How do we get to Mount Everest with a five day window?

Rongbuk valley is just north of Everest Tibetan side BC. To get there and back to Kathmandu I suggest you get a flight to Lhasa and 4x4 trip back to Kathmandu via Rongbuk valley...

There are still places in the world where you can not get in a few days, and if you would do it with unlimited funds (helicoper to EBC) it would kill you.

PS. copypaste "Rongbuk valley" to Google...

Pretentious? Really? What you propose strikes me as incredibly wasteful. Flying all that way just to gawk out the window of a plane. That's barely even an experience. You've obviously got too much money.

I really had no idea trollers are on all boards despite theme or topic...

Can anyone recommend a good website to buy tickets? I am having trouble on orbitz and travelocity.

Cheers

NI,

You were right... troll it was - I was trying to get work done while typing & had a mental block.

Also like the comment about pretentious travellers... :-)

Z.

The only way to get to base camp in 6 days would be to fly in and out of Lhasa, and take a chartered Landrover to the Tibetan basecamp. Big money though.

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NI- How about 'pompous"... is that better?
You may well recognize the 'waste' in whatever form - carbon footprint, etc., in the OPs travel plans, but the way you present your argument... pompous as hell! I happen to agree with your sentiment, but your manner is as embarassing as your false accusations.
Trouble is, there's just toooooooo damn many of you on TT! Why can't you just offer advice instead of judgements? No honest person that comes on these boards for help (whether you agree with their plans, ideas, motivations or whatever) needs all the snot that so many career TTers like yourself (9.29 posts per day!? When do you have time to travel?) fling at them.
You haven't asked for it, but I have some advice for you anyway... step away from your screen for awhile, get out and refresh your better senses.

Z- Why would two allegedly intelligent people come on a forum to post judgements of other people's motives as selfish, only to come off so thoroughly self-important as to illigitimize for many the very arguments you're trying to make?

These just doesn't make any sense to me as legitimate postings. ;-))

Whatever.
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HardBubble - interesting comment...
Wouldn't put it past Fossett to do that, regardless, let's hope they find him soon. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/08/fossett.ap/index.html
(Steve Fossett - millionaire aviationist/adventurer... exactly the kind of guy I'm sure NI & Z would love to be, but since they can't, love to hate.)
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Oops, sorry, here's a clickable link...

Dude, in your face extravagance is a bugbear of mine. It gets my hackles up. If people have to take expensive side trips (and stay in rediculously expensive hotels (especially in this part of the world)), I'd rather not know about it. I think the extravagance of your AVERAGE westerner is out of hand. And its not all about the environmental damage. Its mostly about the ongoing contrast between the rich and the poor.

You might like to think that if i worked more i would have fewer posts and be able to travel like OP. Its not that simple. And there's no guarantee that i'd make fewer posts. There are people on this forum who have over 30 posts a day, and they do it from work! There was a time when i had about 15 posts per day. If you have a frenzied conversation with a few people in the space of an hour or two you could find you had just made 5 posts for the day and that's just one thread. It happens, a lot in parts of TT.

Apart from that, you are entitled to your opinion.

Aldrith, If you fly to Lhasa, you will have to stay there at least 2 nights and better 3 nights to acclimatize before you dare start the drive back to Nepal. Even on the Friendship Hwy (without the side trip into Rongbuk Monastery and North Everest Base Camp, you will have 5 high passes to cross. Two of those passes are over 5000m and the others are in the 4600 to 4800m range. Coming from Bangalore (and especially if you also live at a relatively low elevation) you will be at a high risk of suffering from altitude sickness. You would need at lest 2 and probably 3 days in Kathmandu for the tour organizer to get you on a group visa for Tibet (they can get Tibet travel permits in advance but will need your original passports before they can finalize the Chinese Group Visa). Once that is all arranged and you fly to Lhasa and acclimatize for 2 or 3 days before starting the drive back to Nepal - you will have already used up your available time. It will then take a minimum of 5 days to drive back via Rongbuk Monastery. The views of Everest from the Tibet side are quite spectacular. You don't have to walk at any point if you don't want to - so that solves many of the problems - but there is no easy way to get around the time requirement nor the need for time for your body to adjust to the altitude. I'm surprised that any company would even suggest that this is possible in the short time you have available. Most Lhasa trips that include Rongbuk and North Everest Base Camp take a minimum of 9 nights/10 days.
You can take a fly in/fly out trip to Lhasa of 4 nights/5 days and see Mt. Everest from the air, but you just don't have time to do the overland trip.