Base Camp is not a viewpoint of Everest — the summit is hidden behind the west shoulder from here. What you get instead is the Khumbu Icefall directly above you, a chaos of collapsing seracs that is the first and most dangerous section of the summit route.
In April and May the moraine holds several hundred tents and the infrastructure of a dozen expeditions. Outside the climbing season there is nothing but rock, prayer flags and the noise of the glacier moving.
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