Meet Our Guides

Happiest on cold, windy and miserable climbing expeditions on far-flung mountains, Jason is an avid mountaineer and an ultra-endurance athlete. In October 2018, he became the 24th Australian to summit Mt Manaslu, the eight highest mountain in the world. He has done the Everest Base Camp trek five times and climbed in all continents except Europe and Antarctica. Jason has….
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Romil joined the army in 1994 as a cadet in the prestigious National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla. He retired as a Special Forces officer and joined our prestigious Indian partner company as the CEO. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur & Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He has led 10 major mountaineering expeditions as team leader with…
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Bharath is a highly skilled mountaineer with a unique distinction of reaching the summits of Mt Everest, Mt Lhotse, Mt Manaslu, Mt Annapurna & Mt Kanchenjunga (all are 8000m+ peaks). He is a Genetic engineer by qualification. He has led multiple teams to the highest points in Africa, Europe, South America, Australia & Asia. He is an experienced mountaineer with 8 years…
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Ritesh is based in Manali – smack bang in the middle of the Himalayas, Manali is the launch pad for all types of expeditions into the Trans-Himalayan regions of Spiti, Kinnaur, Pangi, Zanskar and Ladakh. He completed his Masters in Tourism Management in ’97 and has been in the tourism business ever since. Ritesh is a pioneer in introducing several tourism concepts…
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Emanuel has been a tour guide on Kili since 2008 – with over a decade of experience, he has taken visitors on all the routes to the summit. Having summited over 180 times himself, Emanuel holds the record for the guide who has led the most guests on Mt Kilimanjaro, and has a 97.5% summit success rate. He has studied broadly on mountain sicknesses caused by altitude…
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Pemba hails from the Khumbu region and did his training for rock climbing, basic mountaineering and advanced mountaineering with the Nepal Mountaineering Association. In addition, he is an approved Helicopter Marshal and a Mountaineering Liaison Officer. Like many Sherpas, Pemba started as a porter for trekkers on the Everest Base Camp trail and…
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Lakpa hails from the remote village of Taplejung and did his mountaineering training with the Nepal Mountaineering Association. He summited Mt Everest (8,848m) at the young age of 24 years and has since summited one other 8-thousander… Mt Kanchenjunga (8,586m). he has been on three other international mountain expeditions and is well experienced with…
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