The Snow Saddle
- is another beautiful mountain, which rises majestically
to a saddle shaped summit from the Khumbu and Hinku
Valley and sits next to another prominent mountain
Thamserku to the north. Our approach to this mountain
is from the out side over the Tsetrawala pass and
then through the Hinku glacier. We take about a week
to reach the Kangtega base camp situated at the bottom
of the Kangtega Ice-Fall, which resembles with the
infamous Khumbu Ice Fall of Mt. Everest. Setting up
our base camp at 5,182m/17,000ft. Though an obvious
route up the mountain would be to follow the Ice Fall,
we have to go for the rock face leading to a ridge
around 6,070m/19,909ft and rappel down for about 70
meters to reach at the top of the icefall to avoid
possible Icefall.
Itinerary Outline
Day 01: Arrival pick up from the International Airport and transfer to Hotel
Day 02: A free day in Kathmandu for the permit prepairation
Day 03: Tour briefing in Ministry of Tourism
Day 04: Kathmandu-Lukla flight and trek to Phakding (2622m)
Day 05: Phakding-Namche Bazaar 3440m
Day 06: Namche rest for acclimatization
Day 07: Namche Bazaar–Thyangboche (3867m)
Day 08: Thyangboche-Kangtega Base Camp and set up the Camp
Day 09–29: Climbing period of Kangtega (6779m)
Day 30: Kangtega Base Camp–Thyangboche
Day 31: Thyangboche–Namche Bazaar
Day 32: Namche Bazaar–Phakding
Day 33: Phakding–Lukla
Day 34: Fly back to Kathmandu and transfer to Hotel
Day 35: A free day in Kathmandu
Day 36: Transfer to Airport for departure flight
