Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour

Share your preferred travel date, the number of passengers, exact passenger weights, and baggage details with Mountain Helicopters Nepal. Our operations team will verify helicopter availability, weather conditions, airport status, and total payload to ensure the flight can be operated safely. Once everything is confirmed, you will receive your final itinerary, reporting time, meeting point, and baggage allowance, so you can prepare for a smooth and hassle-free journey.

There at the airport, our ground team will have already processed your permit documentation the previous day, and at the helipad you will undergo weight checking of luggage and passengers. If the total weight exceeds the allowed limit, some baggage will need to be stored or sent on the next helicopter flight, and an extra charge will apply.

The helicopter will lift off from Kathmandu, heading northeast, and you will immediately see an open view of the Kathmandu Valley, the city, temples, etc. Within 10 minutes, you will have a view of the Himalayan foothills and the first line of the middle hills. Our pilot provides live commentary, identifying landmarks and peaks as they come into view.

The helicopter makes a refueling stop at Lukla airport before continuing deeper into the Khumbu. Lukla is famous for its extremely short runway (527 meters). It is a one-end uphill design on a mountain cliff at the far end. While refueling you can step out shortly and observe the airport, which serves as a trekking gateway for all Everest expeditions. The stop takes approximately 15-20 minutes before the helicopter continues northeast towards Everest Base Camp.

Namche Bazaar is the vibrant gateway to the Everest region, dramatically built into a natural amphitheater on the mountainside. From the air, its distinctive horseshoe-shaped settlement stands out against the rugged Himalayan landscape, with colorful buildings and terraced slopes spreading across the valley. Known as the commercial and cultural heart of the Khumbu, Namche has long been a meeting point for trekkers, climbers, Sherpa communities, and traders heading deeper into the mountains.

A most holy site for the Buddhists in the region, located on the edge of a steep cliff ridge in between Imja and Dudh Kosi valley. It is the most famous Buddhist monastery in the Khumbu region. This monastery was built in 1916 and was destroyed by the 1934 earthquake, it was rebuilt but again burned in a fire in 1989 and then restored again in 1993. On clear autumn days, the sound of monks praying echoes in the valley.

The helicopter carries passengers in small groups toward Everest Base Camp (5,364m), flying over the dramatic Khumbu Glacier and Khumbu Icefall. The helicopter makes a brief landing at the base camp, giving passengers the opportunity to step out, take photographs, and experience the extraordinary landscape surrounding the world's highest mountain. From the ground, passengers can see the vast glacier, towering ice formations, and, depending on the season, expedition tents and climbing activity around the base camp. After a few minutes at the landing site, the helicopter returns to Pheriche to collect the remaining passengers. Once everyone has completed the EBC landing, the entire group reunites at Pheriche and boards the helicopter together for the return flight to Kathmandu.

The Heli  route back down through the Khumbu Valley, past Tengboche, across Namche, over the Dudh Koshi gorge, with a possible fuel stop in Lukla, and then south over the foothills back to Kathmandu. This is a short 45- 55-minute flight. We pick you up from the helipad and drop you off right at the domestic terminal.