Everest Base Camp Trek Permits

If the Everest Base Camp Trek in 2025 is your dream trek, you must learn about getting the trek permits, their price, and the offices to visit to get them. However, we’ll purchase Everest Base Camp Trek Permits for you if you plan to trek with us, which will be easy.

These permits let you trek in the Everest region for four weeks of purchase. However, after four weeks, you must renew the trek permits to extend the trekking in the Everest region. Not only to the base camp but with these permits, you can trek to Gokyo Lakes and Everest Three Passes Trek.

Trekkers queuing at permit office in Lukla to get their Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Trek Permit, one of two Everest Base Camp Trek Permit.
Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit issue office at Lukla (Image © NepTrek)

Everest Base Camp Trek Permits- In a nutshell

Permit Cost Where to get?
Sagarmatha National Park Area Permit USD 30/NPR 3000

Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu

or

Trekkers Check Post at Monjo

Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit USD 20/NPR 3000 (Increased from September 2024) Trekkers Check Post at Lukla

Trekkers Check Post at Monjo

Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project Permit (GCAP) USD 30/NPR 3000 Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu

There are two must-buy Everest Trek Permits. One is the Khumbu Pasang Rural Municipality Permit, and another is the Sagarmatha National Park Permit. These two permits are essential if you’re a foreign national who wants to trek to Everest.

A classic Everest Trek Route from Jiri/Salleri that trails through the Gaurishankar Conservation Area. Hence, to begin your trek from Jiri/Salleri, you must buy a Gaurishankar Conservation Area Permit. Trekking by foot from here assures your 100% trek success as you’ll acclimate better than others.

This blog discusses every essential information you must know on Everest Base Camp Trek permits.

Things you should know about Everest Base Camp Trek Permits in 2025

  • Get your documents ready (Passport, photo, etc.)
  • Types of permits and places to get them
  • What if you lose the permit while trekking?
  • How long can you use the permit?
  • Permit fee (Nepali rupees preferred)

Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit

Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit is available at the checkpost at Lukla and Monjo. Since the local government of the Everest region issues this permit, it’s only available at these places.

Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit is an essential Everest Base Camp Trek permit issued at Lukla and Monjo. After buying this card, you don't need a TIMS Card. In the Everest region, this permit is equivalent to TIMS Card.
A trekker holding Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit (Image © NepTrek)

After Nepal decentralized its governance in 2018, it collectively renamed the VDCs around the Lukla to Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality. The naming, Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, is an honor to Pasang Lhamu Sherpa. She’s the first Nepali woman who successfully ascended Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest).

If you fly to Lukla, you can get this permit at the municipality office and checkpost at the end of Lukla. And if you start the trek via Salleri, you can buy this permit at the national park entry check post at Monjo.

Remember that you can’t get this permit from the Nepal Tourism Board or any tour agency in Kathmandu.

The Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit fee is now Rs. 3000, which previously was Rs. 2000 only. The permit fee has been increased from September 2024.

If you’re a solo trekker, you can buy these permits at the checkpost at Lukla or Monjo. However, if you’re trekking with us by paying the full trek fee, you’ll get the trek permits included in the cost.

Sagarmatha National Park Area Permit (SNAP)

Sagarmatha National Park entry permit is a must-have Everest Base Camp Trek Permit alongside the Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality Permit. This permit is accessible at the Nepal Tourism Board in Kathmandu and the national park entry checkpost at Mojno.

For foreign nationals, this permit costs USD 30 (Rs. 3000). For Indian and SAARC nationals, this permit costs USD 15 (Rs. 1500). Moreover, for Nepal nationals, this permit costs Rs. 100.

With this permit, you’ll have full access to the Everest region for four weeks. However, if you want to trek for more than four weeks, you must pay the additional permit fee.

Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project Permit (GCAP)

If you want to experience the classic Everest Base Camp Trek via Jiri, you can start the trek from Jiri. But first, you must drive for an 8-hour drive from Kathmandu to Jiri.

Hence, to trek via Jiri, you must buy a Gaurishankar Conservation Area Permit that costs USD 30 or NPR 3000.

You can buy this permit from the Nepal Tourism Board in Kathmandu.

Documents to access Everest Base Camp Trek Permits

If you’re planning for Everest Base Camp Trek Solo, you need to have:

  • Copy of passport
  • Passport size photo (two)
  • Fillup the form at respective places for permits

If you’re planning Everest Trek with a local agency, your local agency manages the permits for you after you submit a copy of your passport and passport-sized photos. Remember that the amount you pay for the trip with a local agency includes the cost of Everest Trek permits.

A beautiful sight of Mt. Ama Dablam along with a stupa, en route to Everest Base Camp
A beautiful sight of Mt. Ama Dablam along with a stupa, en route to Everest Base Camp (Image: Sebastian Pena Lambarri)

Have plans for Everest region trekking?

Everest region trekking in the 2025 season would be an exciting adventure. Just let us know if you have plans for Everest Base Camp Trek, Gokyo Lakes Trek, Everest Gokyo Cho La Pass Trek, or Everest Three High Passes Trek. We’ll help you plan any of these wholesome adventures at the most affordable rates.

Our fixed departure Everest region trek in Spring (2025) and Autumn (2025) is now open for reservations. For further queries, please write us at mailtoneptrek@gmail.com  or WhatsApp (call/message) +977-9818553880.

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