Mt. Ama Dablam Expedition
Ama Dablam is regarded as one of the world's most beautiful and sought-after peaks, along side the Matterhorn and Khan Tenors. The experienced mountaineer will found the South East Ridge. Which is easiest, a good challenge.
Ama Dablam is a serious climb requiring extensive use of ropes and equipment. If your climbing experience is limited or your skills are in need of a tune-up, we prefer you to join us beforehand for our Himalayan Three Peaks trip. This would pre-acclimatize you and ensure a thorough brush-up on skills for your ascent.
The ascent to Camp one at 5800m is quite straight forward from which point it gradually steepness’ as we move onto the rocky South-West ridge. The final approach to the summits is on snow slopes up to 45 degrees. We have had good summit success on all our previous expeditions.
Itinerary: It is 26 Days Expedition including Lobuche peak.
Day 1 Arrive in Kathmandu 
Day 2 Prepare for trip
Day 3 Fly to Lukla, Start Trek phakding
Day 4 Trek to Namche Bazar
Day 5 Rest day
Day 6 Trek to Pangboche
Day 7 Trek to Dingboche
Day 8 rest Day with the day walk
Day 9 Trek to Lobuche
day 10 Trek to Kalapattar & back to Lobuche
Day 11 Rest day or Prepare for Lobuche peak
Day 12 Lobuche high camp
Day 13 Climb Lobuche & back to Thukla
Day 14 Thukla to Pangboche
Day 15 Rest Day & prepare for Ama Dablam Expedition
Day 16-23 Summit (A.D. Ex.) back to Pangboche
Day 24 Back to Namche Bazar
Day 25 Back to Lukla
Day 26 Fly to Kathmandu
We are likely to summit prior to day 65 but have quite a bit of time to wait out for suitable conditions.
Cleaning the mountain and packing
It takes several days to clear all the camps, and bring all our rubbish down and pack everything ready for the Yak.
Trek out to BC about 1stth of June
drive back to Zangmu,2nd June
Back to Katmandu , 3rd June
Shopping and rest day in KTM 4th June
Depart to your Home 5th of June
We are likely to summit prior and finishing day 65 but have quite a bit of time to wait out for suitable conditions.
Attitude
Mentally, you should not be on this expedition unless you think you can climb to the summit, there is a lot of power is positive thinking. At the same time you must be prepared for disappointment; conditions may not be perfect, you may struggle at extreme altitude etc.
This is a professionally lead expedition. Your guide and crew are there to manage the logistics of the expedition not to haul you up the mountain or be personal servants. Your guide is there because he is familiar with the mountain and big expeditions, to assist in being a climbing partner, to make difficult judgment decisions and to generally manage the expedition. Your guide will accompany the team on the majority of the acclimatization trips and will endeavor to summit with you, but this is not a guarantee. The Sherpas will summit with the expedition members.
We live together for more than a month so please have consideration for your fellow team members, crew and guide, and other mountaineers. Being polite and reasonable goes a long way; even minor dehydration makes almost anyone surprisingly irritable and intractable).
Experience and fitness
Despite the relatively non-technical nature you MUST have some mountaineering experience and MUST have been to 6000m before. The fitter you are when you arrive the better. You must be at least moderately fit, your fitness will build remarkably on the 
mountain. Don't underestimate the difficulty and strength of will required to climb at over 7000m.
Insurance
This is your choice. It is sometimes possible to get insurance for 8000m peaks thru your national alpine club - the British Mountaineering council (BMC) has a great policy, although getting more expensive all the time. We don't normally have a doctor with us however in the past we have arranged the services of a doctor at base camp. You pay the doctor directly. There is helicopter rescue possible in Nepal. The cost of emergency evacuation and associated care is not included in the cost of the expedition. There is one particularly good clinic in Kathmandu. Our Nepali staff is insured.
