- Tourism License No.: 1894/071
- Regd. No.: 129838/071/072
We’re not a booking platform reselling someone else’s itinerary. We’re guides, porters, and planners based in Kathmandu, doing the one thing we know better than anyone.
In 2009, three childhood friends from the Solukhumbu district — all working as porters and guides for foreign agencies — decided they were tired of watching most of the trip price leave Nepal before it reached the people doing the actual work.
They pooled savings, registered TrekUp Nepal with a single Everest Base Camp route on offer, and ran it out of a rented room with one jeep between them. That founding rule — the people leading the trek should be the people who benefit from it — still shapes how we hire today.
Four commitments we don’t compromise on, even when it costs us a booking.
Founded by three guides with one Everest Base Camp route and a rented office in Thamel.
Opened routes in Annapurna and Langtang; hired our first full-time female guide, Kamala Gurung.
Published our porter and guide wage rates publicly — among the first Nepali operators to do so.
Rebuilt every itinerary post-pandemic with built-in acclimatization days as standard, not an add-on.
4,200+ trekkers guided, 30+ local guides on staff, still 100% Nepali-owned.
Altitude sickness: what actually works
Everest Base Camp packing list
Best months to trek Annapurna
Guides are salaried staff with insurance, not day-rate freelancers picked up per trip.
We book the same family-run teahouses on repeat routes rather than rotating for discounts.
A share of every booking goes to a shared fund for trail and shelter upkeep in the regions we operate.
