Everest Base Camp

 Contents Map  

 Arrival at Kathmandu (and Swayambunath)   

 Bhaktapur, city of temples

 The flight to Lukla  

 Phakding 

 Doing the Phakding Bridge 

 Namche Bazaar

 First sight of Mt Everest new

 Dingboche and Ama Dablam  

 Prisoner of the Yak 

 Lobouche to Gorak Shap

 Gorak Shap and Pumori

 Ascending Kala Pattar

  Descending into the snowstorm new

 Return to the Phakding bridge

C) Kala Pattar/Everest Base Camp

Tengboche in sunlight

(Big-horned yaks and wobbly suspension bridges )

If you arrived here via a search engine looking for information about Suspension Bridges rather than trekking, then please try Derek Locke's compendious Brantacan site (lots of links).

Also interesting are Civilzone, this Canadian site and this project site. Also see this fascinating Nepali Times article in nepalnews.com on bridge-building in remote communities. If you want a chronology of bridges go here.

(The biggest suspension bridge picture on my site is here)

Commonly Requested Images, formerly on the front page, are now here:

Trekking Sheep and Yaks

Rain Forest (Mera Peak trek)

Makalu Base Camp New

Slippers Before The Snows

(Makalu Base Camp in carpet slippers)

Stories From Life For Reading Out

New

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Rediscovering The Western Front: Visits To World War One locations

Denham Cricket Club

For personally-led treks in Scotland and Nepal, including Kala Pattar, try Richard Struthers' Safe Journeys Adventure Treks

I was brought up in Tullibody, Scotland. See Jimmy Simpson's excellent site:

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