Mt. Manaslu Expedition

You'll be met at the airport with a representative from Altitude Experts trips & Expedition who will escort you to the hotel room which has been booked in advance for you.  
You'll be staying in Thamel, a tourist hub in Kathmandu. Thamel is bounded by outdoor shops (ranging from local to brand name shops such as Mountain Hardwear, The North Face, Sherpa Gear), hotels, bar & restaurants, spa, a few pharmacies and music shops. In the evening, you will be treated to a delightful welcome dinner at a top-notch restaurant in Kathmandu.  

After a delectable breakfast, embark on a captivating sightseeing tour of Kathmandu's ancient city. A licensed and expert tour guide will be at your service, and a comfortable private vehicle will be at your disposal. The day's itinerary includes visits to the grand Boudhanath Stupa, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the sacred Pashupatinath Temple, the iconic Swambhunath Stupa, also known as the monkey temple, the historical Kathmandu Durbar Square with its ancient King's palace, and the enlightening Narayanhiti King's palace Museum. The evening concludes as you are safely transported back to your hotel. Enjoy your evening in Kathmandu strolling the streets of Thamel and shopping for some souvenirs if you like.  

Our experienced mountain guide team will visit your hotel to inspect all the climbing gear we suggested for your expedition. We'll categorize and pack the gear into two separate duffle bags—one for the trek and the other directly destined for the basecamp. In the evening, you'll have the flexibility to indulge in any last-minute shopping or preparations. At the same time, you have a final chance to check up on your equipment and pack up the baggage.   

After having breakfast, our guide will be at your hotel to pick you with private comfortable vehicle. You will start your journey from the bustling city of Kathmandu. When you travel by road, you get to enjoy beautiful scenery. You will drive following the Trishuli river by Prithvi Highway. Along the way, you will pass through numerous villages and terraced fields. The road connection is also good so, you will be able to travel comfortably.

Besisahar is the headquarters of the Lamjung district. Similarly, Besisahar is the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit, Manaslu Circuit, Narphu Valley, and Tilicho Lake Trek routes. Besisahar lies 175 kilometers (109 miles) to the west of Kathmandu. It is a charming town situated along the Marsyangdi River. It takes around 6 to 8 hours to travel from Kathmandu to Besisahar by road. It is a pleasant and scenic drive from Kathmandu. Besisahar is not only popular for being the entry point for popular trekking routes, but also for its natural beauty and cultural heritage. Beautiful hills and mountains surround the town. We will stay beshisahar for a night. You will get last chances to buy something that you forget to buy in Kathmandu.

Today the road to dharapani is more unpaved, bumpy and dusty than the day before. We will take a four-wheeler jeep with the experienced driver. Dharapani is small Gurung settlement and business hub for manang and gorkha district

We start our trek after breakfast. We follow the under-construction roadway that made a walk gentler and easier. After walking 3 hrs in pine forest following the Budhi Gandaki River, we reach Tilche village, Tilche is a village in Nashong, Manang, Gandaki Pradesh and has an elevation of 2262m. This is the Gurung settlement with police check post, health post, schools, and government offices. We will have our lunch here and continue to Gowa. Gowa is small beautiful town with 4-5 local tea houses in the elevation of 2560m.

The trek begins more harder today. We are mostly walk in the pine forest folloeing the same river, crossing surkikhola, yak kharka villages today. The first view of Mt. Manaslu will visible if the weather permits.

At an altitude of more than 3000 m, our body can show signs of altitude sickness. You need time to deal with increasing height and falling air pressure and temperature. So today, you spend the day in Samagaon to rest and acclimatize.On this acclimatization day, we take a walk up to the ponkar lake (3965m) offers one of the best panoramic views of the surrounding mountains including Mt. Manaslu . Ponkar lake is glacial lake, nestled below the challenging Larke-La Pass and near the high Manang area, facing the northwest side of Mt. Manaslu.We will descend down following the same trail back to Bhimthang to stay overnight

Today is the hardest day of our lower trekking to reach manaslu basecamp. We will wake up early morning like 3 am and start our trek earlier after having breakfast. Larkey La pass(5106m) is the border between Manang and Gurkha District. The stunning view of Mt. Larkey la peak with 360 snow capped mountain will wait for you from the top of the pass. We will reach samdo village by crossing phedi, larkey la and Dharmasala in 8-9 hrs. Samdo village used to be the business hub for locals and Tibetans while the border was open. Samdo Village is a small settlement located in the Manaslu conservation Area in Nepal. It is situated at an altitude of approximately 3,875 meters (12,713 feet) in the Gorkha District of central Nepal. 

The hike today is the easiest trek of this expedition. Samagaun is a settelement in Gorkha district of northern-central Nepal. Samagaun village falls within the Manaslu Circuit Trek and is regarded as the last stop for trekkers before Birendra Lake and Manaslu Base Camp.Today we will visit nearest monastery and offer the puja for successful expedition, explore Birendra tal and the village.

To keep the journey on, today, we will head towards Manaslu Base Camp. It will not take us long to reach the base camp of the world’s eighth-tallest peak. Walking on a muddy trail, we will first reach a scenic village of rhododendron and juniper. We will leave the woods and walk for several hours to get to the picturesque Manaslu Base Camp. Our staffs are ready to welcome you in our comfortable campsites.

Phase 1: Puja ceremony & Training  

After we reach basecamp, we will get 1- or 2-days leisure day to acclimatize our body well. Our sherpa team will decide our puja day on very auspicious day according on lunar calendar. Puja ceremony in the other word is taking a permission with the nature to steps on their body. The local ethnic group from the valley believes that all mountain has its own gods and goddess, so we need to take a permission before we step on. Puja ceremony is performed by the monk from the near village, Samagaun. Your guide will instruct you well on the day before the ceremony. The day will be full of relaxation, enjoyment, dancing, and singing. 

After the day of auspicious puja ceremony, your training session will start. One of our best climbing guides will lead a session which includes gear demonstration, walking on crampons, use of technical gears and walking on fix lines etc. Our team of guides will instruct you about using all technical gears and set up the fix line near our camp in ice fall and show you the demo of walking on fix line using your high altitude all in one boot and crampon. The pre basic training session will take place for one or two days in basecamp.  

After a great training of one or two days our Phase 1 of climbing is done, and you are ready to climb up furthermore.  

Phase 2: Acclimatization rotation on Mountain.  

We designed the best rotation that suits all levels of people who live at sea level, to acclimatize well on the mountain.  

Rotation 1: Touch camp 3

Day 1^st: Basecamp to camp I ,5800 meters (19029 feet)  

The camp I of Mt. Manaslu lies in the ridge between Manaslu and Naike peak. We start our journey in midday after lunch.Our climbing guide will instruct you about the gears and clothing, what should pack in and not. Our support sherpa team will help you to carry tents, your sleeping bag, insulated flame mattress and some snacks. We expect you to carry a minimum of 15kg of wight.  

Approx Elevation Gain: 900meters (2950ft.) 

Highest Elevation: 5800masl/ 19029ft. 

Approx. walking hours: 4-5hrs. 

Overnight at VE25 tent or equivalent mountain tents. 

All foods provided are high altitude ready to eat packet foods. 

Day 2^nd: Acclimatization hike towards camp 2. 

The second day walk is harder than the first day. We will hike towards camp 2 and try to reach 6200masl and will back to camp 1 again for the night. 

Approx Elevation Gain: 400meters (1310ft.) 

Highest Elevation: 6200meters (20340ft.) 

Approx walking Hour: 5 hrs. 

Overnight at VE25 tent or equivalent mountain tent. 

All foods provided are high altitude ready to eat packet foods. 

Day 3^rd: Camp I to Camp II, 6400 meters (21300 feet).  

We start our day in late the morning today. It is about to take 5hrs from camp 1 to camp II with an altitude gain of 600meters (1970ft.). So, it is not far but is very hot at midday. The trail is steeper and has some risk of avalanches.

Approx Elevation Gain: 600meters (1970ft.) 

Highest Elevation: 6400masl/ 21300ft. 

Approx. walking hours: 5 hrs. 

Overnight at VE25 tent or equivalent mountain tents. 

 All foods provided are high altitude ready to eat packet foods. 

Day 4^th: Touch Camp III, 6800meters (22310ft.) and back to Camp II. 

We are trying to reach camp III but it is not necessary. At least we will gain 200 meters. Your guide will decide and instruct you all about the plans and climb.  

Approx Elevation Gain: 400meters (1310ft.) 

Highest Elevation: 6800masl/ 22310ft. 

Approx. walking hours: 4hrs. 

Overnight at VE25 tent or equivalent mountain tents. 

All foods provided are high altitude ready to eat packet foods. 

Day 5^th: back to basecamp. 

We will retrace the same way back to basecamp today. We start our journey early in the morning. 

With these five days of acclimatization rotation, we will complete our second phase of the expedition.  

Phase 3: Summit rotation  

After the hard work out, training and some relaxation, finally the most awaited moments will come. Our guide team will decide our summit rotations based on favorable weather conditions, less traffic, completion of fixed line on mountain and other conditions. Normally the summit rotation will like following: 

·         Day 1: Basecamp to camp I

·         Day 2: Camp I to Camp II

·         Day 3: Camp II to Camp III 

·         Day 4: Camp III to Camp IV 

Approx Elevation Gain: 600(1970ft.) 

Highest Elevation: 7400masl/ 24280ft. 

Approx. walking hours: 6-7hrs. 

Overnight at VE25 tent or equivalent mountain tents. 

All foods provided are high altitude ready to eat packet foods. You will use supplemental oxygen from camp 3.

Expected weight of your bag: 8 kg 

·         Day 5: Summit Day 

Finally, the most awaited day will arrive. After reaching camp IV in the evening, we will have some hours rest and our summit push begins at midnight. You will be provided with 1 bottle of oxygen for the rest and another 1 bottle for the summit.  

Approx Elevation Gain: 763m (2504ft.) 

Highest Elevation: 8163 meters (26780feet) 

Approx. walking hours: 7hrs. climbing up and 6 hrs. down. 

Overnight at VE25 tent or equivalent mountain tents. 

All foods provided are high altitude ready to eat packet foods. 

*Depending on the weather condition and your body condition we will decide about either staying in Camp II or back to basecamp after summiting. Most of the climbers don’t want to spend more night on the mountain so they decided to come lower as they can at the same day. 

·         Day 7: Back to Basecamp. 

Note: Our guide will decide at basecamp about the date of summit and rotations, The itinerary can be changed depending on your physical condition, speeds, times and other factors.  

We will dry and pack our stuffs for porters, and will head back to samagau in the evening. You will be offered a direct heli flight back to kathmandu from basecamp or samagau in some extra charges. 

It takes 7-8 hrs walk down to reach ghap village. 

Philim bazaar is the headqurter of Tsum-nubri municipality and business hub for nubri people.

Toady we will hike half day to Tato pani then will take a jeep ride to sotikhola for 3 hrs. 

note: depends on the road conditions. 

You will drive back to Ktm by private vehicle to ktm and transfer to hotel. In the evening you will be invited for farewell dinner in top rated restaurant in kathmandu.

You will drop to airport by our staffs.