Everest Base Camp Trek Permits
If the Everest Base Camp Trek in 2024 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 trek all three high passes.
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 2024
- 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.
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.
This permit costs USD 20 (Rs. 2000). You can pay in dollars or Nepali currency. However, upon booking Everest Base Camp Trek 12 days with a trekking agency like us, it includes this permit fee.
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.
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 2000 | Trekkers Check Post at Lukla
Trekkers Check Post at Monjo |
| Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project Permit (GCAP) | USD 30/NPR 3000 | Nepal Tourism Board, Kathmandu |
Everest Base Camp Trek in 2024 with us
Getting Everest Base Camp Trek Permit in Spring and Autumn can be a headache. These two seasons see hundreds of independent trekkers queuing to get Everest to trek permits.
For the first time in Nepal, you will need help reaching the Nepal Tourism Board, being in a queue, exchanging money, and getting the permit. Also, you’ll waste a whole day getting one permit.
The best way is to reach out to local travel agencies in Nepal, like NepTrek, and us, which can aid you. With us, you’ll have your Everest Trek permits and other trek permits before the trek starts. Our representatives manage every necessary trek permit for you.Also, our fixed departure Everest Base Camp Trek in March, April, and May is now open for reservations. Feel free to reach mailtoneptrek@gmail.com or call(WhatsApp) +977-9818553880 for further queries about Everest Trek in Spring 2023.
