Ultralight Hiker EBC Videos

As you know we were recently in Nepal, hiking the Everest Base Camp Trail (see links below). Here are a just a few snippets of video which did not seem to have a home anywhere else, but which I though .you might enjoy. (I have lots more, but I’ll try not to bore you).

Della particularly loved the donkeys. Here is a donkey train passing by in the main street at Lukla:

Another donkey train crossing a swing bridge near Phakding Nepal:

She also loved the yak trains. She just had to buy a cow bell as a souvenir. I will have to figure out how to make it ring like this at home at Jeeralang Junction. Here is one passing by near Benkar:

A popular game in the backstreets of Lukla:

Arriving in Namche. I was full of excitement from the climb (as you can see):

Most of the way you are following the Dudh Khosi River which is always too rough for fish to live in it:

Lots of wildlife along the way, like these lovely plump birds:

A rickshaw ride at night through the back streets of Kathmandu. We were following Guillaume Maurel who is in the rickshaw in front:

Here is what we were seeing. I have turned the sound off to spare you from Della’s noisy laughter and etc:

At the end of the rickshaw ride we ended up at the Yak and Yeti restaurant which is in one of the royal palaces. It is one of the best places to eat in Kathmandu (apparently in the world) though quite pricey. In Thamel we usually ate at the Green Olive.

This wonderful man, Guillaume Maurel from Mauritius (whom we met during a long wait at Lukla Airport) took us there (by rickshaw). Many thanks for a delightful night

Here we are enjoying ourselves, none the worse for wear from our trek (or rickshaw ride).

PS: If you are thinking of walking the EBC you should go soon. When I was there in 2016 you would see 1-2 helicopters a day fly by. Now there are several in the sky pretty much from dawn to dusk flying by carrying building supplies.

They are building heaps of multi-storey ‘hotels’ along the way which they clearly anticipate charging you like wounded buffaloes for (when you can stay in the existing guest houses – which are often nearly empty for literally a couple of dollars a night). Pretty much all the donkeys and yaks are carrying helicopter fuel so that when that when they have finished building these wonderful features may disappear.

Also they are building (using just private donations) a road to Lukla which will be completed in a few months. This too will change the character of the Trek, but you will be able to get there by bus, perhaps this time next year – if you dare!.

However covid may have interrupted much of what I feared in the last paragraph. In any case we are going back for another look soon (2023) if we are not too old!

For more about the EBC See:

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/12/14/ultralight-hiker-ebc-videos/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/12/01/ebc-gear-list/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/20/ebc-4-5-and-so-onwards-and-upwards/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/19/dos-and-donts-on-the-ebc-and-elsewhere/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/18/ebc-3-and-onward-to-xanadu/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/17/preventing-batteries-from-going-flat-at-high-altitudes/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/17/everest-days-1-2-lukla-to-namche-bazar/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/16/ebc-starting-out-kathmandu-to-lukla/

https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/15/9-days-trekking-the-ebc/

From my previous trip, see:

http://www.theultralighthiker.com/to-the-roof-of-the-world/