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Mera Peak via Lukla
UCSF Helen Diller Family
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Jan 18’ - Dec 21’
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Min Age: 12+
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Pickup: Airpot
Description
Overview:
Mera Peak is Nepal’s highest ‘trekking peak’, classified as a mountain less than 7,000 m/ 22,970 feet that
still requires some technical knowledge, but that can be attempted in Nepal with a climbing permit, rather
than a costly expedition permit. While Mera Peak requires some knowledge of mountain climbing
technique (such as crampon use) it is not an overly technical trek. Thus, Mera Peak would be a good first
attempt at climbing a Himalayan mountain.
Price Includes
Specialized bilingual guide
Private Transport
Entrance fees (Cable and car and Moon Valley)
Box lunch water, banana apple and chocolate
Price Excludes
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Itinerary
- Activities: Flying into Kathmandu, you'll have views of the Himalaya and of the terraced fields and hillsides, below. After completing customs, a representative will be waiting to greet you and drive you to your hotel. After you've settled in, you'll have time to explore the city. Recommended sights to see on your first day include Kathmandu’s Durbar Square and its narrow alleyways teeming with small shops, ancient temples, and local restaurants, and also Swayambhunath temple, where you can watch the sunset over the valley and the Himalaya to your north. The tourist hub of Thamel is a good place to grab your first meal, with a variety of restaurants to chose from offering both Western and local Nepali dishes.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Hotel in Kathmandu
- Activities: After breakfast, you'll fly to Lukla (20 minutes) and land on a steep mountain runway, which brings you to the start of your trek. Try to get a window seat on the left-hand side of the plane and keep your camera close: the flight takes you between mountains and through valleys, with great views of the Himalaya on clear days.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Travel to one of the country's most rugged landscapes — the legendary Death Valley, California. Soak in the dramatic landscape. In the afternoon, continue on to Bakersfield for the night.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: After a heavy breakfast, we pack our lunch and start walking up a steep incline for around four hours, first crossing a ridge of the Nau Lekh range, which happens to separate the Khumbu Valley from where we are about to enter: the Hinku Valley, and eventually up and over Zwatra-La, a Pass at 4,610 metres. On a clear day, the view of the Limding Himal from the Pass is a worthwhile experience. From here on, Thuli Kharka, also known as Chatra-La, is roughly a couple of hours away on a trail that goes downhill. We spend the night here.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: After breakfast, we walk on a gentle downhill, crossing a ridge, then another, then yet another. In about three hours, we reach Thulodunga. The settlement, with a number of teahouses, is our stopover for lunch. We leave for Kothé. After a sharp descent to the Hinku River, we start our climb through a forest to Kothé. The settlement, on the banks of a river, is well equipped to cater for the needs of most travelers.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Following the west bank of the Hinku Drangka northwards, the forest eventually disappears and the valley widens and becomes much more open. There are no villages in the Upper Hinku, only small kharkas used for grazing goats, sheep and yaks. The twin summits of Kusum Kanguru appear on the left while the valley is bounded on the right by the steep rock face of Mera's satellite peak. Ahead framed in the sharp end of the valley is the imaginatively named Peak 43. We will take lunch at Gondishung, a summer herders’ settlement consisting of a few roofless huts and stone-walled enclosures, as well as a long ancient ‘mani’ wall of intricately carved prayer stones. Beyond Gondishung we pass nearby a fascinating 200 year-old gompa built beneath a massive boulder, and a number of crude mani walls. It is well worth visiting this gompa to burn some juniper at the shrine, an offering that just might ensure a successful ascent of Mera Peak. From the gompa it is an hour’s walk over moraines to the Yak herders settlement of Tagnag. Once similar in appearance to Gondishung, nowadays there are several teahouses here. The group will spend at least two nights at Tagnag (4350m) before moving up to Mera Basecamp.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: A day for acclimatization. One option for an acclimatization walk is to trek up the nearby ridge coming down from Kusum Kanguru, where we can reach an altitude of nearly 5000 metres and gain a spectacular view of our route onto the Mera La. At the leader’s discretion, part of today may also be used to run through various techniques and safety procedures to be used during the climbs.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Heading up from Tagnag towards the Mera Basecamp at Khare, a good trail leads up and across the moraine which dams Charpatti Tal, and reaches a high point lined with cairns overlooking this glacial lake in about 30 minutes. From here the trail descends slightly to cross a sandy bowl and then climbs alongside a khola or stream to the large pasture of Dig Kharka. Here we cross the khola on stepping stones and then climb for a further hour and a half to Khare, the basecamp for Mera Peak at an altitude of approximately 5000 meters.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Another day for acclimatization. At the leader’s discretion, part of today may also be used to practice techniques and safety procedures to be used on our climbs. There are some interesting day hikes from Khare. Above camp it is possible to climb to a high moraine ridge, from where there are good views of the Mera La and the route up the mountain. This will also be a time for final preparation of our equipment and packing of our mountain bags.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Leaving basecamp we first climb to the crest of the moraine above Khare and then up a steep slope of scree or snow to reach a boulder strewn bowl below the lower tongue of the Mera Glacier. We should reach this point in one and a half hours from Khare. The route crosses the bowl and climbs the ground to the right of the tongue to a large rock platform beside the glacier. Here we will put on our crampons and climb 30 – 35 degree snow or ice for 10 or 15 minutes to reach the plateau leading to the Mera La. Unless there has been recent snowfall, there will be a good trail which weaves its way around and between the crevasses toward the Mera La. It is about an hour’s walk across the plateau to reach the pass itself. It is possible to camp in many places on the wide expanse of the Mera La or the trek leader may opt to drop down a short way on the Hongu side to a good, sheltered site that enjoys the early morning sun. Altitude at the Mera La is 5415 metres. Once the camp is established, our porters will descend back to Khare with instructions to return the following day to help carry to high camp. The climbing group will spend the afternoon drinking as much tea and soup as possible to help with acclimatization.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: There are several options for a high camp on the mountain but the best by far is behind the pinnacles at approximately 5800 metres. Here there is shelter from the wind, usually no snow, and well constructed platforms for several tents. It takes 3 to 4 hours to reach this site from the Mera La. After the first half an hour’s climb, the view north into the main Himalaya opens out. First of the 8000 metre giants in view is the red pyramid of Makalu, then Everest with its cloud plume peeking over the impressive black wall of Lhotse. Later you can see to the north-west the large white girth of Cho Oyu. Arriving at high camp, if the weather has been kind, the beautiful massif of Kangchenjunga comes into view, far to the East. Five of the World's six highest mountains.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities:
- Activities: Early start around 3:00 Am after the breakfast. We have to put on Crampons and Rope up before setting out for the summit. One of the great advantages of using our high camp, as well as making for a shorter summit day, is that we will have only around an hour of walking with head torches before dawn breaks. Climbing mostly easy angled snow slopes to the foot of the dome of the central summit, we will place a fixed rope for the last 30 to 40 meters. Which steepens to an angle of 45 - 50 degrees? Note that in certain snow conditions an ascent of the Central summit may be beyond the technical grade for this trek and in this case the group will make an ascent of the easier and slightly lower South summit. The trip leader will make this decision. From either top, the panorama of the Himalaya including five of the world’s highest peaks is unforgettable. From our high camp a well acclimatized party will take 3 - 4 hours to the summit. From the summit we will descend first to our high camp for some tea or soup and from here down to the Mera La and all the way back down to our advance base camp at Khare. A long but inspirational day!
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Today we climb up through the lush forest on the west side of the Hinku Valley to Tuli Kharka below the Zatrawa La.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: Today we climb up through the lush forest on the west side of the Hinku Valley to Tuli Kharka below the Zatrawa La.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: The last 300 - 400 meters to the Zatrwa La will be our last climb of the trip. From the top we trek downhill for almost 2000 meters to Lukla.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Teahouse
- Activities: You'll fly to Kathmandu (25 minutes). Try to get a window seat on the right-hand side of the plane and keep your camera close: the flight takes you between mountains and through valleys, with great views of the Himalayas on clear days. After your arrival, our representative will be waiting at the airport. Then, you will drive from Rammechhap to Kathmandu (4-5 hours drive) and will be transferred to your respective hotel at Kathmandu.
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Accommodation: Hotel in Kathmandu
- Activities: It's time to say farewell to Nepal! Enjoy your last moments in Kathmandu with breakfast in a café, a city stroll, and/or souvenir shopping. A representative will meet you at your hotel and drive you to the airport for your return flight home.
- Meals: Breakfast
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Good Trip
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Vendor 01
3030/0606/24242424 23:43
Good Trip
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System Admin
3030/0606/24242424 23:43
Great Trip
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Vendor 01
3030/0606/24242424 23:43
Trip was great
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