Annapurna Base Camp Trek – 10 Days: The Complete Guide to Itinerary, Cost, and Planning
Trip Overview Of Annapurna Base Camp Trek 10 Days
Standing at 4,130 meters beneath the colossal south face of Annapurna I (8,091m), surrounded by a ring of Himalayan giants that block the sky in every direction, you begin to understand why trekkers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and dozens of other countries call this the most dramatic amphitheater on Earth. The Annapurna Base Camp trek condenses that experience into ten purposeful days—enough time to acclimatize safely, absorb the Gurung village culture along the Modi River, and arrive at camp physically strong rather than merely surviving.
This guide is not a marketing brochure. It is the complete planning resource for the 10-day ABC trek—altitude profiles, cost breakdowns, permit requirements, packing guidance, seasonal conditions, and a day-by-day itinerary refined across more than twenty years of guiding in the Annapurna region. At View Nepal Treks & Expedition, we have walked this route thousands of times. What follows is everything we know, delivered so you can plan with confidence.
About View Nepal Treks & Expedition: 20+ Years in the Himalayas
View Nepal Treks & Expedition was established in Kathmandu with a simple premise: trekkers deserve operators who know the trails from boots-on-ground experience, not from brochures. Over more than twenty years, we have built relationships with teahouse owners in Chhomrong, trained a roster of NATA-licensed guides fluent in English, German, and French, and developed emergency evacuation protocols tested in real conditions above 4,000 meters.
Our team includes former mountaineering instructors, certified wilderness first responders, and logistics professionals who have managed group departures for corporate retreats from Singapore and Switzerland, solo women travelers from Scandinavia, and multi-generational families from Canada and Australia. That depth of field experience shapes every element of our 10-day Annapurna Base Camp package—from the acclimatization schedule to the specific lodges we book along the route.
We are registered with the Nepal Tourism Board, licensed under the Department of Tourism, and maintain active memberships with the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) and the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA). These are not decorative affiliations. They govern our guide certifications, insurance obligations, and operational safety standards.
Deep Destination Guide: The Annapurna Sanctuary and Its Landscape
The Annapurna Sanctuary—also called the Annapurna Basin—is a high-altitude glacial amphitheater enclosed by a ring of peaks exceeding 7,000 meters. The only natural entry point threads through a narrow gorge between Machapuchare (Fishtail, 6,993m) and Hiunchuli (6,441m), following the upper reaches of the Modi River. It is this geography that gives the sanctuary its particular intensity: once inside, the scale of the surrounding walls overwhelms anything you have seen in photographs.
Annapurna I, at 8,091 meters, is the tenth-highest mountain on Earth and the first eight-thousander ever summited, in 1950 by Maurice Herzog's French expedition. The south face visible from base camp is one of the most feared walls in mountaineering—a 3,000-meter vertical rise of ice, rock, and avalanche-prone hanging glaciers. You do not need to be a climber to appreciate it. Standing at the base camp elevation of 4,130 meters, watching morning light ignite that face from amber to white, is more than sufficient.
