Everest Basecamp Trek: via Gokyo and Cho La

By Bo Belvedere Christensen

This book on the very popular Everest Trek via Gokyo and the Cho La pas is an image based narrative by mountain climber and guide Bo Belvedere Christensen.
It's is based on a trek that he led during an autumn trip and the experiences that met him and his group during this beautiful trek through one of The Worlds most amazing mountain regions.

The descriptions are based on the authors extensive experience with the area since arriving here first time in 1988 to climb Ama Dablam, and since spending several years in total in the Everest region.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Feb 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9788743081517

Bo Belvedere Christensen

The author is a mountaineer, climber guide, and photographer who has spent more than 45 years climbing in the Himalayas, Africa, The Alps, The Andes and many other places. He has summited 3 peaks above 8000 meter, 3 above 7000 meter and more than 20 above 6000 meter. He guides both mountaineering expeditions and trekking trips. Beeing a keen and capable photographer he always documents his trips in both images and video and have so far published 20 books on climbing, trekking and mountaineering and had all his larger movie projects shown on national television.

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Route diagram

This is the images and stories from a trekking trep to Everest Basecamp.

The route we used took us to from the airstrip at Lukla to Namche Bazar. From here up to Thame for acclimatization and afterwards up through the Gokyo valley, during this climbing to several small high points for further acclimatization.

This made us ready for the long day passing the Cho La and descending down into the Khumbu valley and in the end to Everest Basecamp.

After basecamp the route followed the traditional route to Everest BC passing Pheriche and Tengboche before returning to Namche Bazar further on to Lukla before finally flying back to Kathmandu.

The route is detailed in the map on the next page though other side treks that we didn’t do are also marked.

In the back of the book you will find a day by day listing of the places visited and where we slept together with an altitude diagram.

Lukla airport

Coming to Kathmandu there is a lot to see but as we had some days at the end of the trip in the Capital of Nepal, we skipped most of the sightseeing to the end of our trip.

Therefore, we flew to the small airstrip at Lukla as soon as possible, which wasn’t at all sure to be. Heavy cloud cover in the mountains almost prevented us coming to Lukla on the first possible day. But a short improvement in the weather conditions allowed us to reach into the mountains.

From here I usually take a relatively short trekking day to one of the small villages of Mungo or Phakding. Landing in Lukla early