Everest Trail

Everest Trail is a role-playing game set on the real trek from Jiri to Everest Base Camp. The mountains are not invented: the terrain is built from real elevation data, and the lodges, glaciers and high passes sit at their true coordinates. You walk it the way trekkers do — lodge to lodge, ridge after ridge, taking whatever work the next village has for you. The real trail, end to endNearly 200 hand-placed locations follow the classic route: Jiri, Shivalaya, Bhandar, Kinja, the Lamjura Pass, Junbesi and Pikey Peak on the long walk in, then Tengpoche, Pheriche, Dingboche and Chhukung, Ama Dablam and Island Peak base camps, Dughla and the Everest memorial chortens, Lobuche, Gorak Shep, Kala Pattar and Everest Base Camp at the foot of the Khumbu Glacier.

Cross the Cho La to Dzongla and Thangnak, work up through Dole and Machherma to the Gokyo lakes and Gokyo Ri, then over the Renjo La to Lungden and Thame. Forty-nine lodges and teahouses are open along the way, and you can fast travel back to anywhere you've already found. People worth stopping forOver 300 characters live on the trail — lodge keepers, salt porters, guides, monks, herders, traders, raiders — with nearly 300 conversation trees between them, written in their own voices.…