Mountain Trekking World

Details of Trekking Equipment's

• Camp shoes/sandals:

  A luxury for your feet at the end of the day. Sandals or running shoes will be better you can buy for cheap in Kathmandu, are a necessity for showers during the Khumbu and Annapurna treks.

• Thermal shirts/underwear:

  Good thermals, both tops and bottoms are the best for cold weather in trekking

• Nightwear thermals:

  Good for making warm nights in the sleeping bag, Silk-weight is lightest and warm,

• leece/sweatpants:

  Good for the cold evening and morning.

• Day-wear T-shirts/Shirts:

  On the lower altitude trekking weather will be hot, T-shirts and shirts are recommended

• Trekking pants:

  Recommended to have 2 pairs

• Wind pants:

  If your trekking pants are reasonably windproof then special wind pants are not needed. If you do bring a pair, it is not necessary to have Gore-tex. Similar, non-waterproof is quite OK.

• Underwear:

  Regular everyday type.

• Neck gaiter:

  For winter trekking they are really the best for staying warm

• Trekking poles:

  Trekking poles are very useful especially for downhill, in popular trekking in Nepal you can buy the wooden trekking poles selling by children, trekking can be done without trekking poles also