everest basecamp & gokyo trekking

Everest Basecamp & Gokyo Trekking Rex Tsai [email protected] http://nutsfactory.net/ @ 2013-11-16 / 2013-12-05 1

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man. - George Mallory 2 The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (2001), 53.

2013/10/18-2013/11/3 Kala Pattar Gokyo (via Cho La) Everest Base Camp 14 18 Cho La Y Gokyo 6

Gurung Acme Treks & Expedition Pvt.Ltd. Jyatha, Thamel, KTM, Neapl. Tel: +977-1-4218974. Cell: +977-9808353902, +977-9841414003. http://www.acmetrek.com Executive Director: Bhola Gurung 7

Guide and Porter 35 USD/Day 490 Kathmandu/Lukla 305 Kathmandu/Lukla 102 TIMS Card 10 8

Kathmandu Lukla Porter Kumar Gurung Porter Tea House 9

18 20 ~ 25kg Porter shelters 10

Everest Base Camp Kala Pattar Gokyo (via Cho La) 11

(km) (m) (m) DAY0 2013/10/17 Taipei Kathmandu - - - DAY1 2013/10/18 Lukla Phakding 2646 6 393 355 DAY2 2013/10/19 Phakding Namche 3426 13 1142 279 DAY3 2013/10/20 Namche () 3381 > 10 682 602 DAY4 2013/10/21 Namche Tengboche 3851 9.2 913 436 DAY5 2013/10/22 Tengboche Dingboche 4315 14 1077 496 DAY6 2013/10/23 Dingboche Chhunkung Dingboche 4323 10.4 601 455 DAY7 2013/10/24 Dingboche Lobuche 4923 9.4 883 140 DAY8 2013/10/25 Lobuche Gorak Shep / EBC 5285 12.1 760 416 DAY9 2013/10/26 Gorak Shep Upper Pangboche 4002 18.5 332 1380 DAY10 2013/10/27 Upper Pangbouche Luza 4320 14.1 1120 736 DAY11 2013/10/28 Luza Gokyo 4750 9.5 678 181 DAY12 2013/10/29 Gokyo / Gokyo Ri Dhole 4038 13.7 999 1033 DAY13 2013/10/30 Dhole Namche 3453 11.9 606 1117 DAY14 2013/10/31 Namche Lukla 2577 12.9 427 12 1083

13 Gokyo Ri

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Lonely Planet Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya Guide ( , 9781864502312) Lonely Planet Nepal (9781740596992) Nepal Country Guide (9781741797237) Trekking Nepal (9780898866131) Everest: A Trekker's Guide (9781852846800) (9789572080207) (9789571346359) 15

Kev Reynolds Kev has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Cicerone since the 1970s, producing 50 books, including guides to five major trekking regions of Nepal, and to numerous routes in the European Alps and Pyrenees, as well as walking guides for Kent, Sussex and the Cotswolds and he has several more books in the pipeline. http://www.kevreynolds.co.uk/ http://www.cicerone.co.uk/author/detail.cfm/author/1286/name/kev-reynolds 16

Everest: A Trekker's Guide Series: Cicerone International Trekking Guides Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited; 4 edition (February 15, 2012) ISBN-10: 1852846801 by Kev Reynolds 17

Trekking in the Himalaya Lonely Planet Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited (November 15, 2013) ISBN-10: 1852846054 by Kev Reynolds 18

Nepal Map Publisher Pvt. Ltd. Himalayan Map House http://himalayan-maphouse.com/ 1: 50,000 ~ 1: 125,000 RS 250-750 Available in Kathmandu Thamel , Namche Bazaar OpenStreetMap / OpenCycleMap 19

OpenStreetMap OpenCycleMap OpenStreetMap ( OSM) 2004 Steve Coast Wiki OSM GPS OpenCycleMap OpenStreetMap NASA / SRTM - http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Viking GPX JOSM - Garmin http://bit.ly/1fGFNpS http://openstreetmap.tw/ 20

Icebreaker Bodyfit 200 Leggings ( ) Icebreaker Bodyfit 260 LS Crewe (baselayer) Patagonia Capilene 4 Expedition Weight Crew ( , baselayer) Marmot Vars Hoody ( , ) Mountain Hardwear Dome Perignon ( , ) Mountain Hardwear Heracles Glove ( , ) Montane eVent Air Jacket ( , ) Mountain Hardwear Nilas Jacket ( , ) - 1211 Softshell Globe Spirit (Sing Tex/Globe Tex) 21

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-1 -10. Tea-house style Trekking 24

Tea house style trekking 25

Nepal Telecom Ncell GSM / 3G GSM / GPRS One passport size photo Namche Some tea house Lukla (cafes) 26

Facebook Facebook, 27

(Acute Mountain Sickness) Khumbu Cough 28

Contec CMS 50D+ http://blog.nutsfactory.net/2013/06/01/contec-cms-50d/ 30

5000 4000M 88% 5000M 80% 6000M 75% 5% * Paul & Fi's Mount Everest Climb http://www.adlers.com.au/oxygen.php * "Normal" Oxygen Saturations at Various Altitudes http://www.high-altitude-medicine.com/SaO2-table.html Ref High-Altitude Medicine - Wilderness Medicine February 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0323009506 31

10/23 4320 10/25 5000, 80%, 10/26 65% ( ) 32 10/26 Kala Pattar 80%.

VO2max, SpO2. p287 p297 - p299 33

Diamox (Acetazolamide), Viagra 34

(Khumbu Cough) (Balaclava) Advair https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.399021234584.167002.202441799584&type=3 35

D1 - D2 D3 D4 ( ) 38

/ Fishtail Air Simrik Airlines Air Dynasty Mountain Helicopters 4200USD. ( ) 500-700 USD Sunrise Lodge Khumbu Resort 40

iPhone 41

- Tihar aka Deepawali aka - The festival of Lights! 42

( ) (30kg in Nepal) * Trekking Ethics | Internationational Porter Protection Group http://ippg.net/trekking-ethics/ 43

Porters Problems http://ippg.net/porters-problems/ 44

Lukla ( ) [1] [1] http://www.backpackers.com.tw/forum/showthread.php?t=1046564 45

Open Street Map http://www.slideshare.net/chihchun/osm-20130804141619 Contec CMS 50D+ http://blog.nutsfactory.net/2013/06/01/contec-cms-50d/ ISBN 978-986-120-858-9 46