Everest Base Camp Trek: A Resilience Journey
With our world-class facilitators and guides. The ultimate resilience program to build confidence, respect and coping skills.
Overview
Everest Base Camp Trek: The Ultimate Resilience Building Program
Follow in the footsteps of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on our Everest Base Camp Trek – now transformed into a powerful 16 day experiential resilience program that blends adventure, culture, and deep personal growth.
This is more than a trek. It is a structured journey designed to stretch comfort zones, strengthen mindset, and help participants discover what they are truly capable of under challenge.
Your adventure begins in Kathmandu, where the group meets for the first of many guided reflection sessions. Here, you will explore the foundations of resilience before flying to Lukla – an extraordinary mountain flight that marks the official start of your ascent into the Khumbu. From the moment you take off and the Himalaya rises beneath you, the experience becomes immersive, intentional, and purpose driven.
Trekking Through the Heart of the Khumbu
From Lukla, the trail winds through Sherpa villages, across suspension bridges, and into valleys shaped by centuries of culture and mountaineering history. Each day blends physical challenge with facilitated resilience activities designed to build awareness, mindset, and capacity.
Participants work through structured prompts, micro-challenges, and guided discussions that connect the environment with evidence based resilience practices.
Namche Bazaar, Tengboche Monastery, and the views of Ama Dablam, Lhotse, Nuptse, and Everest offer breathtaking moments of inspiration. But it is the combination of these landscapes with your daily resilience work that makes this Everest Base Camp Trek truly transformative.
Reaching Everest Base Camp
Arriving at Everest Base Camp is a powerful milestone. Standing at the foot of the Khumbu Icefall – a place where determination, preparation, and human endurance converge – participants reflect on their own progress, strengths, and newly developed strategies for managing challenge.
This experience becomes a symbolic reminder of how far you have come and how much more capacity you possess than you first believed.
16 Days / 15 nights
3 Nights Hotels / 12 Nights Lodges
Highest Altitude (5545m) – Kala Pattar
Most meals included
Day 1: Arrive Kathmandu and Afterwards Welcome Dinner
Day 2: Sightseeing and final preparations
Day 3: Fly to Lukla (2800m) Then Begin Everest Base Camp trek. Overnight Phakding (2600m
Day 4: Trek to Namche Bazaar Then Rest and Hot Showers! (3440m)
Day 5: Rest and acclimatisation day in Namche Bazaar (3440m)
Day 6: Trek to Deboche (3710m)
Day 7: Trek to Dingboche (4410m)
Day 8: Rest and acclimatisation day in Dingboche (4410m)
Kala Pattar and the Descent
Before dawn the following morning, the group makes the climb to Kala Pattar for the best panoramic view of Everest and its surrounding giants. As sunrise washes the summit in gold, you will take part in a guided reflection designed to anchor learning, reinforce resilience principles, and help you integrate the experience into everyday life.
The cruisy descent to Pheriche offers a shift in pace – time for deeper conversations, personal insight, and the satisfaction of completing one of the world’s most iconic journeys. By the time you return to Kathmandu, you have not just completed the Everest Base Camp Trek. You have lived a 16 day resilience program that challenges, stretches, and ultimately transforms how you respond to pressure, uncertainty, and personal ambition.
Delivered in partnership with our great friends at Trek Climb Ski Nepal, this is the Everest Base Camp Trek reimagined – an adventure that strengthens resilience, builds confidence, and delivers lasting change long after you return home.
Learn more about Everest Base Camp Treks and Trek Climb Ski Nepal.
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Dates 20 Feb – 7 Mar, 2026
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Dates 6 Mar – 21 Mar, 2026
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Dates 8 May – 23 May, 2026
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Dates 18 Sep – 3 Oct, 2026
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Dates 6 Nov – 21 Nov, 2026
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“What an awesome experience trekking to Everest Base Camp with Trek Climb Ski Nepal. Nothing left to chance, no shortcuts, just an extremely well organised and life changing adventure.”
Daniel Doncaster
Everest Base Camp Trek – September 2016
Everest Base Camp Trek: A Resilience Journey
Itinerary
Day 1
Arrive Kathmandu
Kathmandu – Program Welcome
Upon arrival at Kathmandu International Airport, you’ll be met by our Resilience Builders staff and transferred to your hotel. After check-in, your trip leaders will personally welcome you, issue your equipment and kit bag, and introduce you to the framework that will shape the next 16 days: challenge, reflection, growth, and resilience in action.
In the evening, join your leaders and guides for a relaxed welcome dinner. Here, we set the tone for the journey ahead with an opening resilience session focused on mindset, intention and preparing to operate outside your comfort zone. It’s a strong beginning that blends adventure with purposeful learning.
Radisson Hotel (or equivalent) in Kathmandu
Dinner
1350m (Kathmandu)
Day 2
Kathmandu
Kathmandu – Culture & Foundations of Resilience
After breakfast, we explore Kathmandu’s cultural highlights — Pashupatinath Temple, Boudhanath Stupa and Durbar Square. Throughout the day, your leaders weave in concepts of perspective taking, presence, and awareness, using the city’s spiritual traditions to introduce core resilience themes.
The afternoon is at leisure, with our team available to assist with last-minute gear needs. Before dinner, we gather for a short guided reflection session designed to anchor learning and prepare for the challenges of altitude, uncertainty and the unknown.
Radisson Hotel (or equivalent) in Kathmandu
Breakfast
1350m (Kathmandu)
Day 3
To Lukla and Phakding
To Lukla and Phakding – Entering the Growth Zone
An early start takes us by private vehicle to Ramechhap Airport for the spectacular mountain flight to Lukla. As the Himalaya rises beneath the aircraft, we begin our first resilience exercise: noticing fear, excitement, anticipation and reframing them as fuel for growth.
Over breakfast at Namaste Lodge, we discuss today’s theme — embracing uncertainty. Then we begin our first walk of the Everest Base Camp Trek: a gentle, steady introduction through Sherpa villages to Phakding.
A short reflection activity before dinner helps participants consolidate insight from their first day on the trail.
Kongde Peak Guest House
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
2600m (Phakding)
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Day 4
Namche Bazaar
Phakding to Namche Bazaar – Persistence and Confidence
Today is one of the more demanding sections as we ascend Namche Hill. Persistence, pacing, and mental strategy are today’s core resilience skills.
We pause at key points to complete short “micro-challenges,” helping participants practise focus and controlled breathing under physical load. Clear weather may reveal our first glimpse of Everest — a powerful moment used to connect aspiration with process.
In Namche, we settle in for two nights at the Namche Hotel. After dinner, a guided debrief explores how participants responded to effort, strain, and altitude.
Namche Hotel
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
3440m (Namche Bazaar)
Day 5
NAMCHE BAZAAR
Namche Bazaar – Acclimatisation & Psychological Strength
Today’s acclimatisation walk to Hotel Everest View introduces the theme of psychological recovery — understanding how the mind resets, recharges, and adapts under stress.
At the top, we run a structured reflection session with Everest, Lhotse and Ama Dablam as the backdrop. The afternoon is yours to explore Namche before a resilience workshop in the early evening on self-awareness and stress appraisal.
Namche Hotel
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
3440m (Namche Bazaar)
Day 6
deboche
Namche to Deboche – Calm Under Pressure
Leaving Namche, the scenic traverse toward Tengboche offers constant reminders of the scale of the mountains surrounding us. At Tengboche Monastery, we pause for a short guided mindfulness session — training the ability to remain grounded under pressure.
After coffee and pastries, we descend to the peaceful forested village of Deboche. Before dinner at Rivendell Lodge, the group completes a reflective exercise on energy management and emotional regulation.
Rivendell Lodge
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
3710m (Deboche)
Day 7
Dingboche
Deboche to Dingboche – Expanding Capacity
Today’s journey introduces greater exposure, altitude and terrain changes. As we cross the suspension bridge and ascend toward Pangboche, our leaders introduce techniques for managing self-talk and cognitive load.
The approach to Dingboche marks a shift into higher, more rugged landscapes — a fitting setting for today’s theme: expanding capacity through intentional effort.
In the evening, a guided journalling session helps participants identify personal patterns under challenge.
Bright Star Lodge
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
4410m (Dingboche)
Day 8
Around Dingboche
Dingboche – Active Recovery & Reflection
A slower morning allows for essential physical and psychological recovery. Mid-morning, we take a gentle acclimatisation walk up the valley towards Chukhung and Island Peak.
Today’s resilience focus is adaptability — learning to adjust pace, expectations and energy while maintaining forward movement.
After returning to Dingboche, we run a facilitated discussion on rest as a performance strategy, not a step backwards.
Bright Star Lodge
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
4410m (Dingboche)
Day 9
LOBUCHE
Dingboche to Lobuche – Meaning, Motivation & Mindset
One of the most powerful days of the program. As we ascend past Thukla Pass, we pause at the memorials honouring climbers who died on Everest. This solemn place becomes the setting for a resilience activity centred on purpose, values and intrinsic motivation.
Altitude becomes noticeable today, providing the perfect real-world environment to practise breath control, pacing, and mental discipline.
Evening reflection: How do we stay motivated when conditions become difficult?
Himalayan Eco Lodge
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
4910m (Lobuche)
Day 10
Everest Base Camp
Everest Base Camp – Achievement, Perspective & Pride
We trek alongside the Khumbu Glacier to Gorak Shep, refuel, then make our steady approach to Everest Base Camp. The final hours require focus, teamwork and controlled effort — a culmination of every resilience skill built so far.
At Base Camp, we hold a guided session on achievement, identity, and belief — anchoring this milestone as evidence of each participant’s capability.
We return to Gorak Shep for dinner and a well-earned rest.
Snowland Inn
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
5140m (Gorak Shep)
Day 11
Kala Pattar and Pheriche
Kala Pattar & Descent to Pheriche – Peak Experience & Recovery
A pre-dawn ascent of Kala Pattar brings us to 5550m for sunrise over Everest. At the summit we run a short grounding exercise, emphasising clarity, presence and gratitude.
The descent to Pheriche is gentler and provides ideal space for personal reflection. Afternoon workshop: turning peak experience into sustained behavioural change.
The Edelweiss Pheriche
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
4370m (Pheriche)
Day 12
Deboche
Pheriche to Deboche – Integration & Insight
A relaxed descent allows time for conversation, learning consolidation and informal coaching. Participants begin linking physical challenges with personal leadership, teamwork and stress response insights.
Evening group conversation: What strengths have emerged? What has shifted in your thinking?
Rivendell Lodge
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
3710m (Deboche)
Day 13
Namche Bazaar
Deboche to Khumjung / Namche – Confidence & Leadership
As we revisit Tengboche and descend toward Sanasa, today’s theme is leadership under fatigue. Participants take turns navigating, pacing or supporting others, applying the resilience skills learned throughout the trek.
Depending on group energy, we finish in Khumjung or continue to Namche. Evening session: leadership styles, communication and how we support others through challenge.
Namche Bazaar Hotel
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
3440m (Namche Bazaar)
Day 14
lukla
Namche to Lukla – Celebration & Reflection
The final trekking day is filled with pride, laughter and shared achievement. In Lukla, we celebrate with our Sherpa team — acknowledging their leadership, strength and generosity.
That evening at Namaste Lodge, we complete a major reflection activity on commitment, resilience and the legacy of this experience.
Namaste Lodge
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
2800m (Lukla)
Day 15
Return to kathmandu
Return to Kathmandu – Consolidation & Closure
A morning flight returns us to Ramechhap, followed by private transport to Kathmandu. The rest of the day is yours to rest or explore.
Before our farewell dinner, we run the final structured session of the program: turning insight into action. Participants leave with a personalised resilience plan to implement at home or work.
Radisson Hotel (or equivalent)
Breakfast and lunch
1350m (Kathmandu)
Day 16
kathmandu
Depart Kathmandu – Homeward Bound
After breakfast, all guests are transferred to Kathmandu International Airport for onward flights. You leave having completed not just the Everest Base Camp Trek, but a purpose built resilience development program designed to shift thinking, strengthen mindset and build lifelong capability.
Radisson Hotel (or equivalent)
Breakfast
1350m (Kathmandu)
Everest Base Camp Trek: A Resilience Journey
What’s included
- 3 nights accommodation at The Radisson Hotel (or equivalent) in Kathmandu with breakfasts
- Welcome dinner and drinks in Kathmandu
- All ground transfers in Nepal
- Sightseeing tour in Kathmandu (includes entry fees and guide)
- Private bus transfer from Kathmandu to Ramechhap in rural Nepal
- Return fixed-wing flights from Ramechhap to Lukla
- National Park entrance fees and trekking permits
- All Meals while trekking
- All lodge accommodation while trekking
- Experienced trip leader and guides
- Porters to carry all personal and group equipment
- Porter’s insurance
- Emergency medical kit
- Hire down jacket and sleeping bag
- Complimentary Trek Climb Ski Nepal kit bag
- Nepalese tourist taxes and fees
Note: Tips for porters and guides are NOT included
Everest Base Camp Trek: A Resilience Journey
Accommodation & Meals
Our renowned Everest Base Camp program includes three nights at the Radisson Hotel (or equivalent) in Kathmandu. In addition, Resilience Builders provides a complimentary welcome dinner in Kathmandu on the first evening of your adventure. During your time in the mountains, you will stay in comfortable lodge accommodation along the route.
Furthermore, this expedition includes all meals while you are trekking in the mountains. Each day, both morning and afternoon tea are also provided, ensuring you stay fuelled and refreshed throughout your journey.
Most importantly, we proudly employ an all-you-can-eat food policy on all our mountain programs. Proper food intake, combined with regular hydration, is critical for safe altitude acclimatisation.
Everest Base Camp Trek: A Resilience Journey
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