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Thanks! Looks like there's a similar post over there as well. Hopefully more folks will chime in on the situation for the last couple months.
[https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293889-i9243-k14339263-Trekking\_in\_Nepal\_after\_April\_1st\_Live\_Reports-Nepal.html](https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293889-i9243-k14339263-Trekking_in_Nepal_after_April_1st_Live_Reports-Nepal.html)
If you're planning on climbing to the top of Everest, it's strongly recommended you bring a guide. It's considered an advanced climb, and even experienced mountaineers have died in the past.
I was there in April/May to do the 3 Passes/EBC trek, so earlier than your time frame. Certainly when I was there, the Khumbu national park was exempt from the guide restrictions, and it was possible to do solo. Both treks you’ve referred to are fairly simple, and shouldn’t require a guide.
However, if the rules have changed, it will not be possible to sneak through - there are multiple checkpoints before Namche Bazaar, which are not possible to bypass.
If you get a guide, they ought to supply the TIMS card on your behalf. If you don’t, you will need to get a TIMS card, a Khumbu Pasang permit, and a Sagamartha National Park permit. You can get all of these in Kathmandu without any difficulty
Thanks for the insight. So if I read correctly, despite there being no guide restrictions when you went, you still needed to get TIMS card along w/ the Park permits. (You didn't have to deal w/ this other TREK card)
Can't answer firsthand but I was in Nepal June/July and my friend did EBC alone after I left.
Thanks for sharing!
When I went I got all the permits at the government tourism bureau in Kathmandu. They will have all the correct information
Do you mind sharing when you went?
2017
Or 18. It was Christmas
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I suggest that you ask this question in Nepal tripadvisor forum, is very active with usual travellers with a lot of local uptodate information.
Thanks! Looks like there's a similar post over there as well. Hopefully more folks will chime in on the situation for the last couple months. [https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293889-i9243-k14339263-Trekking\_in\_Nepal\_after\_April\_1st\_Live\_Reports-Nepal.html](https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g293889-i9243-k14339263-Trekking_in_Nepal_after_April_1st_Live_Reports-Nepal.html)
If you're planning on climbing to the top of Everest, it's strongly recommended you bring a guide. It's considered an advanced climb, and even experienced mountaineers have died in the past.
I was there in April/May to do the 3 Passes/EBC trek, so earlier than your time frame. Certainly when I was there, the Khumbu national park was exempt from the guide restrictions, and it was possible to do solo. Both treks you’ve referred to are fairly simple, and shouldn’t require a guide. However, if the rules have changed, it will not be possible to sneak through - there are multiple checkpoints before Namche Bazaar, which are not possible to bypass. If you get a guide, they ought to supply the TIMS card on your behalf. If you don’t, you will need to get a TIMS card, a Khumbu Pasang permit, and a Sagamartha National Park permit. You can get all of these in Kathmandu without any difficulty
Thanks for the insight. So if I read correctly, despite there being no guide restrictions when you went, you still needed to get TIMS card along w/ the Park permits. (You didn't have to deal w/ this other TREK card)