Up To Everest Base Camp By Horse Cart Where you are dropped off at Everest is 8km's downhill from where the actual base camp is located. There are two options for getting up to the gravely road to base camp, either walk or take a horse cart. Vehicles are no longer permitted to drive on the road. At this extreme altitude and in the freezing cold we were not about to make the 16km round trip by foot. There were a row of horse cart drivers lined up in turn waiting to take people. The men all had long hair done up in a thick braid with a bright red scarf tied around the top of their head. … [Read more...]