18/11/2025
🏔️ EBC Trail Stories — The Final Descent (Days 9, 10 & 11)
The story of our journey reaches its successful conclusion! 🥳
Today’s post captures the story of our final three days on the trail, from the moment we began our descent,
Swipe through the photos and read the story to experience this part of our ascent!
Photos by: Bajrang R Jangid
Story Content: Himendra Kartantik Simha
The descent -
After 8 days of ascent, we began our descent on 17th Oct. 2025. As is the norm, descent is generally fast-paced. We covered a distance of around 15 km on this day and reached Pheriche, the place of our stay for the night.
From Pheriche the next day, we further descended to Namche Bazaar covering a distance of around 18 km and, on the next day, returned to Lukla covering a distance of 19km
Though descent seems easy, it is fraught with a greater risk of injury than ascent, and it also puts a different type of strain in the knees than climbing. Even though we felt the strain of covering long distances on each day, the joy of having reached EBC successfully helped us keep our energies high. During our descent, we observed silence for one day.
We were very fortunate as we were blessed with good weather throughout the trek.
We felt a sense of fulfillment after reaching Lukla as we had completed the trek successfully. I would like to convey my heartfelt gratitude to our Guru Shri Vinay Siddaiah for having organised this silent trek and giving all of us this opportunity to enjoy such a unique and rare physical, emotional and spiritual experience which each one of us will cherish for a lifetime.
