Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour

The Everest base camp helicopter tour offers an aerial view of snow-capped high mountains view from a helicopter flight. This luxury flight tour is highly recommended for the people who have limited time in Kathmandu and would like to see the highest mountain in the world and its range. Also the Everest base camp helicopter tour is good for the people who are unable to walk all the way to the base camp.

It is the Everest base camp helicopter landing tour which lands in 3 different locations like in the Everest view hotel, the Kala Patthar and it lands in Lukla for fuel refill.

The flight tour begins with picking up you from the hotel where you stay by private transport and takes to the airport then flies towards the Everest base camp. The helicopter lands in Lukla for refilling the fuel after about an hour flight from Kathmandu. Then the helicopter flies over the beautiful Sherpa villages like Namche Bazaar and lands in the Everest view hotel. Half of the visitors will drop off here and enjoy the breakfast in the Everest view hotel with a panoramic view of the Everest Himalaya. Some visitors will fly towards the base camp and lands in Kala Patthar to take some beautiful capture of the Himalayas from a close view. After taking some photographs from Kala Patthar flies over the base camp and sees glacier and mountains then returns back to the Everest view hotel and drop off who visited the base camp.

After dropping off to the first visitors, the helicopter will fly again towards the base camp with the people who were dropped off on the way before and do the same activities then come back to the Everest view hotel again. Here, all the passengers will fly back to Kathmandu after enjoying the view.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour Cost

The Everest base camp helicopter tour is a luxury flight tour that you can have a great experience of the Himalayas, landscape and much more from a closer distance. It is a bit expensive tour than the regular mountain flight tour with a plane. The mountain flight tour with a plane just flies over the mountain and does not go very close and impossible to land up in the mountain. But the helicopter flight will land in Kala Pathar and the Everest view hotel so you have more chances to enjoy the view of the Himalayas and landscapes.

The Everest base camp helicopter flight tour is a sharing flight with other people. One shuttle can fly with 5 people and flies twice to the base camp with 3 people and 2 people after the Everest view hotel. It cost 950 USD per person and 4000 USD if you charter as a private flight. This price includes ground transport from your hotel to the airport and drops off to the hotel, helicopter flight and airport tax.

Best Time For The Flight

The helicopter flight to the Everest base camp operates usually in the morning. The clouds will be in the valley with mist and will be clear weather in the higher area. After the second week of September to December and March to May are the best timings for the Everest base camp helicopter flight tour. These months offer clear visibility so you can enjoy the view.

Winter is also not bad but clouds cover the Himalaya earlier and summer has lots of cloudy days and rain. Summer is not a good time for the flight.

Take passport with you because you need it for check-in at the airport. Take a camera for the photo and wear warm clothes. You might feel cold when the helicopter lands in the Everest view hotel and Kala Patthar.

Hello Everyone! I am Rajesh Thapaliya working in the Nepalese tourism industry as a trekking/ tour operator. Trekking and Tour Company in Neppal