Accommodation
You'll get the best available tea house for nine days on your luxury Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek with Adventure Nepal Eco Treks. You'll get a twin sharing room during the trek
You'll be accommodated in regularly cleaned rooms where you can expect thoroughly washed bed sheets and pillowcases. You'll get clean blankets and cozy spaces for overnight accommodations.
Please carry a sleeping bag for additional comfort while sleeping. Upon request, Adventure Nepal Eco Treks also provides sleeping bags for the clients joining fixed departure Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return in 2023.
Other services like Airlink and Everest link wifi, hot water shower, hot drinking water, and electricity to recharge power banks and mobile phones cost USD 5 at most. Since this is a luxury trek with helicopter return, we provide these services for free so that you can also benefit from these all-inclusive services at every tea house.
Meals
Everest Base Camp Trek to Gorak Shep to Lukla or Kathmandu offers you the best meals at every tea house. As a trekker on this trek, you'll enjoy luxury meals till Gorak Shep.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner include Nepali and western cuisines. You can have toast, bread, omelet, honey & butter, porridge, oatmeals, muesli, chapati, beans, tea, coffee, hot milk, lemon ginger tea, and more items for breakfast.
For lunch and dinner, you can order dumplings, fried rice, noodles with tuna or omelet, pizza, burgers, sandwiches & fries, Dal Bhat with cooked vegetables, spaghetti, Tenduk, Thukpa, Steaks, and much more.
Trek difficulty
Everest Base Camp Trek and fly back by Helicopter from Gorak Shep is a moderate-grade trek. Some trekkers even find it easy to trek too. But, the only issue you'd have throughout this trek is high altitude.
Everest Base Camp Trekking is one of the most accessible treks, except for parts like Tengboche ascend, Thugla Pass, and from Lobuche to Gorak Shep on Khumbu Glacier moraines.
With our experienced guides and two acclimatization stops, you'll complete the hike to Gorak Shep with no issues. On top, you'll fly on a helicopter to Lukla or Kathmandu while returning. It gives you the most lavish return one could ask on Everest Trek.
Everest Base Camp Trek Physical fitness and Preparation
Everest Base Camp Trek is doable by experienced and novice trekkers. However, if this is your first trek on high-altitude terrain, you must at least prepare for this for a few months before the EBC Base Camp Trek starts.
Physical fitness is crucial to hike significantly for multiple hours and keeping pace with groups. Your fitness level determines the success of your Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek.
Cardio, mini-marathons, short and long hikes, and high altitude simulator checks are a few of the best training for this trek. Running on the treadmill, swimming, and doing gym workouts also helps you gain physical fitness.The best physical shape, adequate preparations, and mentality make it easier for you to scale Everest Base Camp.
Everest Trek Permits
For a luxury trek to Everest Base Camp and Helicopter Return, you must have two Everest Trek Permits. One is Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit, and the second is Sagarmatha Conservation Area Permit.
These essential Everest Trek permits cost USD 50 together and are included in the Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return Package. Your trek guide verifies these two permits at two different trekker checkposts at Monjo and Lukla.
Trekker’s safety and security
Adventure Nepal Eco Treks commits 100% to our valued client's health, safety, and security throughout our every trekking in Nepal. High-altitude trekking is often associated with various risk factors.
Altitude sickness, minor injuries, fractures, food poisoning, and multiple factors may come up in some situations. Hence, to deal with such, we employ expert trekking guides with some high-altitude medicine and first aid knowledge.
You'll have a safe trek experience on the entire Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek. Your trekking gear and personal stuff will be 100% intact and secure with assistance from our trek porters.Also, you'll get immediate helicopter evacuation at lower altitudes or even to Kathmandu during medical emergencies and other situations.
Travel Insurance on Everest Base Camp Trek
Adventure Nepal Eco Treks requests every client joining fixed departure Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return to purchase decent international travel insurance that covers your helicopter evacuation costs.
With travel insurance, you can worry less about the risks associated with hiking in the Everest region. And even if you fall sick during this trek, your insurance covers all the medical and hospital bills. And during the worst-case scenario, by any means, if you need a helicopter evacuation, with proof of travel insurance, a helicopter comes to pick you up right on time.
We only insure our trek guides and porters and not our clients. But upon request, we can also recommend some trusted travel insurance partners in Nepal. But we urge you to purchase one back home before flying to Nepal.
Trek guide’s and porter’s safety
We value our trek guides and porters, and hence, we commit 100% to their safety and security throughout our treks. We also provide industry standard salary, complements, health insurance, and other benefits.Our trek guides and porters do get helicopter rescue during emergencies.
Baggage and weight limits for airlines and porters
Since you'll take Kathmandu to Lukla or Ramechhap to Lukla to start the luxury Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek, you can only carry a backpack of up to 15 kg.
The airlines allow passengers to carry 5 kg in a handbag and 10 kilograms in a backpack or 15 kg in a single bag. However, if your baggage weight crosses the limit, you need to pay the fare for extra weight. The trek cost doesn't include your baggage cost for being overweight.
Once you purchase Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return from Adventure Nepal Eco Treks, you'll get one trek porter for free. A porter carries your backpack and trek gear so you can hike with only essential items in a tiny bag.
You can share a trekking porter with another trekker, and the combined weight you can assign to a porter is 25-30 kg. If your backpack weight exceeds the limit, you need to hire the trekking porter and pay USD 22- 25 daily, including the tip at the end.Hence, we recommend you pack only the essential gear for nine days of Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek.
Gears to pack
For nine days of Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek, you'll need decent trekking gear and gadgets. But you can still keep the backpack minimal by carrying only essentials.One down jacket, a few fleece layers, a few Windstopper, gloves, woolen hats, neck buffs, face masks, and a thermostat can be good upper body wear.
You can carry two to three quick-drying hiking pants, trousers, underwear, socks, boots, and knee-support sleeves for the lower body. A sleeping bag is a must for warm and cozy sleep, as tea houses only provide one blanket for one trekker.
You can carry gadgets like power banks, mobile phones, cameras, additional batteries, chargers, headlamps, swiss knives, a kindle, and some notebooks and pens.
Sunglass, face creams and lotions, sunscreen, lip balms, moisturizers, and body spray are enough to keep your skin sound. Also, toiletries and wet wipers can be handy during loose motions and even at tea houses at higher altitudes.With these gears, you can complete Everest Base Camp Luxury Trek comfortably.
Flight delays and transportation
For Everest Base Camp Trek you'll take flights from Kathmandu to Lukla and Lukla to Kathmandu. And on the 9th day, from Gorak Shep, you'll fly on a helicopter to Lukla or Kathmandu.
Since Lukla's weather can change with no notice, there's no certainty for flights on time. But, in Autumn and Spring, you can expect stable temperatures at Lukla airport. Except for a few days, you can expect on-time flights to Lukla and Kathmandu.
The helicopter flight from Gorak Shep takes off even with a slight change in weather. However, the temperature remains stable throughout the day in Spring and Autumn, which is also ideal for helicopter take off.
Upon arrival and departure, you'll get a complimentary airport-to-hotel and hotel-to-airport pickup and drop service from us.
Respect to Sherpa culture and biodiversity
Everest region is rich in Sherpa culture as well as biodiversity. And as a trekker, you must respect and value these treasures of the Everest region.
The Buddhist Mani Wheels, prayer flags, Sherpa lifestyles, traditions, and their attires keep you engaged. And while trekking, you'll hike through the lush subalpine vegetation, including hemlock, birch, juniper, pine, and rhododendron.
Also, you'll hike on the shore of Dudh Koshi or follow the trekking route along the river to Namche. All these elements make your Everest Base Camp Helicopter Trek serene and blessed.
Please pass a smile to the locals or even greet "Namaste" to them if you can. And in return, you'll also get a warmly welcoming gesture from these people.Don't tease wild animals and yaks while hiking. You may take photographs, but don't attempt to harm them.
Eco Trekking with Adventure Nepal Eco Treks
Our name indicates that we commit 100% to sustainable and eco-trekking in Nepal. Every trekking in Nepal has to be eco-friendly and do no harm to the environment and the local community. Our Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return impacts the environment and wild animals very little.
Instead of doing a two-way helicopter flight, we first hike up to the base camp and take the helicopter only during the return. In this way, there'll be less carbon emission from nature. While trekking for nine days, we'll also contribute some to local trek guides, porters, and tea houses that directly or indirectly give back to the community.
Weather, Temperature and Best time
Everest Base Camp Trek and flying back by Helicopter is ideal during Autumn and spring. This trek is also doable in winter if you can bear the cold at high altitudes.Not only for trekking but for the magical helicopter flyout experience from Gorak Shep, it also elevates during the crisp weather with ideal weather conditions.
The best time for Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return is the clear outlook, crystal clear viewing experience, rain-free days, vibrant landscapes, serene vegetation, and stable temperature and weather from March to May and September to November.
The temperature at the base camp during these months averages approximately 15 degrees during the daytime. And the temperature drops below freezing at nighttime at the base camp. Early Spring and late Autumn are pretty chilly, but the rest of the months remain warmer.
However, lower regions remain warmer during these months. Also, the wind speed during these months remains calmer and won't be that freezing during the hike.
Tip to Trek Guides and Porters
We encourage you to tip some money to our trek guides and porters at the end of the luxury Everest Base Camp Trek and fly back by helicopter. Once you reach Lukla with the trek crew, or if you pass on an aircraft before them, you must tip them some amount.
There's no standard amount you must tip to trek guides and porters, but almost every trekker practices the 10% tipping to trek crews. Please give a tip to our trek guides and porters at least 10% of the total Everest Base Camp Trek cost.
Trek guides and porters do their best to make your trip successful and bring you back safely to Lukla and Kathmandu. And they expect some tips from you as well. Your bonus motivates them further to keep up the excellent work in the Himalayas and guide the adventurous trekkers in the coming days.