venturing above 5000m in the high Himalayas, you enter the bitterly harsh lands of permanent glaciers and their gravelly moraines, where the thin air and significant altitude gradually slow you down draining your energy with every step you take… from
Everest memorials – #HimalayaDailyBites
with every step hiking higher and higher up Khumbu Valley, the Himalayan mountain views become ever more outstanding and bewildering. leaving Dingboche village (4410m), you will be trekking on a wide trail winding high above a desolate huge valley sculpted
Chhukung – #HimalayaDailyBites
daylight comes with a spectacular view right outside your window: Ama Dablam’s snow-wrapped peak glowing in the morning sun. today’s acclimatization walk will take you on a fairy tale hike among barren moraine slopes accompanied by stupendous views of high
Dingboche – #HimalayaDailyBites
hiking above 4000m in the high Himalayas, you’ll be making your way through alpine wastelands accompanied only by grey boulders, dwarf vegetation sticking close to the ground, bitterly cold winds and silent snowcapped giants towering high above you… shortly after
Ama Dablam – #HimalayaDailyBites
from sunrise till sunset, between Tengboche and Dingboche, your eyes will be irresistibly attracted by the stunning snowcapped pyramid of Ama Dablam glowing in the sun as your ever-present companion all through the day. famous for its exquisite beauty, Ama
Pangboche – #HimalayaDailsBites
a picturesque trail through dense rhododendron forests dripping with Spanish moss leads to the highest suspension bridge in Khumbu Valley, dangling in the ever-thinner air at roughly 3900m. recently built above a previous bridge destroyed by a landslide during the
Tengboche – #HimalayaDailyBites
roughly halfway to Everest Base Camp, after an arduous push up a steep spur covered with picturesque pine and rhododendron trees, you will eventually be greeted by an exquisitely decorated kani gate marking the entrance to the small settlement of
Tengboche Gompa – #HimalayaDailyBites
as evening sets in, a deep eerie sound penetrates the silence, like a calling from beyond this earthly world…it is the Tibetan Buddhist conch shell trumpet used to call both monks and laymen alike to prayer, whose penetrating sound symbolizes
Himalayan highway – #HimalayaDailyBites
as you hike up Khumbu’s many trekking trails, little do you imagine that the very footpaths you are stepping on are centuries old trading routes and herding tracks, used by countless generations of traders, pilgrims, porters, government officials and herders,
Khumjung Gompa and its yeti scalp – #HimalayaDailyBites
set right at the very base of Khumbila (5761m), in an atmospheric small square, hemmed by a grove of peace-inducing pine trees, and with a spectacular backdrop of high snowcapped peaks, Khumjung’s Samten Choling Gompa is Khumbu’s second oldest monastery