14 Days Everest Gokyo Trek

The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma or Qomolangma (meaning "Mother of the Universe"). According to English accounts of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling for Mount Everest was Deodungha, or "Holy Mountain.

". In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal gave the mountain an official Nepali name: Sagarmatha, meaning "Head of the Sky".

In 1865, the mountain was given its English name by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor - general of India. With both Nepal and Tibet closed to foreign travel, he wrote:

I was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, without any local name that we can discover, whose native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal. In the meantime the privilege as well as the duty devolves on me to assign…a name whereby it may be known among citizens and geographers and become a household word among civilized nations.

Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, Mount Everest.


everest trek - 14 days

Day 01: Fly from Kathmandu to Lukla and trek to Phakding.
Day 02: Trek Namche Bazaar (3440 m.)
Day 03: Rest at Namche Bazar for acclimatization.
Day 04: Trek to Thame [3739m].
Day 05: Trek to Khumjung [3790m].
Day 06: Trek to Dole [4040m] .
Day 07: Trek from Dole to Machhermo [4410m].
Day 08: Trek from Machhermo to Gokyo [4750m].
Day 09: Rest day at Gokyo and excursion in and around Gokyo valley.
Day 10: Trek to Gokyo Ri [5340m] & Trek back to Machhermo (4410m.)
Day 11: Trek from Machhermo to Namche Bazaar (3440m.)
Day 12: Trek from Namche to Phakding (2652m.) .
Day 13: Trek from Phakding to Lukla [2800m].
Day 14: Fly from Lukla to Kathmandu.