Everest Base Camp Trek
Curated record — the classic Lukla↔EBC trek is not mapped as a single OSM route relation; geometry is a curated assembly. Schematic 42.9 km village line from Lukla to Everest Base Camp (out-and-back). Vertical figures are an 8-point GLO-30 sample of that schematic, not a walking profile. Days (4) is a placeholder from round(lengthKm/12), not the published 12–14 day window with acclimatization.
Byline
- The Hiking World editorial · author
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Figures marked provisional are seed data and still need verification. Source and last-checked date sit under each cited value.
Editorial v1 · Provisional catalog
- SAC T2
- Mountain hiking. Continuous trail, some steep ground, sure-footedness helpful.
- YDS Class 1
- Class 1. Walking on an established path; low fall risk.
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Curated record — the classic Lukla↔EBC trek is not mapped as a single OSM route relation; geometry is a curated assembly. Overpass name queries for route=hiking returned zero classic parents (North Col 17675930 and South Col 17822898 are mountaineering, not this teahouse walk). Those col relations were not borrowed. osmRelationId is unset.
Preferred assembly (OSM highway=path|footway way-chain along Lukla → Phakding → Namche Bazaar → Tengboche → Dingboche → Lobuche → Gorak Shep → Everest Base Camp) did not yield a clean spine. A 2026-08-24 retry (bbox 27.68,86.70,28.02,86.92; Gokyo/Chukhung/Kala Patthar name-dropped; Namche footway grid skipped) walked Lukla→Phakding at 7.74 km then found no path|footway connection Phakding→Namche (straight 7.28 km; gap larger than the 1 km snap ceiling). An earlier tight-bbox network snap concatenated ~125 km of village paths and was not stored. Fallback remains a schematic polyline through those eight named places. 2-D length 42.9 km is pin-to-pin, not a walking distance. Published ~62–65 km one-way / ~130 km round trip / 12–14 days are cross-checks only, not this DataPoint. Gokyo, Three Passes, and Island Peak are out of scope.
typicalDays 4 is Math.round(lengthKm/12), a placeholder. Wikivoyage’s Everest Base Camp Trek (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Everest_Base_Camp_Trek, checked 2026-08-24, CC BY-SA) describes an eight-to-ten day walk to base camp; published 12–14 day windows include acclimatization. Those stamps are not this field.
Ascent, descent, and high/low are Copernicus GLO-30 samples at the eight schematic vertices only (copernicus-dem:glo-30, 2026-08-24) and remain provisional. DEM high 5,292 m is in the EBC band (Wikivoyage 5,380 m; Kala Patthar 5,643 m was not on this line). Cumulative ascent 2,651 m is an 8-point schematic under-count, not a walking gain. Do not treat Wikipedia/Wikivoyage elevations as this DataPoint.
Water was not mapped to named WaterSource points (no honest atFraction). Wikivoyage says not to drink untreated water; lodges sell boiled water.
Water
No water sources recorded.
Permits & fees
- Permit
- Sagarmatha NP entry + Khumbu Pasang Lhamu RM Trek-Card; TIMS contested
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Getting there
Sourced legs to the Lukla (Tenzing–Hillary) base start station — where this trail record begins. This is not a route planner: durations are approximate and marked provisional until an official transport page confirms them.
Road · Kathmandu (KTM) → Ramechhap / Manthali (RHP)
About 4.5 h. Peak-season reroute: road to Ramechhap/Manthali (~4–5 h) before the Lukla mountain flight. CAA Nepal's Ramechhap airport profile (https://caanepal.gov.np/storage/app/media/airport%20profile%202020%20updated/in%20operation/RAMECHHAP-AIRPORT.pdf, checked 2026-08-24) says most tourist-season flights to Lukla and Phaplu operate from that airport.
caanepal.gov.np · 2026-08-24 · official · provisionalAir · Ramechhap / Manthali (RHP) → Lukla (LUA)
Tara Air, Sita Air, Summit Air. About 20 min. ~20 min STOL flight, weather-dependent (VFR). CAA Nepal lists Tara Air, Sita Air, and Summit Air as scheduled operators at Ramechhap, with connectivity to Kathmandu and Lukla (same profile PDF, checked 2026-08-24).
caanepal.gov.np · 2026-08-24 · official · provisionalAir · Kathmandu (KTM) → Lukla (LUA)
Tara Air, Sita Air, Summit Air. About 30 min. ~30 min when the Kathmandu–Lukla sector is operating. Weather-dependent. Tenzing–Hillary Airport is the trailhead airfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing%E2%80%93Hillary_Airport, checked 2026-08-24).
en.wikipedia.org · 2026-08-24 · wikidata · official · provisional
No rail. The trek starts on foot at Lukla. Peak-season Lukla flights often shift to Ramechhap/Manthali; confirm the day's departure airport with the airline.
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Trailheads
- Lukla (schematic start) car-free: yes
- Everest Base Camp (schematic end) car-free: yes
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Hazards
- Altitude / acute mountain sickness above ~3,000 m is the headline hazard. Wikivoyage: even the fittest are prone; Namche sits around 3,440 m and an acclimatisation rest day is recommended; if unwell, return to lower altitude (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Everest_Base_Camp_Trek, checked 2026-08-24, CC BY-SA).
- Lukla flight delays and cancellations in poor weather; waits of days are published (same Wikivoyage page, checked 2026-08-24). CAA Nepal lists Ramechhap operations as VFR.
- Cold and remoteness on the upper valley; lodges above Tengboche often close in winter and those open are very cold (same Wikivoyage page, checked 2026-08-24).
Related links
- OfficialNTB park entry feesntb.gov.np · 2026-08-24 · official · provisional
- OfficialKhumbu Pasang Lhamu RM Trek-Cardkhumbupasanglhamumun.gov.np · 2026-08-24 · official · provisional
- OfficialNTB TIMS cardntb.gov.np · 2026-08-24 · official · provisional