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Fair wages, always
Our porters earn above the IPPG minimum, are insured for the trail, and never carry more than 25 kg.
Kushav Trekking Nepal
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Preparing the trail
Kushav Trekking Nepal
Preparing the trail
We were born in these valleys. Our parents grew rice on the terraces below Annapurna and our grandparents walked goods to Tibet across the Larkya La. The mountains aren't a resource for us. They are family.
Our porters earn above the IPPG minimum, are insured for the trail, and never carry more than 25 kg.
Every trek carries out its own waste. We refuse single-use plastic and provide filtered water bottles.
We use family-run teahouses, hire from the villages we walk through, and reinvest 5% of every trek into local schools.
Smaller groups mean lighter loads on the trail and quieter nights in villages that need their sleep.
We don't burn firewood for heating water on our treks. Solar showers and hot pots only.
We measure each trek's footprint and offset double through local reforestation in the middle hills.
We do not own these mountains. We are only allowed to walk in them — by the gods of the passes, by the families who keep the lodges open, by the porters who go ahead with our packs. Our job is to leave the trail clean enough that our children can walk it too.