Everest Power Trek

OUR WILD YAK TEAM

The success of this Journey depends on each participant’s personal status and the experience of our Team. WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS’ Team carefully selected according to their expertise in a particular environment and individual aptitudes. Our Team is thus highly experienced, skilled, trained, courteous, and supportive.

WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS’ is proud to support our local staff by providing them with a fair salary and encouraging them to take mountaineering workshops, wilderness first aid training, environmental preservation courses, garbage management, team leadership, and language refreshers regularly.

Our Trekking Guide and his role: WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS’ Trekking Guide is a professional government-trained guide with experience in directing and trekking around the Himalaya, including first aid training and in-depth knowledge of the local flora, fauna, and general environment preservation. Our Guide leads you through the Trekking and across the passes while giving you interesting information about the mountains, culture, traditions, and landscapes. He will help as an interpreter with the local populations. He ensures your safety and checks your needs throughout the trail and to the top of the pass, monitoring symptoms of high altitude sickness. Our Guide plays a vital role in taking care of our members’ needs, supervising the Team and porters, and assuring the safety requirements. He also makes sure that the rubbish is managed and the trail/campsite is kept clean throughout the trekking trip. WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS will frequently be informed about the group during the entire trekking experience.

Our Assistant Guide: Our Assistant Guide also has a government license but must work as an assistant guide for some time to become a company approved Guide. He assists the Guide with all the essential duties, ensuring safety and checking that the group’s performance runs smoothly. He is equipped with an emergency first aid kit and walks along with the members to monitor the group.

Our Porters: WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS has its reliable porters. It is their responsibility to carry your luggage during the Trekking with proper handling standards.

WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS is very concerned about the porters. We support and respect the porters’ rights and have high standards to ensure that they are treated well. We pay them a fair salary, including a bonus, and providing them with excellent food allowances, clothes, shoes, sunglasses, and medical insurance.

ACCOMMODATION & MEALS

Kathmandu: We stay at high standard Hotels on a sharing basis, including breakfasts. Depending on availability, single rooms can be booked upon request at an additional cost. All dinners are served in excellent restaurants in town where you can enjoy various cuisines, from the typical Nepali, Thai, and even steaks and Italian meals. Each restaurant has been screen by WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS representatives to ensure that it is of suitable quality for our guests.

During Trekking: We stay in the lodges (small traditional mountain guesthouses) recommended by WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS as per defined itinerary destination. Please be aware that single rooms are not available. Though there are blankets available at the lodges, we recommend bringing your sleeping bag, as the sleeping rooms are not heated, but the dining hall will be heated in most of the lodge every evening. Showers are available at the majority of lodges at an extra cost. Please note that most of the lodges the toilets are shared, except in a few of them where we provide you with attached rooms (if available), particularly at Namche, Gokyo, and Lukla, to enjoy your rest day with a shower fully.

Many lodges serve a variety of cuisines such as continental, Indian, Tibetan, and local cooking. Please note the beverages are on each participant’s charge, except coffee and a selection of teas that are served for breakfast and in the afternoons upon your arrival, as well as some special snacks provided by WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS. Lunch packages are also available on some specific days.

TRANSPORTATION

All transportations in Kathmandu are by private vehicles. Flight to Lukla and back, by two-engine Otter Aeroplane.

TYPICAL TREKKING DAY

Everest-Gokyo paths are broad and well maintained as compared to other parts of Himalayan trekking trails. While we are Trekking, our day starts with a warm wake up tea/coffee. After refreshing ourselves, we pack our luggage and proceed for breakfast. As day sets off, considering the altitude and acclimatization, we stroll towards our next destination making frequent rest breaks to take photographs, treasure the landscape, confront the culture, and admire the fascinating mountain sceneries.

A 1 to 2 hours relaxing lunch break is taken, except when crossing the passes. After the lunch break, we will spend 2 to 3 hours more on the trail before reaching the next lodge, where you will be welcomed by some warm hot tea/coffee and cookies/biscuits. Our trained Guide will accompany the group for the whole day. Before dinner, we might enjoy a short walk through the village, photographing, or chat with other group members or exceptional staff. After dinner, you will be briefed on the next day’s program.

SAFETY FEATURES

Your safety is of supreme concern while traveling with WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS. In emergencies, the group has a four (4)-liter oxygen bottle with a mask and regulator, a first aid kit, and 24-hour medical assistance by a high altitude medical team of doctors.

We are equipped with communication means, only to use in emergencies. WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS also works with the national rescue helicopter airlines.

For safety, mainly crossing the high passes, weather forecasts are provided to the Guide regularly.

Depending on some itineraries’ difficulty, WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS will secure the route using the necessary technical gear.

Please note that the above-mentioned itinerary information is purely indicative and can likely be modified during the Trekking by your Guide, who has the authority to make such changes if deemed necessary (due to safety concerns, etc.). Every effort will be made to keep to the scheduled itinerary. However, as this is an adventure trip in remote mountain regions and at high altitudes, we cannot fully guarantee it. It is necessary to consider each situation as it occurs and, consequently, adapt the program in its best way. Elements such as weather conditions, health conditions of a group member, unexpected natural disasters, among others, can all contribute to changes in the scheduled itinerary.

The Guide will ensure that Trekking runs according to the foreseen plan to benefit all the participants. Still, we thank you for being prepared for some flexibility and comprehension if so required.

Please check the degrees of difficulty while choosing a Trekking with WILD YAK EXPEDITIONS. The majority of the itineraries proposed in our Trekking Programs are in remote areas of the Himalaya and at high altitudes, mostly more elevated than the Alps. An excellent physical condition is necessary to appreciate the whole richness of this adventure.