Five Common Myths about Everest Base Camp Trek

While searching the route for the trek To Everest Base Camp trekker might have various queries and the thrust.  A trek to Everest Base Camp is the new paradigm and love toward the Himalayan culture and landscape which can provide you personal satisfaction, breathtaking views, and sublime pleasure of climbing. People are eagerly waiting to know the mysterious fact about the Everest Region Trek.  To have your perpetual and lifetime memories to know the hidden mystery of Everest is the praiseworthy works. Here are five major myth of the Everest how the ancient people are handing over such a lucrative aspects of the Everest from the generation to generation. This myth is very reliable and the tools to convey the message to the people from various aspects.

1. Everest, tough to climb and the real sense of the mystic adventure.

The unique and the dangerous highest point of the Mountain in the universes is Everest which is — 29,035 feet when it was measured last time. Since the avalanche caused seven Sherpa porters to work for British explorer George Mallory in 1924, and the more than 250 people died in the mountains. “Everest has more ways to kill you than the sand of the Hunger Games: collapse of the glaciers, pulmonary and cerebral edema, falls, dysentery, stroke, and hypothermia. However, despite these dangers, this mountain is not technically difficult to climb”.  [source:newsday.com]

More than 5,000 people climbed Mount Everest through two routes: the Southeast Mountain Range of Nepal and the northern route of Tibet. These are what climbers call "walking" or long, slow, plodding ascents. Guides like Dave Hahn have climbed 15 times, while two Sherpas, Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa have climbed amazingly 21 times. At the same time, K2, the second highest peak in the world, is even harder to conquer. Mount Nuptse is close to Everest. Unlike its huge neighbors, the satellite has been and offers few safe places to camp.

2. The realistic sense of the wilderness can be found while Climbing Everest.

To reach the Everest Base Camp, the climbers fly to Lukla, an airstrip more than 9,000 feet above a cliff. From there, they walked approximately 40 miles along the one-way street through the traditional Sherpa village and spent approximately 10 days adapting to the 17,600-feet around the Base camp. However, it is important not to confuse the highly abominable environment with the desert.

At least this is the feeling of a base camp like a city. There is a heliport and a hospital. There are communication tents, kitchen tents, and mess tents. In 2012, the Himalayan Experience mountain climber owned a whiskey tasting yurt to complement his white golf dome tent, which has doubled as a disco. Everest even has sewer problems. When the barrels of the base camp dependence were filled, the porters dragged them to the digging pit near Gorak Shep. At the same time, over the base camp, most climbers cross small cracks to calm down. As a result, the beak has become a time bomb for droppings, and chaos is gradually slipping into base camp. In 2012, Ueli Steck, a Swiss mountaineer, told that he would not boil the snow for water in Everest Camp second because he believed that the lower temperature at that altitude won’t kill germs.

3. Sherpa’s the king of the climber on the mountain.

The tribe Sherpas — ethnic Tibetans who arrived in Nepal’s Khumbu region centuries ago has the genetic impact and the positive over their Western clients. The detailed case study in 2010 by the University of California at Berkeley explored the real genetic quality of the Sherpa identified more than 30 genetic elements that make the Sherpa bodies well-suited for high-altitude exertion.

One of them, EPAS1 is called the "super athlete gene" because it is related to the body's most efficient use of oxygen. But Sherpas sometimes lack training, experience, and proper equipment. Historically, his focus has always been on carrying loads. Until the late 1990s, it was common to see the Sherpas with tennis shoes and cotton clothes.The professionalism in the climbing has been paved due to the changing situation since 2000, better training and equipment has become more accessible. A small number of Sherpas are certified to allow them to direct clients, not just transport devices. Dawa Sherpa, who is in charge of the management of Asian trekking in Kathmandu, said that "sometimes there is no difference between the Sherpas and the Western guides.

4. The real aspect of the climbing and effective way is to be professional from the thrill-seeking amateurs.

The unlimited desire of the climbing is shifting towards the dream each year and the stories and the myth of climbing is forwarding the lifetime experiences and the dream.

Now, just because you watch a program on TV or read a book, people with little or no experience do not mean they have no knowledge about the area where you are staying or you have traveled. Maybe they have a natural tendency to excel at high altitudes. Maybe that person is lucky. Whatever the reason, you cannot assume that any old like Tom, Dick or Harriet can do this. You have to ask yourself the last question: "If my climbing Sherpa has an accident or dies before my eyes, what will I do on the day of the summit?" Well, this is a somewhat unusual problem, almost the worst situation, but you should be prepared for the worst case just in case. If you do it well in style it will also allow you to better master your exploration and success.

At very high altitudes, hypoxia can have significant effects even with supplemental oxygen and can lead to ambiguous reasoning. If you do not have a deep understanding of the skills you use, then you can use the wrong skills in the wrong circumstances, with devastating consequences.

5. The avalanche that killed the sherpa's during the earthquake

As there were many hazardous situations the people were facing around the Everest I t has killed some of them without any danger symptom and collapsed the life as well. This is very rare case, do not worry. The Devastating earthquake in 2015 April 25 has severely attacked the people there. As the Guardian has stated the  news Deadly Everest avalanche triggered by Nepal earthquake

Climbers at the Mount Everest base camp – and others trapped higher on its slopes – were locked in a desperate effort to treat injured colleagues caught in a devastating avalanche that swept through the encampment after being triggered by Saturday’s powerful earthquake.

With at least 17 people believed to have been killed on Everest, and 61 injured, climbers in the camp sent frantic messages calling for helicopter assistance to evacuate the most badly wounded.

There are around 100 climbers at camps 1 and 2 on Mount Everest, above base camp, and all are safe after an earthquake set off an avalanche, the head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said on Sunday.

Twenty-two of the most seriously injured at the base camp were taken by helicopter to Pheriche village, the nearest medical facility, Ang Tshering said on Sunday. However, bad weather and communications were hampering more helicopter sorties.

It will also be difficult to evacuate the climbers above base camp as the route back through the Khumbu Icefall was blocked, Tshering told Reuters.

The route through the Khumbu Icefall – which is fixed annually with ropes and ladders and gives access to the higher slopes – appeared to have been badly damaged.

Romanian climber Alex Gavan, who was in the base camp and survived by running from his tent, posted a desperate appeal on Twitter on Saturday.

“Huge disaster. Helped searched [sic] and rescued victims through huge debris area. Many dead. Much more badly injured. More to die if not helicopter.