At Base Camp everything is freshly prepared as can be by a cook who is there to make sure you get good wholesome food and plenty of it. While at this camp you are advised to eat and drink as much as possible because you will need to pile on the calories for the long hard days ahead.
Main Food would include:
Local Fresh Vegetables
Pasta
Salads
Rice
Spaghetti Bolognaise
Omelette
Potato dishes
Eggs on Toast
Rice Pudding
Bacon
Chips
Lasagne
Porridge
Muesli
Dal bhat (steamed rice and lentil soup)
Cheese
Olives
Gherkins
Pate
Crackers
Snacks:
Cadbury Fudge Bars
Fizzy Cola Bottles
Tangfastics
Tunnocks Bars
Liquorice Wands
Chilli and other types of Peanuts
Pork Scratching
Crisp
Mocha Sachets
Chocolate
There is no food to be found on Mount Everest to eat but there is plenty of snow and ice that is used to melt for drinking.
There is no food to be found on Mount Everest to eat but there is plenty of snow and ice that is used to melt for drinking.
There is no food to be found on Mount Everest to eat but there is plenty of snow and ice that is used to melt for drinking.
Higher up the mountain most of the cooking is done on a gas stove. Usually just to heat food up and melt snow for drinks. At Base Camp a large gas oven or open fire would be used.
If you join an expedition company to climb with Mount Everest the cost of the food would be included within the price.
Teams on Mount Everest use local food where possible brought in by there cook. They also ship tons of food over from there own country.
Climbers will not find any food on the slopes of Mount Everest during their climb. The expedition that they are climbing with would have brought all the food they need with them.
There is no food.It is way to cold
Nearly all the food that climbers eat while on Mount Everest comes from the local villages
Climbers usually bring tin and packet food from their own country and buy fresh food on the trek to Everest in the villages they pass through.
Well you don't climb Everest in one go. It takes around two month's from the time you reach base camp to the time you leave high camp for the summit. Thus you and you expedition have a huge amount of gear and equipment, which varies depending on the stage of ascent. For the summit push you mainly carry oxygen, junk food, lots of water and different odds and ends like a knife, head lamp.
No, it is not easy to descend from the summit of Mount Everest. The main reason being is that the climber would of taken anything up to 10 hours to reach the summit from the top camp. By now the climber would be very tired, lacking of vital food and water. This could make the climber become clumsy and fall.