Sunrise over the Annapurna range from Sarangkot

Everest Mountain Flight

An hour eye to eye with the highest peaks on earth.

For travellers who cannot spare two weeks to walk, the mountain flight is the next best thing: a one-hour dawn flight east along the range, turning at Everest, with every seat a window seat and a look into the cockpit for the pilot's view.

It is the quickest way to stand, briefly, level with Everest, and pairs neatly with a Kathmandu Valley day.

Highlights

Everest and the eastern Himalaya from the air
A guaranteed window seat, rotated so everyone sees
A cockpit visit for the pilot's-eye view
Back at your hotel by mid-morning

A typical 1-day shape

Weather is everything: mornings are clearest and the flight only runs when the range is open. We book an early slot and can rebook you to the next clear morning if it is cancelled.

By road + Flightseeing
Dawn transfer and the flight
An early pickup for the best light, the one-hour flight east along the range to Everest and back, then the return to your hotel.
Time
Around 3 hours door to door

Ways to do it

The morning flight
A dawn slot for the clearest air, back at your hotel by mid-morning. The standard, and the most reliable.
With a Kathmandu heritage day
Fly at dawn, then spend the day on the valley's temples and squares. A full, easy first day in Nepal.

Getting there

An early transfer from your Kathmandu hotel to the domestic terminal, the one-hour return flight, and back to your hotel by mid-morning.