Everest Region — See the World's Highest Peak

The Everest region — known locally as the Khumbu — is home to the highest point on Earth, and there are two genuinely different ways to experience it. Most of our clients choose the Everest mountain flight: a roughly one-hour scenic flight from Kathmandu that loops within view of Everest and its neighbouring peaks before returning the same morning, with no trekking, permits or particular fitness required. For travellers with the time and fitness for something more serious, the Everest Base Camp trek is the best-known trekking route in the world — a 12 to 14 day round trip from Lukla, climbing steadily through Sherpa villages to the foot of the mountain itself.

Along the trek, Namche Bazaar serves as the region's main hub, a terraced market town built into a natural amphitheatre where trekkers pause to acclimatise, while Tengboche Monastery — the largest in the Khumbu — offers one of the route's most photographed views, framed against Everest and Ama Dablam. Most trekkers turn back at Kala Patthar, a viewpoint above base camp that actually offers a better look at Everest's summit than base camp itself. Whether by flight or on foot, this entire region sits within Sagarmatha National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is inseparable from the Sherpa culture and mountaineering history that define it.