semi self sufficient | IAN CORLESS

If you’ve ever dreamed of running in a place that feels otherworldly, where every breath reminds you you’re alive, and every step tests your limits, the 2025 Everest Trail Race is your chance. Happening this November, 10th to 22nd, 2025.

This is not just a race, it’s a life changing experience stamped into your muscles, your memory, and your soul.

The Everest Trail Race is a semi self-sufficient, multi-stage ultra that pushes you across roughly 160 km (100 miles) of raw Himalayan terrain.

You carry your own gear. You fuel yourself. You keep going. Over six days, you’ll face steep ascents, grinding descents, suspension bridges, narrow trails, and thin air all at altitudes between 2,000 and 4,100 meters.

This is not a race for comfort. It’s a race for people who crave discomfort, who see sweat and struggle as part of something bigger.

This is trail running in its purest form. Technical sections, single tracks carved into mountainsides, ancient stone paths connecting remote villages. One moment you’re running through a pine forest; the next, you’re skirting a cliff with views that stop you in your tracks.

The race route threads through the Solukhumbu region, home to the legendary Sherpa people, along the same trails used by mountaineers heading to Everest Base Camp.

November in the Himalayas is cool, crisp, and clear, perfect for trail running. Daytime temps are mild, with intense sunshine at altitude.

But the nights get cold. You’ll wake up to frosty mornings, and every breath will be visible. It’s the dry season, so the skies are often brilliantly blue, framing the snowcapped peaks like a postcard that never ends.

This is the kind of race where you learn to respect the air. The oxygen gets thinner, and your body feels it. It’s a slow grind uphill, and then a fast, careful descent. Pacing becomes survival. Acclimatisation is your secret weapon. But when you’re out there, breathing hard, moving slow, you realise something: you don’t need speed. You just need grit and determination.

You’ll meet Sherpa families offering you tea from tin cups in smoky kitchens. Kids will run beside you, barefoot and beaming.

The camaraderie among runners is real, forged in pain, sweat, and shared awe. You’ll finish each stage beside people who were strangers, now teammates.

The Everest Trail Race is small and personal. It’s not about crowds. It’s about connection — to the land, to each other, and to something deeper inside yourself.

You’ll see Everest, Lhotse, Ama Dablam, and other giants of the Khumbu up close. But it’s not just the mountains — it’s the prayer flags flapping in the wind, the monasteries perched on hillsides, the layers of ridge upon ridge fading into the horizon. Every day looks like a screensaver. Every sunrise feels earned.

If you’re waiting for the “perfect moment,” this is it. You don’t need to be the fastest or the strongest. You just need to show up ready to push, adapt, and feel everything this place throws at you. The Everest Trail Race is not about conquering the mountain. It’s about discovering who you are when the mountain pushes back.

Transcontinental flights Barcelona/ Kathmandu / Barcelona and transfer to the Hotel.
Domestic Flights. Manthali/Lukla/Manthali and transfer to the hotel.
4 nights hotel in Kathmandu 4 * (according to local tourist category) with breakfast, double occupancy.
Overnight in lodge (hostel) during the trek in full board. Not beverages included.
Dinner the second night in a hotel in Kathmandu. Not beverages included.
Dinner and awards party. Not beverages included.
Allowances and staff insurance.
Trekking permit.
Entry into the National Park

SIGN UP FOR ETR 2025 HERE

Official Everest Trail Race website here