Amphu Lapcha Pass Trek with Mera Peak Climbing

In the early morning, your guide will lead you to the airport for a domestic flight to Lukla. The flight is short but it’s an adventure flight over the Namjura hill, and will have panoramic mountain vistas during the flight. Pack the logistics and start trekking from Lukla to Paiya for today.

A full walking day to Pangom village starts with descending through the farmlands and Paiya Khola then climbing uphill for low altitude Kari La Pass elevated at 3,150m/10,332ft and continuing to Pangomma village for overnight accommodation.

Today our trekking trail leads us through dense rhododendron, pine and bamboo forest. Many species of birds and their chirping in the surrounding make our day enjoyable. The scenery of green hills and past mani walls during the walk reaches us to Nagindingma where we will have our meals and shelter overnight.

We are walking 13km in distance which takes about 6/7 hours. Following the beautiful path with wooded forest is amazing, gradual ascending to Chhatra Khola feels like warming up for our coming challenges in this trekking, overnight lodge.

We leave the tree line behind by walking north on the main trail to Mera Peak. Today we traverse through Majang Khola, Hinku Khola and Trashin Ongma where we have a tea break. After crossing a bridge over Sankhu Khola we reach stunning Kothe, overnight in a lodge.

Today we step in to permit a checkpoint at Kothe as entering Makalu Barun National Park buffer zone area established in 1992. Hiking through the wide valley and alpine vegetation all the way to Thanak is fabulous. Mera Peak summit is visible today we get closer and closer one after another moment

Today is short distance walking, yet we might feel on our breaths as it’s high altitude and the trekking trail is gradually ascending. We enjoy the colorful landscape without any vegetation and astonishing mountain peaks

Today we have a full day for this Mera Peak climbing preparation. The climbing guide will check your mountaineering equipment once if anything is wrong or forgot to take. If you have forgotten any gear, the guide will manage this, of course you should pay the charge.

It’s the journey where you are going to sleep over 5800m which is not possible for normal people, so you are already strong enough and a real mountaineer. Ascending from Khare to Mera Peak High Camp via Mera Peak Base Camp is challenging, you are climbing 800 meters and Khare to Mera high camp is 2.1 km long. Your guide will lead you through past glaciers and reach today's destination.

We provide you hot soup, some other light and easy digesting meals around at midnight. Start the journey with sufficient hot water in a mettle bottle. Walking slowly but continuously will reach us at the Mera peak Summit. Finally the time has come to put our foot on top of the summit, enjoy the panoramic views of mountains and picturesque Makalu Valley from the top and descend to High camp then continue trekking to Kongma Dingma.

Today we follow off the beaten trekking path to Seto Pokhari. The trail goes more ascends and descends which traverse through the Honku Valley. We will pass some remote settlements while walking. We rarely meet tourists and local people along the route as this region is extremely remote and there is no reason to walk through for local people. Mt Lhotse, Nupse and Everest are tremendously visible throughout the day.

We begin another adventure day to Amphu Lapcha Bae Camp through a real remote and unexplored trekking trail. We will see a beautiful Seto Pokhari (Lake) at the end of Honku Valley.

The path goes uphill from here, we see the first glimpse of Mt Chamlang (7,321m) and glaciers in the north and south face of Chamlang. Overnight in a tented camp.

We will have a marvelous breakfast which will be prepared by our camping crew. As we did Mera Peak climbing we don’t need acclimatization day, trekkers who do only this trek without Mera they need an acclimatization day in Amphu Lapcha Base Camp. To do this pass we may need climbing ropes, ice X and gaiters etc, we must be equipped. We will have a remarkable view of Kali Himal, Ama Dablam, Amphu Gyabjen and other regular visible peaks from Amphu Lampcha Pass. We mostly will be walking over the snow and pass crevasses. Now descending with a happy face to Chhukung.

We walked through rugged and off the beaten trekking path, so the path from Chhukung seems so easy, comfortable and wide. Chhukung village is more commercial as there are more tourists for Island Peak climbing, Pass Kongma La to reach Everest Base Camp. It’s an easy but long day through Khumbu valley and pass Tengboche village and noteworthy Tengboche monastery en route.

Namche bazar – Bazar means market in Nepal language, so the place is more commercial where you can buy or rent trekking or climbing gears if trekking starts at Lukla. It’s a nice town lies in Khumbu valley and surrounded by mountains.
The trail leads us through the EBC trek route by passing Monjo, Thuklala, Phakding and some local villages. We check our Everest National Park permits in the check post near Lukla. We would celebrate farewell with our trekking porter’s team whom we were with along the trip as a complete team.  

Today we fly to Kathmandu or Manthali from Lukla airport. In the peak season flights are mostly to and from Manthali, Ramechap. This scenic flight flies over the different valley after passing Lamjura. Feel like we are taking commercial mountain flight- will have a view of White Mountains, green hills, landscapes and towns in order.

Domestic flights can be delay for 1 day- 2 days or days sometimes due to the weather, so prepare for this unforeseen situation. Flight duration is just 25 minute to Manthali and 40 minutes to Kathmandu airport from Lukla. Take a vehicle to Kathmandu, overnight hotel.