PHURTE - Tea house

  • 3,500 meters

Phurte is the first settlement after Namche or lasts before depending on which way you started this journey. It is a beautiful village which also has a forestry nursery for Everest Conservation Area Program. It is a regular sherpa village with few rest houses and a stupa. “Yes, it has to be the Stupa” There is a well sited white stupa at the end of the village called Laudo, which is a small stupa established by Kopan Monastery of Kathmandu in 1970 AD.

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Going to the mountains
is going home.’
- John Muir
Great things are done when
men and mountains meet.’
- William Blake
There is no such thing as bad weather,
only inappropriate clothing.’
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Going to the mountains
is going home.’
- John Muir
Great things are done when
men and mountains meet.’
- William Blake
There is no such thing as bad weather,
only inappropriate clothing.’
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes