We were born on the trail.

Kushav Trekking began in a small office above a tea shop in Thamel in 2011, with two desks, one telephone, and a map of the Khumbu pinned to the wall. The founder, Pemba, had spent twenty years carrying loads for other expeditions before he decided that travellers deserved something quieter — fewer stops, smaller groups, and guides who actually came from the valleys they were guiding through.

Today we are still small. There are eleven of us in Kathmandu and another twenty-four guides and porters scattered across the country. We turn down more trips than we accept, and we lead them ourselves.

We are not the cheapest outfit in Nepal. We are not the biggest. We are the one that will walk slowly with you, sit a while at every chorten, and stop for tea when the light is good — even if it puts us behind schedule.