Since May 1953 when New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully reached the summit of the highest mountain, or even before that time, the valley in the upper fringes of Khumbu has been serving the travelers temporary home. At 17,600 ft. the Base Camp is a small valley of rocks, pebbles and hanging glaciers, snow and ice. Each year, particularly during autumn and spring seasons. Climbers and trekkers from around the world trek up the steep and winding trial past Lukla, Namche Bazaar, Tengoche and Lobuje-to get here. Experts and the pre-acclimatized can walk up the trail within three days. Whereas the non-acclimatized ones could take more time sometimes even weeks to get here.

Rising from their tents at the break of the dawn, climbers and Sherpas carve their way to the camps through which they set out for the summit and the many camps where they stockpile food and oxygen enroute to the peak. Since 1953, hundreds of mountaineers have succeeded in ascending to the top of Everest and getting back and hundreds of perished on the mountain's treacherous slopes and hundreds of thousands have been to the Khumbu region.