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The Everest Base Camp Trek is a real business, so you can imagine what athletes do to take the pace? In November, Everest Marathon 13 lead and the trail out of Namche Bazaar, Everest Base Camp are hitting shoes along it, instead of the usual hiking boots.
Everest Base Camp Trek takes you through an unforgettable environment with a challenge of trekking and scenery to get your heart pumping. But each year, a select group of runners of resistance that chose to take this journey to the next level, adding to the experience the adrenaline of a race and effort of running at altitude.
Marathon Everest is no ordinary marathon. At altitudes ranging from three hundred to five hundred feet above sea level, is the highest in the world. This is unlike other events in implementation. First, the ground is different to the runway and paving more conventional marathons. The route continues through fields, along of rugged, hilly dirt roads. Second, the race is tilted, as can be expected from a career that began a few hours walk from the Everest base camp. Gorak Shep Plateau is the starting point, at an altitude of 5184 meters. The route goes down largely along the route to Everest Base Camp Trek Namche Bazaar, Sherpa mountain village at 3446 meters. This means, at least, that the race is largely down, but with steep slopes and uneven ground, the race is more in the field of fallen corridor of a marathon runner.
Training for long distance event is hard work, but the altitude plays an important role in this endurance event. Even people walking the trails in the Khumbu occasional difficulties, so that run in this environment may be even more demanding. For this reason, competitors outside Nepal are invited to join an Everest Base Camp Trek to the days before the race. In the walk, which can benefit from the gradual acclimatization as the trail climbs steadily from Lukla airport to Mount Everest. With built-in rest days and an even faster, the walk is a good way to get your body used to the environment.
Acclimation is so important that before the race, runners are often prepared to trek to the summit of the mountains small near the head of the Everest Base Camp Trek, as the Kala Pattar (5623m) and Gokyo Ri (5483m) a few miles away.
Not surprisingly, to be better used to the altitude, early runners to reach the finish line are usually of Nepal, at times, finishing more than half an hour ahead overseas competitors. In 2007, the winner, Lok Bahadur Rokaya, ran a time of 4 hours and 12 minutes. The last participant to finish took a little less than twelve hours, but this is still impressive, since they covered most of the route of Everest Base Camp Trek, which takes about two weeks to walk.
The race this year will be the thirteenth to be held since its inception in 1987, with about eighty runners in the competition. Fortunately, after running 26 miles, with no returning to the airport in Lukla to Namche Bazaar, instead making use of the runway in high Shyangboche nearby. Not only the Everest Marathon provide an exceptional challenge, but also poses significant amounts of money for charity. To date, more than £ 450,000 has been raised has been used to support projects in health and education in Nepal.
Jude Limburn Turner is the Marketing Manager for Mountain Kingdoms, an adventure tour company who have run the Everest Base Camp Trek for over 20 years. They now offer treks and tours worldwide, including destinations in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Central and South East Asia.
