14 Days Everest Base Camp Trek Guide / Cost / Itinerary 2017

14 Days Everest Base Camp Trek Guide / Cost / Itinerary 2017
Just returned from Everest Base camp first week of a December ( Nepal Side ) and must say that it was an amazing experience. Most people fly into Lukla to start the trek but our team trekked from Shivalaya which is much lower down at approx 1700 M. We trekked for nearly 7 & a half days before reaching Lukla covering approx 20 - 22Km per day. Quite a strenuous climb as we were going both up and down over ridges and dropping into valleys to cross rivers & gorges. ( not like Kilimanjaro where you predominately trek continuously upward ). It was great trekking through the more remote areas before reaching the main tourist trail past Lukla. This also gave better opportunity to acclimatize to the altitude ( climbing high each day and then dropping lower to sleep ). It is incredibly important not to try and rush the acclimatization process, we noticed many people suffering with AMS from 3500 - 4000 M and above. We also trekked from Gorak Shep ( 5100m ) to the summit of Kala Patthar ( 5545m ) which is higher that Base Camp and gives better views of Everest. Gorak Shep is the last village before base camp and the overnight stop either before reaching base camp or summit Kala Patthar the following morning. It should also be noted that the Helicopters will not fly in to evacuate at night.( we had one member of the team suffering AMS on returning from base camp but we managed to recover him to Gorak Shep and he improved over night before descending lower. Altogether we covered approx 300km from our start point and returning to Lukla to fly out. Thank your for your best guiding mr Sanjib you are best guide in in World
we are difintly back to Nepal