The lazy way to see Everest is to fly over and around it in a Buddha Airways pressurized turbo-prop—out of Kathmandu airport.
Costs a couple of hundred bucks and is an experience you'll never forget.
Nothing—and I mean nothing—you have seen or read prepares you for the sheer scale of the mountain.
And if you're in Kathmandu...there's this bar called "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"....