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Mountain Medicine Nepal
Medicine in the Everest Valley

Mountain Medicine | Nepal | April 2019

£2,995.00

The ultimate Mountain Medicine Nepal course, the path of which follows the Everest Base Camp Trail up the Khumbu valley to base camp itself, situated in the shadow of the world’s most iconic peak.

Led by a world class faulty of expedition medics and a strong local Nepali support team.

Start: 21 April 2019, 18:00
End: 8 May 2019, 09:30

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  • Spaces Left: High
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During the 17-day Mountain Medicine Nepal course you will follow the Everest Base Camp Trail from Lukla, 14 days will be trekking at an easy pace, staying in Nepalese teahouses along the route and enjoying the spectacular scenery along the route.

The price includes: accommodation, meals (unless otherwise stated), expedition medicine course manual, all course activities, support services on Everest Base Camp trail and return flights from Kathmandu to Lukla. For a kit list see below. The only additional costs are for your international flights, drinks and items of a personal nature.

Travel insurance is compulsory, must include the facility for helicopter evacuation in case of emergency and must cover high altitude trekking – a suitable policy can be obtained through Campbell Irivine Ltd.

What’s included?
All tutoring, accommodation and meals during the course
Safety equipment

What’s not included?
Travel costs
Travel and health insurance
Personal equipment
Additional drinks and food purchased from teahouses and shops

Do you need travel and health insurance?
We recommend all participant travelling outside of their home country, or where aero-medical evacuation may be required, have specific travel insurance in place for the expedition.

For your safety and security, we reserve the right to refuse access to an expedition until we have details of adequate insurance cover provided to us.

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The group will meet in the Thamel district, Kathmandu at 1800 on Sunday 21 April.

The course will end after a group breakfast on the 8 May.

Due to flight delays and baggage issue we recommend that you allow at least a day either side of the course dates  when booking your international flights.

When making travel plans we find www.rome2rio.com a super helpful site.

Course Content

    • Role & responsibilities of expedition doctor
    • Personal trekking and medical kit
    • Pre-expedition planning and Casevac
    • AMS
    • Introduction to HACE & HAPE
    • Staying well in KTM & Beyond H2O, UV, personal hygiene
    • Wilderness Wound Management
    • Frostbite
    • Wilderness H2O treatment
    • Wilderness gastrointestinal disorders
    • HACE (detailed)
    • HAPE (detailed)
    • Opthamology
    • Wilderness Fracture Management
    • Improvised splints practical
    • Everest ER
    • HRA Lecture & Gamow Bag practical (HRA doctors)
    • Medical Kit theory
    • Medical Kit practical
    • Hypothermia
    • Women’s Wilderness Health
    • Psychology & Team Dynamics
    • Debrief and review of medical cases encountered

Itinerary by day

Exact itinerary subject to change and course content might vary in content and order.

Day 1 : Meet in Kathmandu
Day 2: Kathmandu
Day 3: Fly in to Lukla
Day 4: Trek from Phakding - Namche Bazaar
Day 5: Acclimatisation Day in Namche Bazaar
Day 6: Namche Bazaar to Tengboche
Day 7: Tengboche to Pheriche
Day 8 & 9: Acclimatisation & Rest Days In Periche
Day 10: Pheriche - Lobuche
Day 11: Lobuche - Gorak Shep
Day 12: Additional Kala Patthar or EBC trek options
Day 13: Dingboche to Lobuche
Day 14: Dingboche – Namche Bazaar
Day 15: Namche Bazaar - Benkar
Day 16. Benkar – Lukla
Day 17. Morning flight back to Kathmandu
Day 18: Morning breakfast
Day 1 : Meet in Kathmandu

Meet in Kathmandu

Day 2: Kathmandu

Morning lectures

Day 3: Fly in to Lukla

Depart for airport and fly in to Lukla
Trek to Phakding through the Dudh Kosi Valley along an easy valley bottom trail

Day 4: Trek from Phakding - Namche Bazaar

We continue along the trail, heading upstream along the banks of the Dudh Kosi until we come to the confluence of the Bhote Kosi and Dudh Kosi.
We cross a large suspension bridge and begin a long uphill section through pine tree forests. Our efforts are rewarded along the way as the peaks of Everest (8,848m), Lhotse (8,511m), Nuptse (7,879m), Arna Dablam (6,856m) and Taweche (6,542m) come into view for the first time.

Eventually we reach the distinctive horse-shoe shaped bowl village of Namche Bazaar where we stop for our overnight stay. There is also the opportunity to visit the Sherpa Museum in Namche which details their home life and mountaineering achievements.

Day 5: Acclimatisation Day in Namche Bazaar

Training walk up to 4000 metres

Day 6: Namche Bazaar to Tengboche

A relatively easy trail on a generally flat trail with stunning mountain views

Day 7: Tengboche to Pheriche

We start leaving the trees behind as we gain altitude and the glaciated mountain landscape becomes more a feature of our walking and head towards the mountain settlement of Pheriche, the last inhabited village before Mount Everest for a couple of night acclimatisation.

Day 8 & 9: Acclimatisation & Rest Days In Periche

Acclimatisation, rest and training walks

Visit to Himalayan Rescue Association Clinic, the HRA Aid Post is located at 14600ft/ 4600 metres and located at a important trekking junction where a high proportion of trekkers to the region really start to feel the effects of Altitude Mountain Sickness (AMS). The clinic provides medical support for over 5000 trekkers and sherpas annually and is staffed by volunteers medics from all over the world – and a high proportion of Expedition Medicine delegates!

Day 10: Pheriche - Lobuche

Having, hopefully, been well rested and acclimatised by our stay in Pheriche we restart our trek by ascending to the remote accommodation stop of Lobuche, passing on our way a flat plateau home to the climbers memorial area a poignant reminder of lives lost in search of human endeavour.

Day 11: Lobuche - Gorak Shep

Kala Patthar or Everest Base Camp trek options

Day 12: Additional Kala Patthar or EBC trek options

For those that wish to, a day trek to Everest Base Camp, passing through Gorak Shep with superb views of the Khumbu Ice Fall flowing off the flanks for Mount Everest. Then the return trek to Dingboche.

Day 13: Dingboche to Lobuche

A relaxed descent to Lobuche with additional time in Gorak Shep

Day 14: Dingboche – Namche Bazaar

We start to retrace our steps back over now familiar terrain of the Khumbu Valley.

Day 15: Namche Bazaar - Benkar
Day 16. Benkar – Lukla
Day 17. Morning flight back to Kathmandu

Course dinner in town, summing up and farewells

Day 18: Morning breakfast

Morning breakfast – course end

 

Martin Rhodes

“Doc Martin” recently returned from a trek in Peru where none of the clients could be convinced that he was really a doctor. Others are uncertain whether this is a compliment or not, but he continues to take it as one!

On the basis that to have a career means to rush along in a uncontrolled fashion, his career has included studying law at a minor English university, working as joiner, a language teacher, and for the Foreign Office in Latin America, and (honestly!) training in Paediatrics, A&E and General Practice in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire.

He is happiest running up and skiing down mountains, and sitting in tents in the Antarctic being brought cups of tea by Ben Cooper, with whom he is joined at the hip, having worked together in the UK as doctor and Deputy Team Leader of Edale Mountain Rescue Team, and on numerous Polar and Alpine expeditions . He hasn’t had a real job for years, but is Chief Medical Officer for Poles Apart and Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions, and runs an outdoor activities and gîte business in the French Pyrenees.

 

 

KIT LIST

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