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Boktoh Peak Climbing (6,114m/20,060ft.) - 29 days
Boktoh Peak (6114m/20,060ft) is located in one of the more remote areas of the Kanchenjungha South base camp. Boktoh trekking peak become famous in the spring of 1991 when a Slovenian expedition team climbed it as an acclimatization peak before attempting Kanchenjunga from its South East Ridge. The trekking trail to Kanchenjunga South base camp is one of the most spectacular trails that Nepal has to offer. It is a perfect objective for mountaineers looking for a challenging 6000m peak. It is suitable for those climbers who have previous 6000m climbing experience, several high passes and British hill experience. The peak is rarely climbed and permits have only been issued for climbs since 2002 under the authorization of the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA). Before then the peak was issued permits under the Department of Tourism. This route was opened to trekkers in 1988, though people have trekked in the area on mountaineering expeditions since the turn of the century.
The semi-technical nature of Boktoh also known as Bokta to the locals is a deceivingly complex peak that calls for skills in route finding. The Boktoh trekking route is shared with the approach to the wild Mt. Kanchenjunga. Continuing on the caravan trail past Bokta peak would bring you to Kanchenjunga’s South base camp. The Kanchenjunga region is quite special, it is more remote so it has fewer trekkers that pass through. Bokta climbing offers fantastic views of the Himalayas, from the summit you can see: Mt. Kanchenjunga (8586m/28,169ft), Kumbhakarna (7710m/25,595ft) Dhormo Peak (6850m/22,473ft).
Your journey starts with a flight to Bhadrapur followed bya drive to Phidim. The trekking takes you through several wild and remote villages such as: Khamdembe, Yamphudin, Tarading, Ramche and Octang. After you’re successful and enjoyable trip you will return to Taplejung and take a flight to Kathmandu or drive to Bhadrapur and then take a flight to Kathmandu.
Satori Adventures always focuses on safety, comfort and an enjoyable climbing experience for our clients. Satori Adventures has a unique strategy that optimizes acclimatization and allows clients to have more energy for the Bokta Peak climbing period. Satori Adventures always issues experienced, government licensed climbing Sherpa guides. Our climbing schedules and programs are designed by experienced climbing guides and Sirdars. You can rest assured that our staff will only allow you to climb peaks in safet and secure conditions. The most promising route is via the col to the North of the mountain. From a high camp at the Col, the route follows the snow slope under the right shoulder to the summit. While the slope is moderately steep, the route has exposure to rock fall.There is an icefall to access the final 400m of the route, from the col on its North side just above the icefall, along nave shoulder
Facts of the Trip
Highest access: 6114m/20,060ft
First Ascent: Slovenian team. 1991
Duration: 29 Days
Group Size: 01-10 persons per Group.
Co-ordinates: 27°37'15'' N / 88°00'25''E
Location: Kanchenjunga region
Country: Nepal
Airport: TIA (Kathmandu)
Departure From: Kathmandu
Grade: Peu Difficile + (PD+)
Accommodation: Tourist standard to five star as request
Meals: B/B plan in Kathmandu & B/L/D during the trekking and climbing period
Transportation: Car, jeep, mini bus, flight
Best season: Spring (April, May) and autumn (October, November)
Major Activity: Trekking/Climbing
Include Activity: Scenic Flight to Biratnagar
Culture: Sherpa/Rai/Limbu
Mode of Travel: Tea House/Camping
Climbing route: South East Ridge
Himalayan sights: Kanchenjungha
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Itinerary
Autumn Itinerary
07 Oct/Day 01: Arrival at Kathmandu airport, Transfer to request hotel accommodation in B&B plan (1350M/4,430ft)
08 Oct/Day 02: Preparation and briefings at the departments of tourism. Last minute shopping.
09 Oct/Day 03: Flight or Drive from Kathmandu to Biratnagar(80m/260ft) and Drive to Basantapur(2200m/7216ft, 05hrs drive 40m flight).
10 Oct/Day 04: Trek from Basantapur to Chauki(2700m/8856ft, 05-06hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
11 Oct/Day 05: Trek from Chauki to Gupha Pokhari(2930m/9610ft, 05-06hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
12 Oct/Day 06: Trek from Gupha Pokhari to Dovan(730m/2395ft, 08hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
13 octl/Day 07:Trek from Dovan to Mitlung(890m/2919ft, 06hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
14 Oct/Day 08: Trek from Mitlung to Chirwa (1185m/3888ft, 06hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
15 OctDay 09: Trek from Chirwa to Sekathum (1640m/5380ft, 05hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
16 Oct/Day 10: Trek from Sakhatum to Amjilasha (2490m/8169ft, 05hrs) Camping.
17 Oct/Day 11: Trek from Amjilesa to Gyabla (2730m/8957ft, 04hrs) tea house or Camping as request..
18 Oct/Day 12:Trek from Gyabla to Ghunsa (3430m/11253ft, 05hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
19 Oct/Day 13: Trek from Ghunsa to Kambachen (4040m/13255ft, 06hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
20 Oct/Day 14:Trek from Khambachen to Lhonak (4790m/15715ft, 06hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
21 Oct/Day 15: Trek from Lhonak to Pang Pema (5140m/16536ft, 06hrs) Back to Lhonak, Camping.
22 Oct/Day 16: Trek from Lhonak to Day Ghunsa (3430m/11253ft, 07hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
23 Oct/Day 17: Trek from Ghunsa to Khadka (3913m/12835ft, 04hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
24 Oct/Day 18: Trek form Khadka to Lapsang la (4500m/14760ft, 05hrs) tea house or Camping as request.
25 Oct/Day 19: Rest day at Lapsang La (4500m/14760ft.) for acclimatization, tea house or Camping as request.
26 Oct/Day 20: Trek from Lapsang la to High camp 5000m/50003ft) Camping.
27 Oct/Day 21: Summit Boktoh peak (6,143m/20149ft) back to Lapsang La, tea house or Camping as request.
28 Oct/Day 22:Trek from Lapsang la to Tseram (3700m/12139ft.),tea house or Camping as request.
29 Oct/Day 23: Trek from Tseram to Torontan (2865m/9400ft.), tea house or Camping as request.
30 Oct/Day 24: Trek from Torontan to Yambuden(2080m/6824ft.), tea house or Camping as request.
31 Oct/Day 25: Trek from Yambuden to Lali Khadka( 2300m/7445ft.), tea house or Camping as request.
01 Nov/Day 26: Trek from Lali khadka to Suketar(2420/7940ft.), Hotel accommodation.
02 Nov/Day 27: Flight from Suketer to Kathmandu if there are schedule flight otherwise Drive from Suketar to Kathmandu via Bhadrapur airport.
03 Nov/Day 28: Leisure day & shopping in Kathmandu. Fare well celebration dinner with culture program in the Evening.
04 Nov/Day 29: Transfer to the airport for final departure.
Trip cost
Satori Adventures has not able to include the cost of each package in the company website. Many of our clients have the same query: why Satori Adventures has not included the price in the trekking and mountaineering package. To provide you service in reasonable cost and attempt to address your each requirement we desired to provide you with some information which directly affects the cost and also helps us breakdown the cost. That’s why, we have decided to clarify our customers that due to following reasons we have not included the cost in our website and package:
- The cost of the trip always depends on the size of the group, category of the hotel accommodation and the client’s desire (budget)
- The included itinerary is a guideline and standard pattern which Satori Adventures advises you. This trekking itinerary can be modified according to your time and requirements.
- The itinerary shall be changed after an understanding between both Satori Adventures and the client. Additional activities could be either added or reduced as per client's request before the confirmation of the trip.
- Price shall be adjusted in our mutual understanding, that is, if the client intends to add some services we shall charge him/her for those additional services and if he/she intends to lessen some services, we shall wave the charges accordingly.
- The itinerary is published in full board operation services for the clear understanding of the client. Among many options such as hotel facilities in Kathmandu and Pokhara, the client can make his/her own choice.
- The cost is also affected by the number of employees‒ guides and porters.
Please feel free to contact Satori Adventures for any information about in your selected package.
Cost Includes/Excludes
Full Board Operation:
For full board customers we give an individual tent and food, which will be set up by their climbing Sherpa. We give UHF/VHF hand held radios on the mountain to keep up interchanges among ABC and high camps.
We provide a personal climbing Sherpa guide each group (2:1 ratio) to help the clients reach the summit. The secret of success on ls and is a strong and experienced climbing Sherpa. Regardless of how great and encountered the climber, it is a long trudge. Personal climbing Sherpas will set up camp. They will also carry food provisions, fuel and assist the client on the summit day.
The services we provide in the above package
(Cost Includes):
- To ensure your safety and avoid the natural panic of people entering a new destination for the first time, Satori Adventures provides pick-up and drop services from international and domestic airports on your arrivals and departures.
- Representatives of Satori adventures will be waiting for you on arrival at both domestic and international airports with a Satori banner with your placard so that you can easily find our person. Satori's identity card will accompany the person for your confirmation.
- According to the above trekking peak climbing schedule, Satori Adventures will arrange three nights demanded category (from tourist star to five-star) of hotel accommodations in Kathmandu.
- Satori Adventures will provide Experienced, and government authorized (licensed holder) high altitude trekking/climbing Sherpa guide during the trekking and climbing period.
- Surface transportation will only be included during the trekking and major city for members as per the itinerary.
- According to the schedule program, Satori Adventures arranged regular flight tickets from Kathmandu to Biratnagar , Biratnagar to Surkhetar and back to Kathmandu for climbing members and climbing Sherpa guides.
- Apart from Camping and hiking, Satori Adventures Will provide you with a lovely tea house (except chain hotels) to stay in and eat during the trekking.
- Lunch in the trekking is usually made on the way while Dinner and breakfast at the tea house where you stay overnight. Satori Adventures provides a clean and fresh breakfast, lunch, and dinner with tea/coffee at the tea house's menu throughout the trek and camping accommodation at the advance base camp during the ascent.
- Satori adventures will provide all the essentials for trekking, peak climbing, rowing, and camping at the advanced base camp.
- During the ascent, satori adventures will provide a chef cook and cook assistant at the advanced base camp to take care of your food and drink.
- Satori Adventures allow up to 20kg of personal climbing equipment per person during the flight onboard and during trekking carried by porter/yak/mules.
- The offer cost includes Boktoh peak climbing royalty and climbing permit of Boktoh peak charged by the Nepal government. (Permit issued by Nepal mountaineering association)
- As Boktoh Peak is at Kanchenjunga National Park's territory, Satori adventures provide you a permit for Kanchenjunga National Park and Immigration permit.
- The Trekkers' Information Management Systems permit issued by the trekking agency association of Nepal is required to enter the area of Kanchenjunga National Park, so Satori adventures provide you a TIMS permit too.
- As far as possible, regular weather reports are stated throughout the mountaineering period.
- Satori Adventures provides all wages, clinical, equipment, and accidental insurance for all elaborate staff in the journeying and climbing.
- We provide first aid medical kits for the group and the staff, taking care of your climbing and health safety.
- Trekking and mountaineering are often inaccessible and far from information, communication, and transportation in the Himalayas, so information communication is a significant factor for safety and a successful trip. That's why Satori Adventures provides satellite phones with your hiker and climber Sherpa guide.
- Satori Adventures provides V25 north face two main model tents with comfortable mattresses at the advanced base camps and high camps for members and involved staff.
- Satori Adventures offers dynamic / Static Rope, Ice Screws, Snow bar, Rock piton, lucked unlocked Karabiners to open the route and fixed the life for safe and successful climbing.
- During your climbing expedition, satori adventures offer you clean, Nutritious, and fresh food at the advanced base camp. For those trekking peak where it requires high camps or the first camps before attempting the summit, we provide you nutrition high altitude package food and essential EPI cooking gas and stoves to boiled water, tea, coffee, and warm the pocket food.
- Satori Adventure always has concerned and top priority about our trekking guides, climbing Sherpa guides, cooks, porters, and involved staff safety during the period of trekking and high mountain climbing. For this reason, we always do medical insurance, helicopter evacuation insurance, and treatment insurance for all involved staff with a reputed insurance company.
- For your convenience, we always provide maps of related trekking and trekking peak climbing.
- The above offer price includes our official service charges, government charges, and all taxes and vat. Except for the above amount, there are not any hidden costs charged by us.
- If you need any assistance with departure information, Flight ticket reconfirmation, Visa extension procedure services, Satori adventures fully support you without any charges.
- We want to offer you to have dinner with us before you departed from Kathmandu. It will be an opportunity for you to see and learn about Nepali culture and tradition. Thus, satori adventures offer you farewell dinner at a typical Nepali restaurant with a cultural show in Kathmandu before departure.
- Before your departure, as a memory of your life, Satori Adventures would like to handover Satori T-shirt/Pashmina and Brochure.
Things you need to manage yourself in the package above(Cost Exclude):
- Kathmandu is Nepal's capital, and since this place offers high quality and delicious food from different countries and groups, we were hoping you could taste the food you like. For that reason, during your stay in Kathmandu, you will have to arrange lunch and dinner (except farewell dinner) yourself.
- Suppose you want to take any packed food, snacks, aerated drinks, energy drinks, mineral water, and carbonated soft drinks, any types of alcohol, cigarettes, chocolates, and nutria-bars during the trek. In that case, you have to buy it yourself as a customer often requires these items during the trekking. No, and there is no guessing how much it will take by the client and its cost.
- Expenses incurred towards usage of personal nature trekking and climbing equipment, laundry expenses, tips, Landlines, mobiles, walkie-talkies, satellite phones, and the internet service not included in the package. You have to pay for it yourself when you use it.
- Mountaineering is, in itself, a risky and adventurous activity that always takes place in remote areas. So, safety is the primary factor for us. Therefore, you have to have your travel insurance covering the cost of emergency rescue, medical treatment, medical tests, and hospitalization before you arrive for the trip to Nepal.
- The package cost offered above does not include your international flight ticket and Nepal's tourist visa, so that you have to pay for your international flight ticket and tourist visa yourself.
- Any extra expenses arising out of various/unforeseen situations like natural disasters, landslides, political disturbances, strikes, changes in government regulations costs not included in the package cost.
- An additional cost is added if you need extra workers then what we have included in the package.
- The short sentence, "The services we provide in the above package cost inclusive,” will cost extra if you want additional services.
- Employees involved in your trekking and mountaineering are hoping for tips, gifts, or something at the end of the trip, which is an opportunity to say how happy you are with our staff and what kind of service you have rendered.
How to Book?
How to book holiday trip in Nepal?
Satori Adventures and Expedition aims at giving proper information to many travelers, trekkers and climbers who have some confusion regarding the booking process of the trip in Nepal. Satori Adventures therefore desires to provide guideline for the first-time visitors or travelers so that they can comfortably start the process to book the selected package legally. Before starting the booking process we always advise our trekkers, travelers and climbers to intelligently check whether the company is genuine and whether they are fully safe to travel in the company’s guidance. We ask them to be acquainted with the company they want book their holiday trip with. Is the company genuine and authorized from Government of Nepal, Office of the Company Registrar, Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal Rastra Bank ‒Central Bank of Nepal (authorized for foreign currency), Permanent Account Number (PAN), and the Department of Cottage & Small Industries). Are they financially secured and environmentally conscious? We advise them to make sure about these formalities because there are some companies in Nepal that have been running business without abiding by the rules and regulation of the Government. Some companies were once registered but by now their licenses have already been expired and yet they have providing the services illegally.
On many occasions, Government of Nepal and Trekking Agency Association of Nepal have found that many foreigners’ tour operators, NGOs and INGOs have been involved in directly operating tours, trekking, and mountaineering holiday adventures without having government license and abiding by the Government rules. It has been also found that many individuals, freelance guides and porters have been arranging trips illegally by creating their own personal website. We have observed that many trekkers and climbers face a host of problems once they arrive in Kathmandu as they lack adequate information. Many of them file complaints to Government of Nepal and Trekking Agency Association of Nepal for legal action such as the refund of the advanced payment. There is hardly any justice given to the cheated clients. Thus, so as to prevent all these probable problems we request our travelers to check the company before booking any trip to the Himalayas.
To conform and process your trip booking please follow these suggestions:
- Please select the package itinerary and details from our website, that is make sure which package you want to book with us.
- At the bottom of the itinerary (end of the page of the package) you have the following options: Book now, ask expert, write a review and print. Once you click book now bottom it will l take you to booking page; ask expert will allow you to e-mail us in case of any query related to the package.
- Our typical itinerary includes transfer from and to the airport. We can provide you with any type of accommodation‒from budget to 5 Stars. So please indicate class of hotel you wish us to book or alternatively name your preferred hotel. You can also state all additional services apart from those mentioned in the itinerary.
- The web page itinerary is a guideline and a standard pattern which helps you plan your trip. It can be changed or modified according to your time & requirements.
- If you wish to expand the itinerary with additional activities, please let us know by mail. Satori Adventures builds your customized itinerary with the adjusted price.
- There are many fixed departure dates and itinerary packages in Trekking and Mountaineering in our package. If you wish to join with our fixed departure with group, please contact us. The cost in this option is always pretty low compared to a private trip.
- Before you confirm the trip you have to read and understand what is included and excluded in the cost. It is also important to read terms and conditions. If you require additional services which are not included in cost please mention them all in the booking form.
- Please contact us if you are still unclear about the information or required service.
- You have to read our Terms and Conditions before you book the trip; it explains to you the booking timing, the deposit and advance payment requirements, policies, procedures for cancellation, refund and the payment classification.
- Once we have agreed mutually on itinerary you required and the price for the trip, you have to send us the deposit to confirm the booking as specified in our quotation according to our Terms and Conditions.
- Once we receive the advance payment from you, we will process to confirm your trip.
- Without conformation and advance received we may not process for Permits, TIMS, Flight Tickets, Trekking and climbing Guide, Porters and other necessary Staff for trekking and expedition along with food, transportation, etc.
- With your conformation of the trip and advance payments we require copy of your travel document (passport), passport size photo, and your flight reservation details.
- For details on the payments of the trip and time frame you have to follow our terms and conditions.
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