5h walking
3000 miles
2860 meters
Lukla or gibraltar
Lukla airport
About two weeks! You have to hike from village to village and it is important to take your time so that your body can acclimatize to the decrease in oxygen. It is quite the hike! If you go too quickly you can get sick.
Phaplu Airport - Phaplu, Nepal (PPL / VNPL).
it is loacted in Nepal, Namchhe Bazzar at Lukla Airport.
The Everest Base Camp Trekking on the south side is one of the most popular trekking routes in the Himalayas and is visited by thousands of trekkers each year. Trekkers usually fly from Kathmandu to Lukla to save time and energy before beginning the trek to this base camp. However, trekking to Lukla is possible. There are no roads from Kathmandu to Lukla and as a result, the only method of transporting by plane.
The most dangerous airport is Lukla today because Juanco Yrausquin because SABA closed on on the shortest runway. Lukla's runway is 2x longer than SABA's runway but surrounded by mountains.
Nepal Tenzing-Hillary Airport (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK), also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Province No. 1, eastern Nepal.
Lukla airport is the nearest on to Mount Everest.
Lukla is the nearest airport to Mount Everest. From here you would hike to base camp over a period of time, the tourist takes around 7 to 10 days taking in all the sights that they have come to see.