Overview
VVIP MT. EVEREST EXPEDITION is also a luxury service that gives people an opportunity to stand on top of the highest point in the world for an extra added price. If you also want to experience what it feels like to be on the highest point on the planet and have a strong economic background to compensate for your old age and your fear of risks, you can sign up for the VVIP MT. Everest Expedition service offered by Everest Expeditions Nepal. This service mainly facilitates you to experience the feeling of accomplishment that one gets while succeeding in an adventurous sport, all while providing the highest levels of safety and comfort that might imagine in such a difficult landscape.
We will also take the Normal southern route to the summit. We will fly by helicopter from Kathmandu to Namche Bazaar (3440 M) and after 2 days of rest and hike we will fly from Namche to Dingboche (4940 M) by helicopter and after 2 nights of rest, we will trek from Dingboche till to Everest base camp in according to itinerary along with your UIAGM guide and private cook, who will cook food for you as according to your order whereas for sleep we will do in Lodges. After acclimatizing at base camp for several days we will also approach the summit of Lobuche Peak (6119m) and after completion if Lobuche will return to Everest base camp.
HIGHLIGHT OF TRIP
- A climb to the top of the world
- 1 UIAGM Guide
- 3 Experienced Climbing Sherpa
- 12 Bottles of (4 Ltrs) Oxygen
- 5 Star Hotel in Kathmandu
- Lobuche Peak Climb 1 Climber: 1 Sherpa
- Single Climbing Permit
- Khumbu Icefall Climb Heli ride to & from base camp
ITINERARY-Spring 2025
DAY 1: Arrival and Departure to and from Kathmandu
Upon your arrival in Kathmandu City, a director of Everest Expeditions Nepal will receive you at the airport and accompany you to you a five star hotel. The end of the day will mark them by a welcome dinner by Everest Expeditions Nepal during which, you will be introduced to the members of the team that will accompany you to the summit of Everest.
Meals Included: Dinner
DAY 2: Rest Day in Kathmandu
On the rest day, you are allowed to rest before making preparations for the upcoming venture. Everest Expeditions Nepal will also provide you an elaborate presentation regarding the upcoming trip. You can even go for shopping and meet friends. However, If you are interested, you can go sight-seeing inside the Kathmandu Valley. The company will arrange a private vehicle for the same.
Meals Included: BLD
DAY 3: Preparation Day
On the third day, you are given an opportunity to make final preparation for your trip to Namche Bazaar. You will also be given an elaborate check list of materials and gears that you need to make sure that you possess before taking off. You can also go shopping, if you deem necessary. Any approvals relating to the trip to Everest Area will also be received by the end of that day. At the end of the day, a program will also be organized for briefing you regarding the details of upcoming expedition and roles and responsibility of the team members. You shall also be introduced with the directors and other company staffs like UIAGM Guide and potters who will accompany you to the summit.
Meals Included: BLD
DAY 4 – 5: Flight from Kathmandu to Namche (3,850m) and Acclimatization
After breakfast, a helicopter flight will also fly you and the members of your team to Namche, the gateway to Mount Everest. For your accommodations, the best hotel in Namche will also get book for you. Lunch and dinner will arrange at the very hotel. This part of the trip is also important for you considering the acclimatization of your body to the suddenly raised elevation.
Namche or Namche Bazar is a settlement located at the elevation of 3950 m above sea level. It also locates within Sagarmatha National Park which is also dub by UNESCO as the World Heritage Site. Often called the Gateway to Everest, Namche also offers a very magical view of snow clad mountain ranges. You can also observe mountain peaks like Mount Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam, Thamserku, Kongde from Namche bazar. If you are interested, you will also provide a taste of Sherpa life and culture. You can also visit Namche Monastery, Namche Museum of Sherpa Life, Namche of Local Medicinal Herb and Tibetian Herbal Medicine, etc.
Included meals: BLD
DAY 6 – 7: Heli Flight from Namche to Dingboche (4,240m) and Acclimatization
Since it is a luxury expedition, you will be provided with a helicopter for your transportation. We will not insist you on walking until it is necessary for you to walk or if you will be missing out on a very important part of the adventure.
Dingboche is another step of our journey. It is a magnificent place that offers a stunning view of the Himalayas. A hotel will be reserved for your accommodation and food will be made available according to your taste until and unless it hampers your ability to cope up with the environment you are facing. Staying in Dingboche is very important part of acclimatization. Here, your UIAGM Guide will brief you about the upcoming journey. This will help you gather some perspective regarding the adventure.
You will spend the following day also at Dingboche. You will be provided an array of activities which you can take up. If you are interested in day hikes, your entourage can accompany you to Nagarjun Hill or Chukkhung Valley for viewing the mountain peaks like Makalu, Lhotse, Chalotse, Tawache and Ama Dablam.
Overnight Stay: Hotel Bright Star
Included meals: BLD
DAY 8 :Trek from Dingboche to Lobuche (4,940m)
Following your stay at Dingboche, you will begin trekking upwards to Lobuche. Trekking is very important for getting used to the high altitude and also testing your caliber. Trekking helps you to gain vigor and maintain fitness. On the way to Lobuche, we see prayer flags fixed in the memory of Babu Tsheri Sherpa, 10 time Everest climber and Scott Fischer, an American mountaineer. Astounding views of peaks like Khumbutse, Lingtren, Pumori and Mahalangur Himal can see throughout the way. The day ends when you reach Lobuche where you will place them at a hotel.
Meals included: BLD
DAY 9: Trek from Lobuche to Gorakshep (5,150m)
The next day, you will embark on the trek to Gorakshep (5150 m). At the end of the day, after reaching Gorakshep, you will place them at a hotel. You will provide you satellite phones and necessary potters. Your team will equip it to handle every possible contingencies.
Overnight Stay: Yeti Resort Hotel
Meals Included: BLD
DAY:10 Trek from Goreksherp to Everest Base Camp (5,364m)
After spending a night at Gorakshep, your team head upwards to Everest Base Camp. It is normally a 3 hours walk but since VVIP Everest Expedition is also about comfort, we do not rush it. There will be a setup of well camp for the members and all staffs.
Overnight Stay: Tent
Included Meals: BLD
DAY 11: Resting at Everest Base Camp (5,364m)
The day after you reach the base camp is separated as resting day. There will be provision of luxury North Face tents or Kailas for you to stay. Throughout your stay in EBC, you will be provided with separate kitchen and restroom. Luxury bed, mattress, pillow, etc. will be arranged. There will be continuous availability of satellite phone service for communication. If the service doesn’t betray, there will be Wi-Fi service too. You will be provided with hot water for shower. The members of your team will provide you with whatever luxury can be provided. The food will be of your choice. Despite being the resting day, there will be some preparation for the upcoming training.
All Meals Included
DAY 12: Training at the Everest Base Camp
This day onwards, your training at the base camp begins. Your team will also help you prepare for the rigorous activity that lies ahead – the ascent to Everest. In fact, every activity that you embark on that day onward is directed to one thing and one thing only, i.e. preparing for the accent. Your guide will tutor you on how to walk on ice, how to climb ladders, how to climb across crevices and how to tackle if unfavorable situation arises. The foremost of all the training includes the icefall training. You will spend the day on Everest Base Camp.
All Meals Included
DAY 13: Ascent to Camp I (6065 m) : Climbing
As part of serious acclimatization process, you climb to Camp I. Your journey will begin very early in the morning. For reaching camp I, you will also have to cross the Khumbu Icefall. Khumbu Icefall is one of the most dangerous part of the journey. Although the crevices may look small, they can be mouth to bigger ones, so you will have to rethink your every steps and remain clipped to the fixed rope while crossing them. Climbing across the icefall is set to be a defining moment of your journey. After almost five hour trip over loose ice, going up and across the ladder and clipping off one and clipping into another rope, you will reach camp I. Your guide will also provide you instruction every step of the way and your potters will provide you with required assistance.
After reaching Camp I, the tent will be set up for you at Camp I and you will spend the rest of the day here.
DAY 14: Ascent to Camp II (6,500 m)
After that, you begin your journey to Camp II early in the morning. Your team will slowly lead you across the silent valley to the rocky patch at the side of Lhotse Wall called Camp II. It also advises that you do not camp too close to the Everest face because it tends to avalanche now and then. But you don’t really have to worry about camping. It’s your teammates’ responsibility to make sure that you are safe as you can be. You will most likely reach Camp II in daytime.
DAY 15: Acclimatization at Camp II
The following day, you will stay at camp II. Your guide will also train you for the grueling journey that lies ahead.
DAY 16: Ascent to Camp III (7,200m) and Descent to Base Camp
Your journey to Camp III will also start early in the morning and you will reach Camp III at daytime. However, you will only touch the camp III and return back to the base camp the same day. You will stay at the Base Camp for the night.
Overnight Stay : Tent in Basecamp
All Meals Included
DAY 17: Flight back to Kathmandu
You will leave the Base Camp behind and return back to Kathmandu in a helicopter. During the flight you will give them the bird eye glimpse of the mountain peaks in the Eastern region of Nepal. You will place them at a five star hotel in Kathmandu.
Overnight Stay: 5 Star Hotel in Kathmandu
Meals Included: BLD
DAY 18 – 19 – 20: Rest in Kathmandu City
You will be given time to rest. There will be a personal transportation at your disposal if you want to go sight-seeing. You can meet people if you like. We can talk to your family members and friends back at your country about the challenge you have accomplished so far. You have plenty of time to purchase things if you need them for your journey ahead.
Overnight Stay: 5 Star Hotel in Kathmandu
Meals Included: BLD
DAY 21: Flight back to Namche Bazzar
After breakfast, you will also take a helicopter flight back to Namche along with your belongings. You will stay there for the night.
Overnight Stay: Hotel Norling
Meals Included: BLD
DAY 22: Stay at Namche Bazaar
You will stay at Namche bazar for the day.
Meals Included: BLD
DAY 23: Heli Flight from Namche to Everest Base Camp (5,364m)
A helicopter will take you to the Everest Base Camp. You will rest there as same setup as before will be in Base Camp. Your team will provide with every comfort that can be achievable in that place.
All Meals Included
DAY 24: Resting at Everest Base Camp
You will rest at Everest Base Camp and prepare for upcoming training.
DAY 25: Training at Everest Base Camp
Your training will also resume at the base camp. You will once again be trained to walk on icefalls, use ladders, etc. for getting used to the actual task of climbing Mount Everest
DAY 26: Ascent from Base Camp to Camp II (6,500m)
Your team will also begin the journey upward to Camp II early in the morning. Tents will already have been set up at camp II. Your team will reach Camp II and stop there for the day.
DAY 27: Ascent from Camp II to Camp III (7,200m)
Your team will resume the journey to Camp III early in the morning. Tents and other facilities will already have set up at camp III. Your team will also reach Camp III and rest there for the day.
DAY 28: Ascent from Camp III to Camp IV (7,910m)
The team will slowly advance towards camp IV. It is highly probable that you will need oxygen cylinders to cope up thinning oxygen that come with increasing altitude. There will be enough stock of oxygen at your disposal. Even if you feel that you need oxygen supply during any point in the trip prior to this, oxygen can be readily provided. There, you will rest in camp IV for few hours.
DAY 29: Ascent to Summit of the Mt. Everest (8,848m) and return back to Camp IV
You will begin your journey towards the summit of Everest early in the morning. Sherpas and your guide will accompany you towards the summit. Each and every necessary material will be carried by your team and will be made promptly available if necessary. After a journey to the summit that is guaranteed to be grueling and tiresome, you will return back to Camp IV the same day.
DAY 30: Descent from Camp IV to the Base Camp and take Heli flight to Kathmandu
You and your team descend from the Camp IV and reach the Everest Base Camp. A helicopter will carry you from there to Kathmandu the same day. You will get receive at the airport and you will once again place them at a five star hotel. In the evening, there will be a celebration of your conquest which the managers and directors of the company will also attend.
Overnight Stay: 5 Star Hotel In Kathmandu
DAY 31 – 35:Additional Reserve Days
In case your descent from Camp IV takes some time because of unforeseen circumstances, your flight from the Base Camp to Kathmandu cannot take place as per schedule. These additional days reserves for the same. During this time, no compromise will make on your comfort. Materials have stocked such that everything will be provided to you as if there had been no delays.
DAY 36: Leisure day in Kathmandu (rest day)
You will have rest in Kathmandu Valley before you take off to your country.
Overnigh Stay: 5 Star Hotel in Kathmandu
DAY 37: Transfer to International Airport for final departure
Everest Expeditions Nepal representative will drop you to the Tribhuwan International Airport according to your flight schedule.
Meals Included: Breakfast
The Cost of the Expedition is $150,000.00 Per Person.
COST INCLUDES
- AIRPORT PICK-UP & DROP : Both International and Domestic airports pick up and drop.
- ACCOMMODATION IN KATHMAND : All required Nights in a five-star hotel under Full Board Plan in Kathmandu.
- WELCOME DINNER : Dinner at Nepalese or European Restaurant with Office Staffs and Sherpas.
- CARGO CLEARANCE : International Air cargo clearance of Member Personal Luggage & Payment of Government taxes in Nepal. *before the expedition
- PERMITS : Expedition Royalty and permit of Nepal Government to climb Mt. Everest and Lobuche Peak, Sagarmatha National Park permit, TIMS CARD & Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Entry Permit and its fee.
- SINGLE PERMIT : Single Climbing Permit for Each Member.
- LIAISON OFFICER : 1 Government Liaison officer with full equipment, Daily salary, and insurance.
- KHUMBU ICEFALL CHARGES : Khumbu Ice Fall Climbing charge to Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC).
- GARBAGE DEPOSIT : Garbage deposit fee and rubbish collection cost.
- TRANSPORTATION : As per the itinerary, all the land transportation in Kathmandu is by private vehicles.
- HELICOPTER FLIGHT : All Helicopter flights as per the Itinerary. From Kathmandu to Namche, Namche to Dingboche, During the expedition return back to Kathmandu and after Expedition from Everest BC to Kathmandu.
- INSURANCE : Medical & Emergency rescue Insurance for all involved Nepalese staff, Sherpas and UIAGM Guide during the trek and expedition.
- TREKKING : All logistic management, trek from Dingboche to Everest Base camp with UIAGM guide and private cook who will be cooking foods for a member, Overnight stay at the lodge and Member all personal belongings will be carried by porters.
- PHOTOGRAPHER : One Personal Photographer during the trip.
- FOODS : Hygienic foods during the trek and the expedition is of no limit.
- DRINKS : Hot water, tea, and coffee during the trek and Expedition are of no limit.
- MEMBER LUGGAGE : Up to 200 Kg member’s personal luggage during the trek carried by the porters.
- BASE CAMP EQUIPMENT : Personal the North Face / Kailas Tent for Member, Private Kitchen tent, Private Dining Tent, One Communication Tent, Private Shower tent, Private toilet tent, and Kitchen Utensils.
- HEATER : Heater at base camp in each tent for members.
- SOLAR / GENERATOR / LIGHT : 1 Solar panel and Generator for lights at base camp, battery charge, for laptop and other electronic devices.
- OXYGEN AND MASK REGULATOR FOR STAFFS : 4 Bottles of Oxygen to each climbing Sherpa and UIAGM guide and 1 set of Mask and regulator to each of them.
- UNLIMITED INTERNET SERVICE: THURAYA IP+ or Available Internet service at base camp on unlimited uses basis.
- WEATHER FORECAST: Weather forecast report from Meteotest, Bern (Switzerland) during the entire expedition.
- SATELLITE PHONE TO CALL : Provision of Satellite Phone to call family, friends, and Relatives 1 hour a day.
- BAR AND BAKERY FACILITY : Free bar and Free Fresh bakery at base camp for members privately.
- FRESH FOODS : Fresh fruits, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Meat, and Foods will drops by helicopter every week in base camp.
- MEMBER INSURANCE : Travel and high altitude insurance, accident, medical & emergency evacuation for climbing members.
- STAFF INSURANCE : Medical & Emergency rescue Insurance for all involved Nepalese staff during the trek and expedition.
- 12 HOURS HELI SERVICE : In case of need we have our Helicopter at priority for your safety, all day.
- MEDICAL DOCTOR : One Medical Doctor at base camp along with the comprehensive medical kit for member
COST EXCLUDES
- INTERNATIONAL AIRFARE : Flight from your home country to Nepal and Nepal to your home country.
- MEMBER PERSONAL EQUIPMENTS : Member Personal climbing equipment.
- SUMMIT BONUS AND TIPS : UIAGM Guide (USD 2000), Climbing Sherpa (USD 1500) per Sherpa and Kitchen staff’s tips (USD 800).