Mount Everest Climbing Expedition via Northeast Ridge in Tibet

Upon your arrival in Lhasa, our Tibetan guide will be greeting you at airport or train station with auspicious white Hada. Then you will be transferred to hotels in Lhasa. The guide will briefly introduce the itineraries and remind you about other dos and dont's for newcomers. To quickly get acclimatized to Tibetan plateau, it’s better to have a good rest in the hotel.For the following two days, we will stay in Lhasa for acclimatization.

Stay overnight in Lhasa

Our first stop is to visit the Potala Palace, the UNESCO world heritage site and the winter palace of the Dalai Lama. Walking slowly along the long stone steps to the White and Red Palaces, you can explore the former residence of Dalai Lama and his meeting room and religious chamber. You can see the gilded burial stupas of past Dalai Lamas and meditation Cave of the 33rd great king of Tibet. A bird's-eye view of Lhasa city and Lhasa valley from the top of Potala Palace will take your breath away.

After we have lunch and then we will head to holy Jokhang Temple. It's the most sacred Buddhist site in Tibet. Outside the temple, you will witness pious Tibetan pilgrims, young and old, prostrating themselves in front of Jokhang and long lines of Tibetans following the Barkhor circuit. Inside, traveling in dim butter light, you can see the statue of Buddha Sakyamuni at the age of twelve, perhaps the single most venerated object in Tibet Buddhism. You may reach the top of Jokhang Temple to enjoy the panorama of old Lhasa city and great vista of Potala Palace.

Then we may do the kora by circling the Barkhor Street with pilgrims and locals and buy some souvenirs. Never miss the chance to enjoy the tasty sweet tea in local tea house and visit Tromzikhang , the famous farm produce market.

Stay overnight in Lhasa

In the morning, you will meet the whole climbing teams, including professional mountaineers. Then they will give you the orientation and briefing on Everest Northeast Ridge climbing. Later, your mountaineering gears will be checked.

After lunch, we will visit Sera Monastery which is another one of the “great three” Gelug monasteries of Tibet. The hot attraction is the Monks debate at around 3 - 5 in the afternoon. In addition, you can tour the Tibetan religious scripture printing house; inside the monastery, you can see three sand Mandalas and colorful Rock Painting of Buddha. Have a good sleep, we will head westward to get closer to Everest.

Stay overnight in Lhasa

In the morning, drive from Lhasa to Shigatse .On the way, drive over the Gampala pass (4790 m), and you will have a glimpse of Yamdrok-tso (4400m) .The Lake is surrounded by many snow-capped mountains and in the distance you can have spectacular views of Holy Mount Nyenchen Khangsar, (7191m) the highest mountain near Lhasa.

Later, we will pass and enjoy the Korola Glacier on the roadside; At Manak Dam Lake, you can hang pray flag at Simila Mountain Pass; Then, we will arrive in Gyantse, historically Tibet's third largest city (after Lhasa and Shigatse).In Gyantse, we will visit the famous Pelkor Monastery and Gyantse Kumbum and enjoy the Far view of Gyangtse Fortress.

After one and a half driving, we arrive in Shigatse, which is the second largest city in Tibet. In Shigatse, we may visit traditional Barley Mill and view the landscape of Barley Field (in summer).

Stay overnight in Shigatse

In the morning, we will visit the home of Panchan Lama - Tashilunpo Monastery. Then, we’ll leave Shigatse after getting your Alien’s travel permit, and then drive to Lhatse, it is a small town where you can have lunch.

After that, we will pass Tsola Pass(4600M), and Gyatsola Pass(5248M). Shortly after we enter Mt. Everest National Nature Reserve, tourists can enjoy the panorama of Himalaya at Gawula Pass(5198m).Then we drive along the New zigzag road to Everest Base Camp(5200m). You can get closer to gaze at the Mt. Everest peak. The sunset of golden Everest peak if time and weather permits at the lodging area.

Stay overnight at Rongbuk monastery guest house

Rise up to catch the incredible sunrise of Mount Everest; then, we will tour the Rongbuk Monastery (5154m), the world’s highest Buddhist site. You can explore this small religious compound where nuns and monks living separately and enjoy a brief meditation inside the mysterious cave once used by Guru Rinpoche.

Then we will trek to the official Base Camp for international mountaineers and move into our own tents. During the high season of Mount Everest climbing, around April, May, Sept, you will see many yellow tents with distinct national flags hanging on the tents.

Stay overnight in Everest Base Camp (5200m)

We are expected to spend 5 days acclimatizing to the thin air at EBC. The terrain here is mostly loose hillside. We can trek back and forth to Rongbuk Monastery as a practice, around 8km. Once your body gets used to the trek in thin air and you feel confident and no problem to move higher, and then it's time to move to Interim Camp. Do drink plenty of water and eat vegetable and nutritious food in the tent.

On the last day of EBC, we will trek back to Rongbuk Monastery and have a brief praying ceremony held by the local monks in Rongbuk. It's a long tradition for Everest climbing in Tibet as it is in Nepal. Get all the gears, supplies and yak caravan, etc. prepared for the ascent.

Stay overnight in Everest Base Camp (5200m)

Interim camp is located right between Everest Base Camp (5200m) and Advance Base Camp (6400m). Normally, mountaineers will spend one night here before reaching ABC. You will trek on thick gravel and loose rock on the East Rongbuk Glacier. The moraine, massive glaciers and glacial highway will be a stunning sight. We camp in a very nice spot in the East Rongbuk Valley.

Camping in Interim Camp

Keep trekking along East Rongbuk Glaicer, we follow the miraculous glacial highway. We move upward on a surprisingly even strip of stones. Flanked by gigantic 10km's glaciers, you feel like entering a holy place, like no other on our planet.

After we make it to ABC, which is located on East Rongbuck Glacier and we pitch camps on top of rock dragged off the flanks of Chagtse (the northern peak of the North Col).

From ABC, the day-to-day arrangement varies different according to leaders of the whole team and the itinerary is subject to actual physical condition of team members and weather condition, etc. So it's virtually impossible to describe the exact daily activities. All the climbing would be flexible and conducted in the safest manner.

We will follow the rough climbing schedule below:

After arriving at ABC, we give our bodies a couple days rest before having the trial climbing to North Col. We may move higher places above ABC and travel back to sleep at ABC. Then we attempt to reach North Col (7000m) and return to ABC to sleep. The reason is to the back and forth climbing is to prepare your body for harsher environment and thinner air.

Then the next goal is to climb to the North Col and sleep there and plus further climb above 7000m before returning to ABC and get some rest.

After we get fully acclimatized, we will push our limit to prepare for summiting the Mount Everest. We will check and double check the weather and find summit window to make that happen.

It's take around4-5 days to reach the top of Mount Everest. Firstly we need to climb from ABC to North Col without using oxygen supply and move further to Camp2 (7800m) and then keep climbing to Camp3 (8300m) with the help of oxygen. Since leaving ABC, around Day4, we will have our summit day. Normally, we will rise up in the midnight and prepare our gears and oxygen to begin our climbing before 1am. Of course, all depends on current weather condition, teamwork of the climbers and tenacity and good luck. After successfully climbing over First Step (8500m), Second Step(8577m) and Third Step( 8690m), we make it to the summit of the world (8844.43m). We stay there for around one hours on Mount Everest's summit and begin to descend.

Our team will climb safely all the way down back to ABC, where we no longer need oxygen for survival.

After trekking back to EBC, our team will celebrate the remarkable achievement for summiting the Mount Everest.

Stay overnight in EBC

drive back to Shigatse.

Stay overnight in Shigatse

Today, we will drive back to Lhasa by following Yalong Valley. You can stand on the viewing platform and view the vast Yalong River bed. Finally the guide will transfer you back to your hotels in Lhasa.

Stay overnight in Lhasa

The guide will transfer you to the airport or train station and help you get on board.