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where mountaineers eat, sleep, and rehearse not dying before the summit attempt.
means The fortified home base near the foot of a mountain where climbers stage supplies, rest, and acclimatize before pushing toward the summit, with higher camps established as they ascend.
from A transparent compound of "base" and "camp," both worn smooth by centuries of English use. "Base" descends from Latin basis (foundation, pedestal), itself borrowed from Greek basis (a stepping, a foot — from bainein, "to go"), so a base is literally where you set your feet. "Camp" comes through French from Latin campus, "open field," the same word that gives us "campus" and "champion." The pairing emerged with the rise of organized mountaineering and polar expeditions, when serious ascents demanded a permanent staging ground below the summit — a single English word for the camp that anchors all the others above it.
- everest height
- Base Camp sits at 5,364 meters — already deadly thin air
- tiny city
- hosts hundreds of climbers, cooks, and yaks each season
- the software
- a project tool named after the mountain metaphor
- khumbu icefall
- the lethal maze climbers cross right above it
- poop problem
- tons of human waste hauled off Everest yearly
mount everest basecamp — south col route in nepal at 5,364m, staging point for everest climbers
basecamp festival — annual music and arts festival held in the english lake district since 2012