The Best Rock Climbing Routes in Sagarmatha

After spending about 10 days getting here and acclimatising, today is when your efforts are really rewarded and the mountaineering phase of your trip begins. Get started by climbing moraine and scree (not as bad as it sounds!) for about an hour and a half to reach a boulder field at the foot of the Mera Glacier....

Although the distance and height gain are not huge on this day, the altitude makes today a tough one. The reward for your efforts will be a clear view of 5 of the World’s 6 highest mountains, and reaching one of the most spectacular campsites you will ever stay at....

Wake up at 2.00 am (this never gets any more pleasant no matter how many times you do it!) and start getting fluids and food into you. Once hydrated and with a few calories inside your belly get out of the tent, don crampons, rope up and get ready to begin your summit bid....

A fabulous day from start to finish, this is what adventuring in the Himalayas is all about! Begin the day before daybreak and make the gentle climb up to the foot of the glacier below the Amphu Labsta....

Get up at 2.00am and shove some fluids and calories down. Crawl out of your tent and start hiking up the trail which leads up scree towards the Island Peak Glacier....

Mt. Everest was first summited by Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealander Edmond Hillary with a British expedition in 1953. They used the South Col route. At that time the route had only been attempted twice by Swiss teams in the spring and autumn of 1952....