
Makalu Basecamp
The print
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About the Makalu Basecamp trail
Makalu Basecamp is a 12-mile out-and-back in Makalu Barun National Park, climbing 4,938 feet between 11,293 and 16,073 feet above sea level. The steepest pitch reaches 40 percent, against an average of 412 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band. The nearest town is Lobuche, 18 miles away.
The trail
Makalu (Nepali: मकालु हिमाल, romanized: Makālu himāl; 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
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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.