32 Things You Need to Know Before Doing the Mount Everest Base Camp Trek

When we landed in Lukla to start our trek, we were kind of expecting to see Mount Everest right away. When we didn't, our guide and Sherpas explained that it was actually very far away and that we wouldn't get to see it for a few more days. When we saw it, we realized just how many mountains were in between us and base camp.

In the photo above, we got our first glimpse of Everest on day three of our trek (it's the tiny mountain top in the middle that has a cloud of snow blowing off it from the wind).