The Everest Base Camp trek is widely heralded as the best trek in the world and for good reason; it’s beautiful, challenging yet achievable, and incredibly scenic. Roughly 40 miles/70 km you will trek through lush green pastures, blossoming Rhododendron forests and the most spectacular mountain terrain in the world.

The pinnacle of the CTSS EBC trek is Everest base camp proper at 17,600ft/ 5,500m where, being affiliated with an Everest climbing expedition, you are able to enter and spend 2x nights within Base Camp proper, something the vast majority of trekkers never experience. This allows you to get a sense of the Everest base camp scene and community and what goes into an Everest expedition. If you are feeling good you have the added option to scale Kala Pathar the morning you leave base camp for stunning views of the Everest Massif, Lhotse and Nuptse.

Additional Nights at Base Camp: If friends and family want to stay at base camp longer than 2x night we can add additional nights for $350 per person, per night.

Staying at Base Camp throughout entire expedition: If family and friends want to stay longer than a week we will need to put them on a Nuptse climbing permit which allows them to stay at base camp throughout the expedition. Please talk to us about this as it is no problem to organize and we often have people stay throughout the expedition as support.

Rugged Luxury Everest Base Camp Trek & Stay and the Gokyo Lakes Extension are also available to family and friends.

If your family and friends are looking for a little more of a mountaineering experience they are welcome to join you on your acclimatisation climb of Lobuche Peak. Lobuche is a jewel of the Himalaya and arguably offers perhaps the best summit view in the world – taking in the Everest/Lhotse/Nuptse massif, Makalu, Pumori, Ama Dablam, Cho Oyu, Thamserku, and many others.

Lobuche is a good first Himalayan climb, with steep fixed-line climbing on rock, snow, and ice as well as excellent training for taller mountains such as Aconcagua, Ama Dablam, and Manaslu.

To consider an ascent of Lobuche, participants should be familiar with crampon and ice axe technique and have used a harness before. We will run a training refresher at Lobuche base camp before the ascent.

Mountaineering friends and family may also like to consider our 3-Peaks climb and trek which takes in three legendary peaks of the Khumbu: Lobuche East, Pokalde, and Island Peak – climbs which undoubtedly offer some of the best summit views in the world!
Starting alongside you on Lobuche, they will then accompany you into Everest base camp and enjoy 2 nights living the true Everest experience with the Everest summit team including partaking in our ice climbing clinic on the Khumbu Glacier.
Following their stay at EBC they will split off, trekking over to the remote Pokalde to begin ascending their second Himalayan peak.
Finally they cross into the famed Imja Tse valley for their final ascent of world famous Island Peak.

3-Peak ascent participants should be familiar with crampon and ice axe use. We will run a training refresher at Lobuche base camp before the ascent to dust off any cobwebs.