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A Pokhara guide since 1998 on the day we turned down an easy, fully-paid booking — because the schedule was unsafe. Why acclimatisation is a safety…
By Rajan Gurung · Jul 30, 2026
The email arrived on a Tuesday, and I remember it because everything about it was designed to be hard to refuse. The traveller was fit — genuinely fit, the kind who runs marathons and posts the splits. He had done his reading. He had the budget, the flights…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
Here is the thing I have had to explain, gently, hundreds of times over the years, and I will explain it to you now because it may one day be your email in my inbox. Altitude sickness does not care how fit you are. It does not care how much you want it, how…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
A rushed high-altitude itinerary is, in my experience, the single most common reason a trip ends badly — more common than bad weather, bad boots, or bad luck. When you cut acclimatisation days, you are not shaving off sightseeing. You are removing the…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
We have operated since 1998. Our guides have led more than 5,000 treks. In all that time we have had zero client fatalities — and I want to be very clear about how that number is actually protected. It is not luck, and it is not only good gear and…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
I want to reframe the whole episode for you, because there is a lesson in it that will protect you long after you have forgotten my name. When you are choosing who to trek with, watch what happens the moment you ask for something ambitious. If an agency says…
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