Island Peak Climbing

Our airport representative will be in Kathmandu international airport with your name card or our agency's name card. When confirmation of your arrival is done, you will drive from airport to Kathmandu Hotel. After check in, you will be freshen up and go to visit agency office to collect flights tickets and other information. If you have missed to bring any trekking equipment then you can buy just next to hotel. You will have welcome dinner in the night and drop back to the hotel and overnight at Kathmandu hotel.

Take a 45min flight to Lukla early in the morning, in which you will get the first glimpse of the mountains. Porters will be introduced at the airport. Then, after breakfast, you will trek towards Phakding through the Dudh Kosi Valley crossing few local style suspension bridges. You will admire the mountains and the green valley, colorful prayer flags and stacks of Mani stones on the way. After this 2-3 hour trek, you will have the rest of the day to explore the village in Phakding.

You will start the 3rd day of 19 days trek by crossing the suspension bridge, and walk through Benkar, enjoying the wonderful waterfall. After 5 min walk, you will see the fabulous mountain called Thamserku. Then you cross another bridge and walk through undulating trail to reach Manjo and then the Khumbu valley. You will have lunch at Jorsalle and walk gradual up and down. Today you cross 5 bridges in total. Then you will follow the Riverbank. Crossing the last bridge, you will climb up gradually to Namche Bazaar. Overnight at teahouse/lodge.

Today you may rest or hike through the village of Khunde and Khumjung. Khumjung is the largest village of Khumbu region. After having lunch you will hike back to Namche Bazaar.

Our guide will then take you down through the Khumjung community and move to the major path to Everest. You will walk further to Trashinga and then move down to go across the Dudh Koshi at Phunke Tenga(3,250 m.). In the daytime, it is a wide and vertical ascend through Fir, Black Juniper, Pine, Rhododendron forest and reach Tengboche monastery. Here we can see gigantic peaks like Ama Dablam, Kantega and Mount Everest. You will stay at teahouse in Tengboche.

An easy descent through Rhododendron forest and across a bridge over Imja Khola to Pangboche. The route will continue to Pheriche, for a 3-4 hour trek in total. There is a rudimentary hospital run by Himalayan Rescue Association in Pheriche. It only opens in peak seasons (March-May and November-December). You will spend the night in Pheriche.

An 800m climb will take us to Nagarjun peak at 5000m altitude. You will enjoy some good views of the mountains including Mt. Makalu 5th highest mountain in the world. This hike usually helps with acclimatization. There are chances to see snow leopard on this hike. Once you arrive there, you will admire the view and descend down to Pherice.

The gradual climb to Lobuche will be pleasant as you will get closer and closer to the snow clad giants. After a 45-60min hike, you will reach Thukla. There, you will make a stop for food and continue up to a flat area where several memorials dedicated to the climbers who died on Everest are erected. Then, you will climb out of the valley and descend to the yak pastures at Lobuche.

This day you will start trek from Lobuche 4910m towards Gorakshep 5164 m, where you can find the nearest teahouse from EBC. You will get Gorakshep about lunch time. After having lunch, our guide will lead you up to Everest Base Camp (5364 m), then return to Gorakshep for staying overnight as there are no teahouses in Everest Base Camp.

You will notice when up in the Base Camp that the Everest is not completely visible. From Gorak Shep, you will walk down, up and up again to Kalapathar. You will climb up to Kalapather either sunrise or sunset time. It will take 1.5 to 2 hours. You will have the best view of Mount Everest, Nuptse and Changtse with a little of Lhotse from here. Then you will return to Gorakshep for food and descend to Dingboche.

From Dingboche to Chukkung, the trek will be about 2 hour long and easy. Chukkung is a beautiful valley nestled between mountains like Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam, Imja Tse etc. You will appreciate a really good and close view of these mountains and their glaciers. The river Imja Khola runs past the Chukkung village where you will be lodging. Overnight at Chhukung.

After breakfast, you will trek towards south, turn east and enter the main valley. You will walk along the stream and pass Imja and Lhotse glacier moraine before reaching the valley where you will camp in tents. From the camp you will see the southeastern face of the Imja Tse (Island Peak).

You will walk toward the summit around 01:00 to 02:00am. It will take about 2 hours to reach the High camp, then you will climb the rock gully. You will follow a ridge-line to the summit glacier and climb up a steep snow slope to reach the summit. There, you will get an excellent view of the mountains. After spending some time there, you will go back to high camp to base camp and all the way back to Chhukung.

Just in case of bad weather or any health problem, you will use this day on the base camp or further down on the trail. Whenever you may need this buffer day. If you do not use your buffer day, you will the trekking finish one day earlier. It can be useful in case of unstable weather condition for Lukla to Kathmandu flight.

From Chhukung, you will walk down towards Pangboche and take the same trail you took up to descend and then climb up again to reach Tengbochhe. After this 4-5 hour trek, you will spend the night in Tengboche.

Return journey will be much easier as the walk drops heights every few hours, you will walk downhill with few short ups to Pangboche and then to a bridge with two hours climb to Tengboche. Stop for lunch in Tengboche, then continue to Namche Bazaar. Over night at Namche Bazaar.

Morning walk leads back to Phakding and from here back to Lukla with last and final climb of 19 days EBC trekking in Nepal, then on reaching Lukla, you will celebrate the last night trek dinner with fellow trekkers and staff.

You will wake up early in the morning and get ready for the entrance of plane for returning to Kathmandu. Then, you will be transferred back to your hotel. Remaining day to explore in Kathmandu, overnight at hotel in Kathmandu.

And here you are done with your 19 days of journey in Nepal. And then as per your flight timings our staff will transfer you to Tribhuvan International Airport for your international departure.