Kathmandu in Nepal

22 hours from São Paulo to Kathmandu. Four hours to Everest. Worth every hour. Worth every dollar. I have no more eloquent way to put it than that. Flying above Everest Base Camp changed something in me permanently. The scale of those mountains, the silence inside the helicopter as we flew over the Khumbu Glacier, the breakfast with Everest in the window. I came home a different person. Inticketo made it perfectly simple to access something completely extraordinary.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I have done luxury travel on every continent. Private islands, Arctic expeditions, Michelin-starred dinners in unexpected places. The Hotel Everest View breakfast with Everest in the window, arrived at by helicopter after flying above Base Camp, is the single most extraordinary luxury experience I have had. The price is exceptional value for what is delivered. This is five-star experience in the most dramatic setting on the planet.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I have lupus and cannot do strenuous physical activity. When I found out about the helicopter tour I booked it immediately. The four hours were extraordinary — from the moment we left Kathmandu to the moment we returned, every minute had something worth seeing. The pilot narrated beautifully. Kala Patthar from above and the Hotel Everest View breakfast were the two highlights. Inticketo was thoughtful about my condition and made sure I was completely comfortable.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I want to say to every person from West Africa reading this — Nepal is not far, and this helicopter tour is not only for wealthy Western travelers. I saved for this trip for 14 months. Standing on the helipad at dawn in Kathmandu I thought about those 14 months and smiled. Four hours later, having seen Everest Base Camp from the air and had breakfast at the world's highest hotel, I thought about those 14 months again. Worth every month. Worth every savings deposit.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I'm a landscape photographer and I've shot in Patagonia, Iceland, and the Dolomites. The aerial view of the Khumbu from a helicopter is a completely different photographic experience to any of those. The scale is impossible to capture fully but the attempt is extraordinary. Flying directly above the Khumbu Glacier with Everest filling the frame above — nothing in my portfolio comes close to those shots.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I came to Nepal for a wedding and had just one free day. My friend told me to book the helicopter tour and I almost didn't because of the price. I am so glad I did. The moment we flew over the Khumbu Icefall and I saw Everest Base Camp below us I genuinely couldn't speak. The breakfast at Hotel Everest View with Everest in front of me was the best meal of my life.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

My mother is 69 and her lifelong dream was to see Everest. She cannot walk more than a kilometer without pain. We booked the private helicopter tour and she sat in the front seat next to the pilot. Her face when Everest appeared above Base Camp — I have never seen her look like that. She said it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. Worth every single dollar.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I have a fear of heights. My therapist actually suggested the helicopter tour as a challenge. I went. I was nervous boarding and for the first five minutes. Then I saw the Himalayas and forgot entirely that I was hundreds of meters in the air in a helicopter. Everest does that — it simply occupies all available cognitive and emotional bandwidth. I came back from Nepal cured of a fear I'd had for 15 years.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

Private tour for my wife and I for our anniversary. The Inticketo team arranged everything — photographer at Hotel Everest View, a small anniversary cake, champagne waiting on the terrace. When we flew above Base Camp with Everest above us, I understood for the first time why people dedicate their lives to these mountains. The most romantic, extraordinary, overwhelming experience of our 15 years together.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

My daughter is 8 years old and has been obsessed with mountains since she learned to read. I told her we were going to see Everest and she didn't sleep the night before. When the mountain appeared in the helicopter window she pressed her face to the glass and said "it's real." Eight years old, above the Khumbu Icefall, face pressed to the glass. That is the moment I will remember for the rest of my life.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

Four hours. That's all it takes. Kathmandu to Everest Base Camp flyover to Kala Patthar to breakfast at Hotel Everest View and back. I kept waiting for the experience to feel rushed or touristy and it never did — every minute of the flight was extraordinary. The pilot found the perfect angle for photographs at each point. The window seat guarantee is real — I had unobstructed views the entire way.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I did the EBC trek three years ago and came back to Nepal to see it from the air. Completely different experience and completely worth repeating the trip to Nepal for. Seeing the route I walked — the Hillary Bridge, Namche Bazaar, Tengboche, Dingboche — all visible below in 45 minutes of flight. And then flying above Base Camp itself from the air. Extraordinary perspective.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

Precision and professionalism from start to finish. Pickup at exactly 5:30am, airport formalities handled efficiently, takeoff on schedule, and every segment of the flight timed perfectly. The pilot pointed out every significant peak as we flew — I knew the names but seeing them in scale from the air with a professional narrating was a completely different experience. Back at my hotel by noon with the best photographs of my life.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

Three generations in one helicopter — me, my father who is 62, and my son who is 11. My son's eyes when we flew over the Khumbu Icefall. My father's silence when Everest appeared. My own feeling of completeness watching both of them experience something extraordinary together. Inticketo arranged the private tour perfectly. Every detail was thoughtful and professional. This is what family travel should be.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I did the EBC trek in 2019 and just completed the helicopter tour. Both are incredible but for completely different reasons. The trek gives you the cultural depth, the physical achievement, the tea houses and the Sherpa friendships. The helicopter gives you the aerial scale — Everest from above, the glacier from altitude, the entire Khumbu Valley in one panoramic sweep. If you've done the trek, the helicopter shows you where you walked from the sky. Profound.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

From the bottom of the world to the top in 24 hours of flying. Buenos Aires to Kathmandu, sleep, 6am helicopter. By 10am I was having breakfast with Everest in my window. The efficiency of the experience is part of what makes it so surreal — you don't have time to process where you are, you just arrive above Base Camp and there it is. The greatest mountain on Earth, right there. Nothing prepares you for the scale.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

As someone who has hiked in the Dolomites my whole life, I thought I understood mountains. The Himalayas redefined the word for me. The scale is genuinely incomprehensible until you're in the helicopter above the Khumbu Valley and the peaks simply keep going up, and up, and up beyond where any mountain you've seen before would have stopped. Flying over Base Camp was the most humbling aerial experience I can imagine. Inticketo made every detail of the booking effortless.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

Five of us booked this together — a mix of fitness levels, ages and a grandfather in our group who is 74. The helicopter accommodated everyone perfectly. Our grandfather sat with the best window view and when we flew over Base Camp he was completely silent for the entire approach. At Hotel Everest View he said it was the greatest experience of his life. We all agreed. This tour transcends age completely.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

I came to Nepal alone after a very difficult year — a divorce, a job loss, a health scare. I needed something that would remind me the world is enormous and beautiful. Flying above Everest Base Camp in a helicopter at 6,500 meters before breakfast did exactly that. The world is enormous. It is beautiful. My problems are real but the mountains put them in their proper proportion. I came home from that flight ready to rebuild. Thank you Inticketo for the best four hours of a very hard year.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View

Did this on a whim with one day left in Kathmandu before my flight home. Best spontaneous decision I've ever made. We were airborne by 6:30am and by 9am I was eating eggs on the Hotel Everest View terrace with Everest right in front of me. Back in my hotel by noon. Absolutely unreal experience.

Everest Base Camp Helicopter Day Tour with Breakfast at Hotel Everest View