Itinerary details of Autumn 2024
01 Sept/Day 01: Arrival in Kathmandu Airport and transfer to hotel Yak and Yeti or similar hotel accommodation in Kathmandu (1350M/4430ft).
02 Sep/Day 02: Preparation, briefings, last minute shopping and permit formalities.
03 Sep/Day 03: Drive from Kathmandu to Arughat (950m/3117ft) 7hrs. Tea house/camping
04 Sep/Day 04: Trek from Arughat to Sotikhola (1165m/3822ft) 5hrs. Tea house/camping
05 Sep/Day 05: Trek from Sotikhola to Machhakhola(1330m/4364ft) 6hrs. Tea house/camping
06 Sep/Day 06: Trek from Machhakhola to Jagat(1350m/4430ft) 4hrs. Tea house/camping
07 Sep/Day 07: Trek from Jagat to Dang(2300m/7546ft) 6-7hrs. Tea house/camping
08 Sep/Day 08: Trek from Dang to Namrung(2550m/8366ft) 6hrs. Tea house/camping
09 Sep/Day 09: Trek from Namrung to Lho (3150m/10334ft) 5hrs. Tea house/camping.
10 Sep/Day 10: Trek from Lho to Sama Gaun(3780m/12401ft) 4hrs. Tea house/camping
11 Sep/Day 11: Rest and acclimatization day at Sama Gaun (3780m/12401ft) Tea house/camping
12 Sep/Day 12: Trek from Sama Village to Manaslu Base Camp (4700m/15420ft) 4hrs. Camping at base camp
13-1Oct/Day13-31: Climbing period. (8163m/26781ft.) Camping.
02 Oct/Day 32: Preparation to return to Kathmandu. Clean base camp (4700m/15420ft)
03 Oct/Day 33: Trek from Base Camp to Sama Gaun (3780m/12401ft) 3hrs. Tea house.
04 Oct/Day 34: Trek from Sama Gaun to Namrung(2550m/8366ft) 6hrs. Tea house/camping.
05 Oct/Day 35: Trek from Namrung to Philim village (2300m/7546ft-06hrs) Tea house/camping.
06 Oct/Day 36: Trek from Philim Village to Machakhola(1330m/4664ft) 6hrs. Tea house/ camping
07 Oct/Day 37: Trek from Machakhola to Arughat (950m/3117ft) 8hrs. Tea house/camping.
08 Oct/Day 38: Drive from Arughat to Kathmandu (1350m/4429ft) 7 hrs. Transportation provided by tourist mini bus.Hotel accommodation in Kathmandu.
09 Oct/Day 39: Free day, Relax and shop in Kathmandu. Farewell celebration dinner with cultural program in the evening.
10 Oct/Day 40: Transfer to Kathmandu airport for final departure.
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 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 facilities that you aspire in the mountain.
- We operate the peak climbing in full arrangement package and basic arrangement service (full board or base camp service) which directly affects the expedition cost.
- The itinerary may be changed after reaching an understanding between the agency and the client. Other activities could be added or reduced as per the client's request before processing the trip. Price for reduced activities could be deducted and additional activities could be added in mutual understanding.
- The number of climbing Sherpa guides, high altitude porters, kitchen crew, mode of transport you prefer and many other factors can affect the cost of the trip.
- Number of persons in group including; number of climbers, non-climber, base camp supporters, medical doctors, Alpine climbing guide also affect the cost.
- Either you want to operate this expedition as international group joining basics of Satori Adventures or individual (private arrangement) expedition.
- Request numbers of oxygen, mask regulators and the brands the clients require
- Climbing season: normally most of the climbers climb Himalayas in the spring and the autumn season. The climbing permit royalty cost for mountain will be 50% less in the autumn than spring season.
- Type of high camp food that clients require. Any specialized food that has to be ordered from foreign country will be costlier compared to the one available here.
- Either any of the climbers intend to attempt any world records? If so, do they require special services or equipment?
Due to the above position the price range for the same trip can vary widely. So, we would like to discuss with our client before offering the cost. Please feel free to contact Satori Adventures for any information about in your selected package.
Full Board:
Satori Adventures offers Full Board Service for our entire range of flagship Mountaineering Expeditions to all 8000m peaks. Our Full Board service means that we will provide a Trekking service, an in-Base camp service and High camp service executed by your Sherpa Climbing Guide. All our Full Board clients will have a personal Sherpa Climbing guide exclusively dedicated to the client for the duration of the climb.
Our climbing Sherpa guide team will establish and secure climbing route in collaboration with other climbing teams participating on the route; Establish all high camps with camping equipment, provisions and oxygen and prepare high altitude food for his client; Assist his client on the route and ensure client safety and well being on the route through guiding and negotiating the route access priorities at pace and schedule determined by clients’ physical condition and preferred pace; Ensure total commitment to the client in case of emergency with clients’ safety and wellbeing as overriding priority.
High camp service for Full Board Service clients will consist of provision of all equipment necessary to fix the route, all camping equipment, fuel and food for high camps as well as oxygen provision, including mask and regulator and latest model of Poisk oxygen, Summit system of Mask regulators in quantities specified in your climbing itinerary as per height of Mountain.
Cost Include:
- 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
Manaslu Expedition climbing schedule, Satori Adventures
will arrange four 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 (Expedition leader) during the
trekking and climbing.
- Surface transportation
will only be included during the trekking and major city for members as
per the scheduled itinerary.
- Surface transportation From Kathmandu to Arughat and Arughat to Kathmandu for all members and Involving staffs.
- Satori
Adventures will provide you with a lovely tea house accommodation (except
chain hotels) to stay in and eat during the trekking trails.
- Lunch in
the trekking is usually made on the way, while dinner and breakfast are
made 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 and
Camp-02 during the ascent of Mount Manaslu.
- Satori Adventures will
arrange all food and fuel for base camp and higher camps during the Manaslu expedition
for
both members and expedition crews.
- Satori Adventures
provide EPI Cooking gas, and the stove will be provided in camps one,
three, and south col for cooking food, tea, coffee, boiling water, and
heating nutrition high altitude package food.
- Satori Adventures will
provide all the essentials for trekking, Manaslu
climbing,
rowing, and camping at the advanced base camp.
- Climbing Mt. Manaslu
duration takes more than other 8000m and brings an extended stay at the
Advance base camp. Items like kitchen tents, stores tent, dining tents,
toilet tents, tables, chairs, and cooking utensils are high quality and
branded, where we will try to provide more convenience.
- During the ascent of Mount Manaslu, Satori Adventures
will provide a chef cook, cook assistant, helper, and base camp manager at
the advanced base camp to take care of your food, drinks, and other
necessary services your good and comfort.
- Satori Adventures
allow up to 60kg of personal climbing equipment per person during the
flight onboard and during trekking in Manaslu
expedition carried
by porter/ yak/ mules.
- The offer cost
includes Mount Manaslu south regular route climbing royalty and the Nepal
Government's climbing permit. (Permit issued by Department of Tourism)
- As Mount Manaslu Peak
is located at Manaslu Conversation territory, Satori adventures provide
you a permit for Manaslu Conservation Permit.
- The Trekkers'
Information Management Systems permit issued by the trekking agency
association of Nepal is required to enter the area of Manaslu
Consversation
so Satori Adventures provides you a TIMS permit too.
- The right weather is a
crucial factor in a safe and successful ascent. As far as possible, we
will provide a regular upcoming day's weather forecast from the Kathmandu
office for the Manaslu climb duration.
- Satori Adventures
provides all wages, clinical, equipment, and accidental insurance for all
elaborate staff in the journey 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 and
communication are significant for safety and a successful trip. That's why
Satori Adventures provides satellite phones, walkie-talkies (radio set)
with the expedition team leader, and your climbing Sherpa guide. Satellite
phones available for members at the cost of US$ 3 per minute call.
- Satori Adventures
provides V25 north face two main model tents with comfortable mattresses
at the advanced base camps, and above the advance camp, two members have
one tent. (In advance base camp 1:1 tent and above base camp 2:1 tent as
per safety.)
- Satori Adventures
offers dynamic/static rope, ice screws, snow bar, and rock piton locked
unlocked Carabiners to open the route and for safe and successful
climbing.
- Satori Adventures
arrange a generator for back- up lighting power and charge electronic
tools if solar panels are not enough for light and charge the battery.
- Satori Adventures
arrange transportation, service of food, all needed expedition, content
supply to Base Camp from Kathmandu and return to Kathmandu ( by porter/ Yaks to base camp and return)
- Satori Adventures will
try to make the base camp as convenient as possible. We will provide you a
heater at the base camp for heating the dining room during cold
temperatures (mostly required for evening and morning).
- Health is a prime
concern during your climbing expedition. This is why Satori Adventures
include emergency oxygen, mask, and regulator provided to guest and
expedition staff requirements.
- Till
the date, there's no available alternative to electricity or lighting at
the Manaslu , so that Satori Adventures provides solar panels or
generators for lighting, battery, and mobile charging at the base camp.
- Satori Adventures
include Icefall charges , Summit
rope cost charged by Expedition Operators Association, and Himalayan
Rescue Association medical insurance charged in the package cost.
- For the climbing
proposal of acclimatization and summit target, Satori Adventures included
all tents for camps 1, 2, 3, and 4 for members and staff.
- During your climbing
expedition, Satori Adventures offer you clean, nutritious, and fresh food
at the advanced base camp and camp two in Manaslu. We provide you
nutrition, high altitude package food, and essential EPI cooking gas and
stoves to boiled water, tea, coffee, and warm pocket food above the
advanced base camp.
- Satori Adventures
provides all food and fuel for both members and crews at advanced base
camps and higher camps during the Manaslu expedition.
- We offer each climber
One Experienced, Trained, Government Licensed, and 03 Times Everest
Summiters Climbing / Expedition Guide (Sherpa) per client with the idea
of making your ascent safe and successful. There will also be one
experience and professional Leader, Sherpa, for each expedition
group.
- The package cost
includes all wages, equipment allowance, and the load carries bonus for
involved staff in trekking and climbing expedition.
- The package cost
includes all wages, equipment, medical and accidental insurances for the
liaison officer.
- 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.
- As Mount Manaslu’s ascent
is long, the stay at Camp two is more extended due to acclimatization. We
also take care of our climbers in Camp two and arrange kitchen dining
arrangements to supply freshly cooked food.
- For your convenience,
we always provide maps of related trekking and trekking peak climbing.
- During the climbing
period of summit target, Satori Adventures included Two bottles (08
liters) of Poisk Oxygen will be provided to each climbing member (we use
Poisk brands of Oxygen which is one of the trustful oxygen brands for high
altitude)
- As adequate quality
oxygen, masks and regulators are crucial during Everest climbing. We
provide masks and regulators from the latest model of summit or top out
brands.
- Before your departure,
as a memory, Satori Adventures would like to handover Satori T-shirt/
Pashmina and Brochure.
- If you need any
assistance with departure information, flight ticket reconfirmation, Visa
extension procedure services, Satori Adventures fully support you without
any charges.
- 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.
- 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.
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) by 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.
There's no guess on how much and will take by the client and its cost.
- Expenses are incurred
towards personal nature trekking, climbing equipment, laundry expenses,
tips, landlines, mobiles, walkie-talkies, satellite phones, and the
internet service is not included in the package. You have to pay for it
yourself when you use it.
- Personal climbing
equipment is one of the significant factors for your safe and successful
climbing. So you have to arrange all your personal climbing equipment
brand and quality on your own.
- 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
arrange 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 by yourself.
- Any extra expenses
arising out of various/ unforeseen situations like natural disasters,
landslides, political disturbances, strikes, changes in government
regulations costs are not included in the package cost.
- Additional costs if
needed extra workers, than what we have included in the package.
- As per the
Mountaineering Association and Department of Tourism rules, after the
successful summit, the climbing member has to pay a summit bonus for
climbing Sherpa Guides US$ 1200.00 minimum to be paid before departure
from Kathmandu.
- Our
involved expedition staff (chef cook, cook, cook assistance, base camp
manager) 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 thank
you for the kind of service you have rendered. Normally US$ 200.00 per
person collected by the team leader and divide to all involved base camp
staff except climbing Sherpa guide.
- The short sentence,
"All the services not mentioned in the above package (cost
includes parts) are excluded," It will cost extra if you
want additional services.
Manaslu Base Camp Trek
In the Base Camp: Satori Adventure provides very professional, supportive and friendly mountaineering logistic services. The approach from Kathmandu to the Sama Gaun village takes roughly 10 days. From Sama Gaun you climb up to Manaslu Base camp. Throughout your approach and climbing period Satori provides a high quality, supportive, safe, friendly, stress free and comprehensive service to maximize your summit opportunity.
We provide a comprehensive service organizing all necessary permits, climbing documentation, travelling logistics (including airfares), ground transportation, porters, and other individual services required by mountaineers. On the trek to the ABC we organize all required accommodation and food.
In the Base camp our cooks and helpers will prepare and serve three delicious freshly cooked meals a day. Satori also ensures that hot and cold drinks as well as healthy snacks are available 24hrs a day. In the Base Camp we provide spacious and durable 4 season personal tents for all of our clients. This comes with full board or base-camp services only. In the base camp we also provide a dining tent, kitchen tent, toilet facilities and portable shower facilities as well as tent accommodation for our staff. In the Base Camp we provide access to communication including a satellite telephone, internet access, and solar panels to charge your batteries.
Base Camp Service Cost Includes
- All arrival and departure transfer services to and from International airport with other necessary surface transport as per itinerary.
- Assistance at the Kathmandu international airport by Satori Adventure during your arriving and departing flights.
- 4 Nights request category hotel accommodations in Kathmandu on B/B basis.
- Experienced and government licensed trekking and climbing Sherpa guide during the trekking and climbing period.
- Appropriate number of porters during the trekking period.
- Land transportation from Kathmandu-Arughat-Kathmandu for all clients, Sherpa guide, liaison officer and kitchen staff.
- All Satori Adventure kitchen tent, storage tent, dining tent, client tents, toilet tents, tables, chairs and cooking utensils at base camp.
- Common climbing equipment like rope, ice bars, ice screws, and snow bar.
- 3 meals a day: Breakfast, lunch and dinner with tea and coffee.
- Accommodation at hotel/lodge/guest house or tent camps during the trekking period.
- All camping accommodation for members and staff during trekking and climbing period. You will be sharing sleeping quarters with one other member.
- All food and fuel for base camp during climbing period.
- 50kg baggage allowance per person during trekking period. will be carried by porter/mules.
- Daily weather report services from Seattle, Washington based company.
- Services of chef and kitchen assistant at advanced base camp.
- Trekking permit (Manaslu Conservation Park entry fee).
- TIMS card (Trekking Information Management System).
- Manaslu restricted area trekking permit during the period of expedition.
- Expedition royalty and permit of Nepal government to climb Mt. Manaslu.
- Nepalese government royalty.
- All wages, equipment, medical and accident insurance for all involved staff during the trekking and climbing period.
- Helicopter rescue insurance for all involved expedition staff.
- Medical consultation services at the base camp with the HRA clinic at the base camp.
- Equipment allowances and wages for chefs, kitchen assistants and government liaison officer.
- First aid medical kits for the group and the staff.
- Satellite phone carried by the guide for communication available upon request for clients with the cost of $3USD per minute.
- Heater will be provided at base camp for the dining tent.
- Emergency oxygen mask and regulator provided for clients if needed. Appropriate charge will apply.
- Each expedition member will have an individual tent available in the Manaslu advanced base camp.
- Solar panel for light and electronics charging.
- Gamow Bags (Portable hyperbolic chambers) for high altitude sickness.
- We provide Sherpa's tents, food for climbing, and insurance.
- Free assistance service for cargo clearance and duties.
- Transportation of food supply from Kathmandu to base camp by porter/mules.
- Our service charge and government taxes levied in Nepal.
- Complete per-departure information.
- Flight ticket reconfirmation and visa extension procedure services.
- Farewell dinner in a typical Nepali restaurant with cultural show in Kathmandu before departure.
- Satori Adventures T-shirt and scarf.
Cost Excludes:
- Lunch and dinner during your stay in Kathmandu (except farewell dinner).
- Any packed food/snacks, aerated drinks, energy drinks, mineral water, alcohol, cigarettes, chocolates, nutria-bars.
- Items of personal nature, laundry expenses, tips.
- Expenses incurred from usage of landlines, mobile devices, walkies-talkies, satellite phones and Internet.
- Clothing, packing items or bags, personal medical kit, personal trekking gear.
- Any extra services, products, offers or activities which are not mentioned in the itinerary.
- Any extra expenses arising out of various/unforeseen situations like natural disasters, landslides, political disturbances, strikes, changes in government regulations.
- Any additional staff other than the specified.
- Rescue, repatriation, medicines, medical tests and hospitalization expenses.
- Medical insurance and emergency rescue evacuation if required.
- Travel insurance and helicopter rescue.
- Airfare of international flights.
- Nepal entry visa fee (Visa insurance is easy upon arrival).
- Ice fall garbage deposit fees (Sharing with other member) if applicable.
- Walkies talkies &filming permit.
- Ice falls charges.
- All tents for camp 1, 2, 3
- Personal climbing gear.
- Personal climbing Sherpa Guide(s).
- Emergency oxygen and mask regulator.
- Satori services will not be involved in any capacity above advanced base camp. This means we do not allow any staff or equipment from Satori Adventure above ABC.
- High altitude food for Sherpa and clients.
- Nepal custom duty for import of expedition equipment.
- Tips, gifts, souvenirs.
- Any other item not included in “THE PACKAGE COST INCLUDES” section.
Approaches to ABC:
The trekking to the Manaslu base camp
is absolutely breathtaking and takes you back in time when all Himalayan
mountains were approached on foot. The trek starts at a low elevation of 800m
in Arughta and rises gradually over the next 9-10 trekking days. It is a
perfect way to acclimatize before base camp is reached and to take on climbing
relatively quickly. From the village of Arughat situated in the low country the
trek climbs through narrow gorges, rhododendron forest and local pastures to
emerge into the higher alpine country with Tibetan influences.
The Advanced Base Camp 4700m is located
at the lateral moraine of the Manaslu Glacier and it can be reached within a
9-10 day trek. Along the trekking you will have a great experience of nepalese
culture and pristine native flora and fauna. During the trekking to Sama Gaun
we provide camping accommodation, we can also adjust depending on group size
and departure dates and provide tea house accommodations. The accommodation and
meals are basic and limited compared to Everest or Annapurna trekking. The
Manaslu approach is much more wild and primitive.
Climbing Routes:
Manaslu has many interesting routes
leading to the main summit and many of them were climbed and explored. The
standard commercial route is along the original route of the 1956 Japanese
expedition up the Northeast face.
The climb is straightforward and only
slightly more technical then Cho Oyu or Shishapangma, however with a low base
camp it is a long climb and with relatively high objective avalanche risk.
Traditionally there are 3 camps above
base camp: C1 (5,500m), C2 (6,300m) and C3 (7,300m). Some expeditions establish
an intermediate camp between C2 and C3 at 6,700m. The terrain encountered on
the ascents varies from glacier crossings to steep snow steps and requires a
good understanding of basic alpine climbing techniques. Manaslu has been
climbed Alpine style but traditionally all commercial operators practice
expedition style to improve the chances of summit success for the clients.
How do Sherpa guides work at high altitude?
When you arrive at base camp, our staff
will set up the camp and you will have time to rest and prepare for a proper
acclimatization period. Upon completing a Pooja ceremony at base camp,
the climbing Sherpa guide will open the route and set up camp 1. Once the
camp is set up, clients will be taken to camp 1 to acclimate. Depending
on your physical fitness and bodies’ reaction to altitude, you may stay at camp
1 for another night, or move up to camp 2 and then descend back to base camp.
Next our high altitude Sherpa guide
will open the route and fix lines to camp two, ferry gear, equipment and food
to camp 2. We will then provide a similar acclimatization to camp 2 that
we did on camp 1. If required and the weather conditions allow,
they will allow you to sleep one more night at camp 2 and then return back to
base camp via camp one. During your rest and time at base camp our Sherpa
guide will open the route, fix the camp, supply food, oxygen, and equipment and
prepare for the summit push.
After your camp one and two
acclimatization, our climbing Sherpa guide will check the weather forecast,
group fitness and recovery conditions. If upcoming weather reports, your
physical fitness and Sherpa guide conditions are good, we will begin the summit
push. On the summit push, you will move to camp 1, camp 2 and then camp 3
before moving to the summit. At camp 3 you will awake at 01:00zulu and
begin the summit push.
If for any reason (bad weather, group
physical fitness, accident, incident) we have to return to base camp before the
summit push, but still we have a climbing duration, weather condition and
climbers are interested for re-try we will provide one more opportunity.
However, more than 98% of people either have a successful summit bid or give up
the first try.
How to Choosing a experience Provider
It is important for
each climber to choose the right expedition guide service that not only
suites their needs, but provides the best safely and secure
mountaineering experience possible. There are more than 1,700 trekking
companies in Nepal who offer 8,000 meter expeditions including Everest,
but only about 30 companies who operate 8,000 meter peaks on a regular
basis. We are proud to be one of these 30 companies and consistently
offer, run and succeed at these types of expeditions year after year.
It is very important that the climbers who choose Satori Adventures for
this trip of a lifetime experience have expectations that are
compatible with the program we offer and the style of expedition Satori
Adventures runs. We do not want to simply “fill our expedition”, but
instead we want to comprise a team of companionable people who are
focused on reaching the summit with the highest level of support and
safety standards that can be provided by a guiding service on Mt
Everest. We team this with the best standards of food and quality
equipment to further assist each client reach their full potential. We
feel that we offer the best environment and opportunity for you to be
successful on the world’s highest mountain.
Diminutive climbing Team members
We are always developing and growing our operational systems to ensure
you participate will provide as much as facilities provided. We figure
our expedition members do not deserve anything less during the trekking
and climbing! In the interests of giving you the most optimal chance
to summit, we limit our team size to ensure the group summits on the
best weather day; sometimes there are less window days for summit in
Everest. In big size of group offering cheap climbs often miss out as
they split their groups over several potential summit days. We feel
like our climbing members are feeling that they are climbing as a
family and friends team even on international people. We accept maximum
08 people in a group and if we have more than that we always split in
two groups. So that our base camp staff cooks, climbing Sherpa guide
will fully taking care about you and provide service as per your
desire.
Maximum summit Success;
The Satori Adventures methodology and tactical approach to climbing Mt Everest has seen us
achieve the highest success rates and our extensive experience gives us
the edge when it comes to making the right decisions. We provide a
consistently higher Sherpa and Guide ratio than any other operator,
resulting in more support and backup for your summit attempt and
therefore a greater safety margin and chance of success. There is
always a 1:1 ratio of the climbing Sherpa/guide and client. We always
use professional and experienced climbing Sherpa or guides who have all
reached the summit of Everest.
Highly Qualified Sirdar/Team leader
Our
guides are professionals who are trained and assessed either via the
International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA)
resulting in a greater repertoire of skills that enables them to
provide a dedicated level of security to you during the expedition, or
many years of mountaineering experience on the world’s biggest peaks.
Our guides are experience in both advanced and basic rescue courses and
all have a minimum of 3 years guiding on Everest.
Advanced Communication method
Satori
Adventures Everest expeditions have been at the forefront of providing
top communications for our Everest expeditions.This allows us to
obtain and deliver comprehensive weather forecasts via U.S., European
and Kathmandu weather forecasting. Our lead guide is always equipped
with a satellite phone during the climbing and at base camp. Two way
radio communications between climbing members, guides, Sherpa and base
camp staff is also provided. There is also local mobile network
available at base camp that provides easy connection with your family
during your stay at base camp.
Weather Forecasts:
To ensure the safeties of our climbers,
we always try to use professional weather forecast services. We receive
constant updates during our summit push, camp one, two and three acclimatization
periods. Exact and updated weather reports are a major factor for a successful
summit opportunity. Mountaineering expeditions are a serious undertaking and
climbers need to be aware that there are certain risks that are out of the
control of Satori Adventures. We prefer to describe our Manaslu expedition as
professionally managed rather than guided.
Our expedition leaders always have a
satellite phone for communication. We always pass the upcoming weather forecast
by phone call and text. However now a days there is a local CDMA phone
connection at Manaslu Base camp and around Sama Gaun village.
Health:
We provide a portable altitude chambers
(Gamow Box), medical oxygen, and high altitude related medical equipment at
base camp and the high camps. We also supply a stretcher above base camp in
case of serious injury and the higher camps will also have medical kits. We
also ask all climbers to carry individual micro high altitude medical kits
above base camp. All climbing members and climbing Sherpa guide are
required to wear a personal avalanche beacon above base camp. Finally, we
always request all of our climbers to make sure that they have medical and
travel insurance which will cover a helicopter evacuation in case of serious
sickness or injury on the mountain.