is much easier than kili, but you walk faster and don’t go poli poli the whole way up, plus the acclimatization days really help.

If you have any specific questions I can try to answer them. Oh yeah, I’m sure you already know, eat vegetarian on the trek, at least until you get to Namche on the way back down.

The trip was around 1100, food was a few hundred, tip was a couple hundred, flight around 1200, plus a few hundred miscellaneous

Did you die in Nepal?

Wow. Best wishes!!