When Kami Rita Sherpa set out on his first expedition to Mount Everest in 1992, he had to trek nearly a month just to reach the Everest Base Camp.
Since there were no regular flights to Lukla back then – a small town in north-eastern Nepal which today is a popular starting point for climbing the world’s highest peak – his team had to hike for several weeks from Jiri, a town around 190km north-east of the capital Kathmandu, all the way up to the base camp.
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