Safety & Advisories

Your Nepal Trekking Guide Just Spent the Week Learning to Keep You Alive Above 4,000m

Days before Nepal's autumn trekking season opens, two of the country's oldest mountain-safety institutions ran back-to-back wilderness first-aid…

By Dawa Sherpa · Aug 29, 2026

In the last full week of August 2026, with Nepal's autumn trekking season only days away, the country's oldest mountain-rescue body took a class of working trekking guides back to school. The Himalayan Rescue Association (HRA) ran a two-day Advanced…

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What the guides actually drilled

KEEP described its course as practical, hands-on training in the skills that matter most on a high-altitude trek: how to assess a trekker's condition, manage common injuries, perform CPR, safely lift and move an injured person, and — the one that saves the…

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Why this matters more than it sounds

On most of Nepal's classic treks, the nearest hospital is days of walking away and the nearest road often is too. When a trekker develops high-altitude pulmonary or cerebral oedema above 4,000m, the difference between a good outcome and a tragedy is…

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What this means for trekkers

What this means for you A licensed guide is now mandatory for most trekking regions in Nepal, so the quality of that guide's training is not a detail — it is your safety net. Before you book, it is entirely fair to ask whether your guide holds a current…

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Trek with guides who train for the worst day

Every guided trek we run is led by a licensed guide, on the classic high routes where this training matters most: Everest Base Camp — 14 days · from US$1,850 per person (past the Pheriche aid post) Manaslu Circuit — 14 days · from US$2,100 per…

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