Cost does not include:
- Air travel to and from Kathmandu.
- Lunch and dinner in Kathmandu.
- Laundry, postage, telephone calls, and all other items of personal nature.
- Entry visa and Re-entry visa (US $30 each) for Nepal.
- International departure tax.
- Personal Expenses.
- Medical and rescue insurance.
- Personal Climbing equipment.
- Bar bills & Beverage.
- Rescue Jeep.
- Medicine and first aid expenses
- Garbage Deposit USD 500.00 & Deposit fee won't be refunded if the climbers don't bring back their garbage from the expedition after the advance base camp.
- Walkie-Talkie or two way communication radio.
- Satellite phone for communication.
- Extra yak, Per Yak USD 100.00 will be charge up to 50 KG load.
Equipment and accessories available for hire or purchase in KTM:
- Sherpa from Nepal: US $3700 per sherpa.
- Fixed ropes European quality – 10/11 mm: US $2.5 per meter.
- Fixed ropes Korean quality – 8/9 mm: US Cents 30 per meter.
- Epi Gas 260 gms: US $6 per can.
- High Cooking stove: US $22 each.
- Snow bar: US $2.5 each.
- Ice screw: US $8 each.
- Snow shovel: US $45 each.
- Mountain shoes: US $375 per pair.
- Gammo–bag: US $400 each.
- Russian oxygen 4 litters: US$ 450.
- Mask & Regular : US$ 400.
- Film Permit : US$ 6500 (Small Portable movie camera is free)
- Duty Jeep : US$ 3800.00
- Rescue Jeep : USD 800 Per Jeep
Please bring in your own communication equipment as such satellite phone, two way radio etc.
General information on expedition:
As you arrive from Philippines to Kathmandu, we will meet you at the airport and transfer you to designated hotel or guest house. We will spend 2 days in Kathmandu sorting out your visa and other documentation for Tibet, autonomous region of China as well as sorting out your expedition gear if anyone requires them.
Then after 3 days, we will drive towards Nepal–Tibet border up to the Friendship Bridge via Arnico (Friendship) Highway; where the Chinese liaison officer and Chinese transportation will meet us. The expedition gears go by truck but the members travel by Land cruiser 4WD or with comfortable Minibus. We take time to acclimatize with one night at Zhangmu (2300m.) and two nights at Nylam (3750m.) that also gives us the chance to trek up high hills for acclimatization.
Next day we drive to Tingri (4350m) where we spend further two nights acclimatizing. After this we drive to Base camp (5000m.) along the rough way with jerking & bouncing experience through grassy plain which leads up to the Chinese base camp.
We set up our camp at Chinese Base Camp and stay two nights or more, which depends on the feeling of our members. We also make schedules of the yaks by that time. Base camp is a temporary but comfortable affair with Nepali cook and dining tent. Now the two-day walk towards the advance base camp (ABC) begins.
ABC is in the heart of the Himalayas at (5700m.); surrounded by majestic peaks. There is also the high pass called Nangpa La nearby with an old but still used yak track trading route between Nepal and Tibet.
From ABC, we can see the superb view of Cho Oyu. This is the main base camp where we the base camp team will remain and with the favorable weather the expedition starts. 2 persons get one tent. Our Service will be full board up to ABC and after that the climbers should manage all services by themselves.
After the advance base camp (ABC) it is several hours of tough walking on a vague path over moraine-covered glacier to the start of the proper mountaineering (camp 1).
Camp 1 is situated more or less on the ridge at 6400m and the real mountaineering starts from here. The ridge is soft and easy enough for climbing, then it broadens out and you should climb successive huge steps, several of which probably require fixing a rope up at this point. Climbers should fix new rope in co-operation with other members on the mountain. Normally one rope is used for ascent and another for descent. Although the route is crevassed but those normally do not create problem.
Camp 2 is on the edge of a large plateau at 7125m, although you could carefully assess where to put the rope. Depending on conditions and fitness you may attempt the summit from here, or you may establish a light Camp 3 across the plateau and up on a minor ridge at 7550m.
Above Camp 3, there are two rocky steps where you fix another set of ropes prior to the summit ascent.
Finally, you will start early in the morning from camp 3 for summit. Above the rock bends, the slopes are still steep and it may take a time to fix there, depending on conditions, however once on the crest of this ridge the terrain is straight forward eventhough it is a long haul to the summit plateau.
The panorama is breathtakingly magnificent, including Everest (8848m.), Lhotse (8501m.), Nuptse (7855m.), Chamlang (7319m.) and other peaks of the Everest region to the east and south. To the west, there are the Melungtse and Gauri Shankar massifs and to the north, all Tibet. It is normal to descend to Camp 2 from summit and to continue down to the ABC.
