Ama Dablam Climb - The Bucket List Company

Rising up 6,812m from the heart of Everest’s Khumbu region of Nepal, Ama Dablam’s daunting peak is one of the most exhilarating and aesthetic climbs out there. It’s also basically Asia’s answer to the Great Pyramid of Giza, only with less sand and a hell of a lot more snow.

Shaped just like that ancient Egyptian monolith, the Himalayas’ natural version offers a much more action for experienced mountaineers and the ideal stepping-stone to more technical climbing. You’ll find yourself granite scrambling, ice climbing and fixed rope trekking on your way to the summit, thanks to the varied terrains up here in the Himalayas.

So if you’re looking for a real challenge? Summitting the hardest trekking peak in the world at the top of Ama Dablam is as good as it gets.

If you’re like most mountain lovers, you’ve probably already found yourself drooling over pictures of Ama Dablam and you’d be able to point her out in a line-up, no questions asked. The iconic pyramid-style peak is one of the most stunning in the whole of the Himalayas, sitting at 6,812m above sea level with the lower western peak at 6,170m. On this unforgettable climb, you’ll start on the same path as the classic Everest Base Camp trek, weaving through the Khumbu region of Nepal above the monastery village of Tengboche and having a heck of a lot of fun as you go.

Ama Dablam is considered by most the hardest trekking summit on earth, which means you’ll need plenty of climbing experience behind you before you can hope to tackle this peak safely. While the fixed ropes at the summit makes it a “more accessible” mountain, we really wouldn’t be comfortable taking any adventurers up there unless they had a decent understanding of mountaineering techniques and a few challenging peaks under their belt. But don’t let that put you off. If you’re not quite ready to tackle Ama Dablam yet, click here to take a look at some of our other climbs.

And if you think you’re up to the challenge? Keep reading. Because this expedition will test your limits and force you to prove just how strong your mountain stamina really is. It’ll push the boundaries of your fitness and your body’s ability to acclimatise to rapidly increasing altitudes too. But those views from the pyramid peak? And the sense of achievement? They’re second to none.

If you want to feel exhilarated and exposed to the elements in the most sublime of the Himalayan ranges, it’s high time you joined us on Ama Dablam.

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Ama Dablam’s not for any Tom, Dick or Harriet

A must-do for any committed alpinist, Ama Dablam certainly isn’t for the fainthearted. Sure, our Bucket List Co treks up there have seen a great success rate; but that’s partly because we’ll ask you to think twice (thrice, four times even) if you’re not an adequately experienced climber. The challenges are technical and tough, but thanks to the fixed ropes towards the top, a successfully summit is achievable. You’ll want certain skills to be second nature before you head up there though, since the lack of oxygen can make you do some funny things. Hydration and more than a little acquaintance with your gear is the name of the game up here. So you should be good at scrambling, abseiling and rock climbing, knowing how to adjust a harness and understanding the limitations of small ledges.

You’ll want to be ready for all sorts of weather too, and confident that you can keep going no matter what the wind is doing. Get the crampons ready! It might sound like you need a lot of experience to attempt the Ama Dablam climb and that’s because, well, you do. But if you’ve got it in you to make it to the top, the feels you’ll get up there will be more than worth the journey. So if you want to put a rather momentous notch in your mountaineering belt, practise your best climbing expertise and learn new skills along the way… If you want to get at one with nature and experience the stunning silences that only exist way up high in the Himalayas… And if you want to do it with a professional trekking company with a great success rate (and a huge flare for fun and adventure)… Then you need to get yourself to Ama Dablam. Check out the itinerary, chuck any questions you have in our direction, book your spot and get ready to tick an incredible experience off your Bucket List.

If you don’t do it now, will you ever?