The study shows no lesions on the Kilimanjaro trek, which is more akin to an EBC trek than to climbing Everest, even if you climb Kala Patthar on the EBC trek. Even then, Kilimanjaro is much more intense than hiking to EBC, and a lot more people proportionately get some sort of altitude sickness on Kilimanjaro due improper acclimatization.
Honestly, if you want to hike to EBC, I'd worry more about the flight into Lukla. Or edema from AMS.
(I've climbed a "trekking peak" [Lobuche East] in Nepal as well as Kilimanjaro.)
Honestly, if you want to hike to EBC, I'd worry more about the flight into Lukla. Or edema from AMS.
(I've climbed a "trekking peak" [Lobuche East] in Nepal as well as Kilimanjaro.)