Sustainable Tourism

We run our trips in-house from Kathmandu, so the choices that affect porters, trails, and local income are ours to make. Here is what we actually do. We have left out anything we cannot stand behind.

Fair to porters

Porters carry our trips. We treat them as colleagues, not freight.

• We keep porter loads within TAAN (Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal) guidance, capped at around 25 kg per porter.
• Every porter is insured for the duration of the trek.
• We provide warm gear and proper footwear for higher and colder sections.
• Porters eat and sleep in the same lodges as the rest of the team, not in worse conditions down the hill.

If a load is too heavy for the route, we split it or hire another porter. We do not push past the cap to save money.

Pack it in, pack it out

The mountains stay clean only if every group carries its own waste back down. Ours do.

• We pack out plastic, used batteries, and tin rather than burning or burying them.
• We leave campsites and trail stops as we found them, or cleaner.
• We carry water-treatment options so trekkers can refill instead of buying bottled water along the trail.
• Our guides brief each group on waste before the trek starts, so it is a habit, not an afterthought.

Clean trails are not a marketing line. They are the result of carrying your own rubbish for a week.

Local money stays local

A trek should pay the people whose home you are walking through.

• Our guides, porters, and office staff are all hired in Nepal.
• Our lead guides are NTB-licensed.
• We return to the same family-run teahouses each season, which means the income is steady and the relationship is real.
• We buy supplies locally along the route where we can, rather than hauling everything from the city.

Booking direct with us means more of what you pay stays with the people doing the work, instead of being skimmed by layers of resellers.

Respect for the places and people

You are a guest on these trails. So are we.

• We follow local custom at temples, monasteries, and shrines, and we tell you what is expected before you arrive.
• We ask before photographing people. A photo is not owed to you because you bought a trek.
• We keep to marked trails to limit erosion and disturbance to grazing land.
• We keep group noise down near homes, schools, and places of worship.

An honest note

We do not claim to be carbon neutral. Flights to Nepal and internal flights have a real climate cost, and we are not going to paper over that with an offset badge.

What we can promise is the concrete list above: fair porter treatment, waste carried out, local hiring, and respect for the places we walk. [OWNER: confirm any community programmes]

If you want detail on any of this before you book, ask. We reply within one working day.