This trekking features rural landscapes, high mountain country, traversing glaciers, a non-technical ice-fall to negotiate, a high (5700 metres) pass (the Teshi Lapcha) to cross, and a wonderful sense of isolation, and optionally five days of playing at high altitude, including an ascent of Yalung Ri or Ramdun.
It’s a great trip for walkers who are confident with ice-axe and crampons, and for aspiring mountaineers. It has to be done as a camping trek: between Na and Thame cause there are no lodges.
Drive to Charikot. (5 - 6 hours) Walk (1 hour) to Dolakha (though now Dolakha is reachable by road)
Trek to Singate (mainly downhill then along the valley)
Trek to Suri Dhoban (a very short morning, but an irresistible campsite at the confluence of two rivers)
Trek to Gongar (following the valley)
Trek to Simigaon (up-valley to the bridge, cross, then ascend steeply but not too painfully to Simigaon, a very pleasant village)
Trek to Dongar (initial ascent, then down to the valley-floor)
Trek to Beding (Steadily uphill following the valley)
Rest / acclimatisation at Beding. Explore the surroundings
Trek to Na
Rest / explore around Na
Trek to Tsho Rolpa (along the valley floor, then ascend the terminal moraine to reach a delightful ablation valley of the south side of the glacier. There’s a large ‘porter cabin’ under a huge overhanging rock)
Trek to the foot of the Drolumboa Ice-fall. (Initially an ascent, then drop down to the surface of the Trakarding Glacier. A hard day !)
Ascend the ice-fall. (steep, but not too difficult: with help the of Sirdar hand-lines were rigged in a couple of places to assist laden porters.) Beyond the ice-fall, continue along the Drolumboa glacier – not very steep, and short of crevasses – before turning right to make the final ascent of the Teshi Lapcha. Keep left once you’ve crossed, following rock terraces to reach a descent gulley. Camp about 2 hours below the pass (although it’s possible to camp at the pass itself – very cold and windy !))
Trek via Thengpo (first tea-house for several days ) to Thame
Trek to Namche
Trek to Phakding
Trek to Lukhla
Fly to Kathmandu If time allows, and you haven’t seen Tengboche before, this extra diversion has a lot to recommend it and further extend to Everest Base camp encompassing Gokyo Ri, Kalapathar, and Chola pass.
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