Interested in getting to Everest Base Camp? Don't want to hike for days to Namche Bazaar? Don't like dodgy mountain hygiene or the risk of avalanches? Like to sip a hot drink in comfort while viewing the Mother of Mountains?
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| At the end of the bus route |
Biggest travel tip ever: if you can get into Tibet (ok, it’s a big IF), get a comfy car, drive along good roads to Rongbuk Monastery, stay in the guest house which serves great lemon/ginger/honey tea, and take the shuttle bus to Everest Base Camp. Look down the valley.
In good weather, there is Everest/Quomolunga looking as if it is 10 minutes stroll beyond the glacier moraine.
When the clouds are right, you can see the long northeast ridge where Mallory's body still lies, mutely refusing to indicate if he was the first to summit in his 1922 expedition.
You can even just sit by the stove in the guest house dining room and watch out the window for the Quomolunga summit to ‘peak” out above the evening clouds.
You can even just sit by the stove in the guest house dining room and watch out the window for the Quomolunga summit to ‘peak” out above the evening clouds.
We also saw a partial lunar eclipse when we got up at 3 am to go to the toilet.
Couldn't be easier. What's your best tip?
Team Everest
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