Carbon score, per person, per journey
Every journey publishes an estimated kg CO₂-equivalent per traveler, calculated from ground transport (jeeps, buses, porters’ overland travel), fuel used in mess-tent kitchens, and a share of our office overhead. It does not include your international flights — those are yours to measure and offset, and we provide guidance in the pre-trip pack.
We’re working on a full third-party carbon audit for the 2027 season.
Zero plastic in homestays and camps
Since 2023 no journey we run carries bottled water. Kitchen teams boil and filter drinking water daily; every traveler is expected to bring a reusable bottle. Snacks in mess-tent are unwrapped; leftovers are packed out.
On the Baltoro and other permit-required glaciers, we carry out every wrapper, every wipe, every tea bag. Human waste on long treks uses W.A.G. Bags or a leader-managed pit-toilet setup depending on the site.
Glacier stewardship
We do not run technical mountaineering ourselves — that’s not our expertise. What we do is respect the ground rules of the operators who do. On the K2 basecamp trek that means:
- Group size capped at 10 travelers (industry standard is 16+).
- Porter loads capped at 25 kg with insured, medically-checked crew.
- No burning of trash on the ice.
- Contribution to the Central Karakoram National Park clean-up fund.
What we still burn a lot of
Diesel. Jeeps up the Braldu, the KKH, the Wakhan road, the Pamir Highway — there’s no electric alternative and there won’t be one for a decade. We’re honest about that. Where we can, we consolidate journeys and reduce empty leg-runs. We’re not greenwashing this: mountain travel has a real carbon cost. The best we can do is measure it, publish it, and try to bring it down each year.