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Khumbu Himal - from Lukla to Everest
On the mountain we took ten days - very little to get too high. From Kathmandu you can take a bus only to Jiri. There is a footpath to Lukla (7 days away). Next to the Monastery Tyanpoche three days, then to Everest base camp 4-5 days. Sufficiently reliable Airport - Lukla, to which several times a day flying Russian helicopters. You can fly and then to Namche Bazar, but tickets to get it practically impossible, and the weather conditions can be stuck for a week.Almost in Nepal only two mountain tourist area, who are open to visitors - Khumbu Himal (Everest neighborhood) and Anapurna. They go well in the area Lantang far from Kathmandu, which, according to reviews, the most interesting in ethnographic terms.
Other areas are closed or permits are seldom granted.
To enter the tracking area to buy a special permit, which is controlled by the police. Typically, in addition to permit the tracking still have to pay for entrance to the national park. Climbers must separately pay for the right to climb the peaks above a certain level, and the fee for Eight-already huge - hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most tourists go around Anapurny - this is perhaps the only circular route around the top eight thousandth to pass 5400, which can be made without serious preparation.
Extra week we had. With some tension, we got tickets for a helicopter. Old Soviet military helicopter was a tin can with holes in the bottom, through which we watched all the bottom. Passengers sitting along the walls, and the luggage was dumped in a pile in the middle of the helicopter. The stewardess handed out candy "takeoff" and cotton for the ears. Crew masterfully slid into small openings in the clouds and maneuvered among the rocks. Then the helicopter suddenly sat down on a rock, as we thought in someone's garden. In Lukla to us immediately attacked Sherpas: offering a guide or porter.
It was funny at the airport on the way back. Since the "main entrance" into the airport is located on the back side of the village, and to get there, you must climb a mountain and jump twice as Ford, they all go through the runway and enter the terminal on the back. Then follows a dismal registration, passport control and a long personal search. Then the passengers sit on the bench at the same spot where they entered the terminal, and passed inspection again mixed with non-past. Baggage Sherpas belong to the runway and blame it in a heap. When it appeared such a fog that was not seen for three yards, and then went to shower, the passengers were forced to come to their own things on the runway and pick them up. When the helicopter arrived, everyone came back and threw things into the same pile, so they loaded Sherpas.
Not far from the station sit sherpish women and using sledgehammers break big stones into small, making the gravel to cover the additional runway.
In Lukla converge several hiking trails, on which the goods are delivered to all the mountain villages on the yak, buffalo or a porter.
The Sherpas are an immense gravity, and men and women, and since childhood. Often vstretish porter with a large basket on his back, where three huge tourist backpack. An eight-year child can drag a huge wooden pole. Sherpas in adults are on multiple columns, or cast iron stoves, or blanks. Usually, porters move slowly but surely.
In the side of Mount Everest is only one road along a narrow gorge. The road is good enough and comfortable, but almost the only, and neither up nor down can not walk because of the steepness of the slope. One side of the trail there are three or four large valley, each of which several villages. But almost all the trails deadlock - walkable passes virtually absent. Along the trail almost every 3-4 kilometers small villages and hotels for tourists. Hotel (Lodge)-is a solid two-storey wooden house, like tourist shelters in Austria or Bavaria. There is enough clean, there are several small rooms and several rooms for large groups. The restaurant - good-quality food, usually from local products. Potatoes. macaroni, noodles, yache or buffalo meat, cheese yachy, momo (dumplings), cereals, tea, coffee, beer - in general, no worse than in shelters in the Alps. In the center of the restaurant is a stove, around which everyone sits around and lead the conversation.
While warning that the mountain hotels are fleas, we never see them again.
All products and building materials brought to the Sherpas themselves on trails.
Hotels in the Everest region most likely belong to large firms, which charge them to local residents.
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