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Every 29 May, roughly 250 runners drop nearly 2,000 vertical metres down the Everest Base Camp trail to Namche Bazaar. Here's what the…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Every year on 29 May, a start gun goes off at roughly 5,360 metres — higher than every mountain in the continental United States — and about 250 people start running. Not up. Down: 42.195 kilometres down the Everest Base Camp trail, past the foot of the…
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What this means for you You don't have to be a 3:28 marathoner to experience this trail. Most of our clients walk the identical Base Camp-to-Namche route over four or five unhurried days on the standard EBC itinerary , or extend it via Gokyo , with…
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