Tumlingtar Airport (VNTR / TMI)

Tumlingtar Airport is in Tumlingtar, Nepal, at 27.3150° north and 87.1933° east. Its ICAO code is VNTR and its IATA code is TMI.

Tumlingtar Airport stands at 1,600 ft, which is 488 m above sea level. That is the surveyed elevation of the landing surface itself rather than of the surrounding terrain, which is why it can differ from the height quoted for the town or the ridge above it.

Yes, as a private charter. No operator on this platform publishes a scheduled helicopter route through Tumlingtar Airport, which is not the same as it being unreachable — a helicopter needs a level site and a clear approach rather than a runway. The charter desk quotes it against the date, the party and the landing permissions.

Tumlingtar Airport is VNTR in ICAO's four-letter system, and TMI in IATA's three-letter system, which is the code that appears on an airline ticket.

Formally an airport: it holds the ICAO code VNTR, which is only issued to a registered aerodrome. "Airstrip" is the informal word for the short, often unlit mountain runways that make up most of Nepal's network, and it is used about this one as often as "airport" is. Both describe the same place. What is not an airstrip is a helipad, and ten of the eighteen sites on this platform are helipads with no runway of any kind.

Syangboche Airport is the nearest registered airport to the summit, about 29 km away in a straight line, though the airport almost everyone means is Lukla Tenzing-Hillary Airport at about 39 km: it has the scheduled service, and it is where the Everest treks and most Everest helicopter itineraries begin. Tumlingtar Airport itself is about 79 km from the summit. Closer than any airport are the helicopter landing sites at Everest Base Camp and Kala Patthar, neither of which has a runway.