Snow leopard trek in Ladakh, India

Planet

Ladakh has a fragile environment with endangered flora and fauna. We encourage our travelers not to disturb the wildlife and birds, discouraging close photography, and discouraging guests from feeding marmots and other wildlife. We give proper briefings to our travelers before they undertake any of our outdoor activities.

We follow the concept of Leave No Trace. We produce cloth and straw bags for shopping, which we can re-use, and we use big clothes bags for trekking so that we can bring any rubbish back with us. We keep packaged items to the minimum.

Whilst trekking we use solar panel for electricity, and for charging camera batteries.

Whilst trekking we discourage travelers from washing clothes or bathing in the stream and water canals up above the farm villages. We also discourage the use shampoo and detergent in the stream water.

We encourage our guests to be economical with water, as many of our villages are facing severe water crises.

We have promised to reduce carbon emissions. Our crew don’t burn rubbish on trekking expeditions. Our office runs off solar and we don’t use other heating sources, to avoid smoke and ensure we provide safe energy. We use public transport and our staffs use bicycles to get around.

People

We buy local vegetables, fruits and oil from the local farmers, they are organic and direct benefit to the local farmers.

We encourage guests to buy local products from the women self help groups from different villages. They produce woolen hat, sock, gloves, sweater, and shawl. This practice generate income and encourage their traditional weaving, and knitting skill.

We organise a special cleanup trek once in a year normally end of the trekking season to bring awareness and collecting trash from trekking routs.

All our employees are local and that’s is the pride of our company, and we offer fair deal and handsome salary package and in return we became one the best operator in the region.

We are in contact with some remote school to contribute the best from our side, recently we have installed solar water heaters in two residential schools.
While visiting local villages, homestays, monasteries we give a proper briefing and encourage or clients to respect the local cultures , we also give some notes of Do and Don’ts while entering the conservative host communities.