
Makalu Base Camp Trek
The print
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About the Makalu Base Camp Trek trail
Makalu Base Camp Trek (Makalu Barun National Park) is a 28.9-mile point-to-point route with 17,434 feet of gain. Elevation ranges from 2,372 feet to 16,053 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 54 percent, against an average of 603 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band. The nearest town is Lobuche, about 18 miles away.
The trail
Makalu (Nepali: मकालु हिमाल; Chinese: 马卡鲁峰; pinyin: Mǎkǎlǔ Fēng) is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres (27, 838 ft) AMSL. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 km (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest, on the China-Nepal border. One of the eight-thousanders, Makalu is an isolated peak shaped like a four-sided pyramid.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Tin Shedmi 9.6
- Kauma Lami 9.6
- Ghungru Lami 11.5
- Keke Lami 13.5
- Terraces & Animal Sheltermi 15.2
- Makalu Base Campmi 28.9
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Trail geometry and place names for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data.













