Record setting mountaineer Apa Sherpa and Ambassador of ‘Climate for Life’ Campaign Dawa Steven Sherpa set out on their ‘Great Himalaya Trail-Climate Smart Celebrity Trek (GHT-CSCT)’ from Ghunsa in Taplejung,Eastern Nepal on Tuesday (January 16th 2012). They will be traversing the 1,700 KM long trail in about 120 days, hiking through the foot hills of [...]
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Everest Base Camp Trek – October, 2011
Dough Ferris, a Corporate Sales Manager from Sydney Australia and his friends trekked to Everest Base Camp with us in Autumn. We recieved an email from him a few days ago. Here's what he had to say: “First of all I would like to thank you for all your work in organizing our trek. From [...]
The Great Himalaya Trail – Climate Smart Celebrity Trek in January,2012
Record setting mountaineer Apa Sherpa and Ambassador of Climate for Life Campaign Dawa Steven Sherpa are all set to take the 1,700 KM and 120 days long Great Himalaya Trail on 15th January, 2012. The event which is titled ‘The Great Himalaya Trail-Climate Smart Celebrity Trek (GHT-CSCT)’ is organized by the Himalayan Climate Initiative (HCI), [...]
Danish Climbers Scale Mera Peak – October 2011
On October Explore Himalaya organized an expedition to Mera Peak(6654m) for a large group of 13 Danish climbers. The team leader was Ole Andreassen. The team along with 6 climbing sherpas from Explore Himalaya left Kathmandu and flew to Lukla on 7th October from where their trek started. By 19th October the team had reached [...]
Makalu Base Camp Trek
John Paul Van Der Woerd from Amsterdam had trekked to Kanchenjunga in 2007 with us. He returned to Nepal again this year in November, to try another challenging trek to the base of the world's fifth highest mountain Mt. Makalu at 8475m. Though it was a difficult and challenging trek, John along with three other [...]
Yala Peak Trekking
Every once in a while we receive thank-you notes and e-mails from happy and satisfied clients for making their trips memorable (in a good way!:-)). Here are some comments we received from clients who went on a trekking expedition to Yala Peak, Langtang region in October 2011. “…I was with Trapp Lewis and his group [...]
Island Peak Summit
Danish Climbers Anders Løvschal & Anders Lyhne at the summit of Island Peak (6163m) (Photo taken on 18th October 2011/ Photo courtesy Anders Lyhne) Read their interview
Danish Friends Scale Island Peak (6173m)
Good friends Anders Løvschal & Anders Lyhne from Denmark have much in common – apart from the obvious, similar first names, both share a passion for travel & adventure and both are engineers. Travelling to Nepal for the first time, the friends took on a climbing challenge and scaled Island Peak(6173m) in the Everest Region.That [...]
Jomsom Trek
A trek to Jomsom and rafting adventure on the Trishuli River was recently organized by Explore Himalaya for a group of eight Israeli visitors. They trekked from Jomsom to Ghorepani, walking through the villages of Tukuche, Marpha, Ghasa, Tatopani & Poon Hill en route. On their return trip to Kathmandu they stopped briefly at Royal [...]
Recce trek to Everest Base Camp
And here’s Samir’s account: “The story of my journey began when I unexpectedly received an offer from my office, Explore Himalaya Travel & Adventure to visit an Everest region. It was like a dream come true as going on a Trek to Everest was something I had dreamed of. This was a kind of educational [...]