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Journey to Everest: This is how supplies for climbers are transported to the base camp

Porters carrying stuff to Lukla airport from Namche bazaar, a town on the way to Everest base camp.

Every year hundreds of people climb Mount Everest from Nepal in May. Apart from chartered helicopters, there are no means of transport up to the base camp, where trekkers start the gruelling climb up the highest mountain in the world. The nearest regular commercial flights land at Lukla in Solukhumbhu district of northeastern Nepal – about 65 kilometres from base camp. All the climbers’ equipment and belongings have to be carried this distance by yaks, mules or porters.

The story first appeared on The Third Pole. Find the original version here.

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