PS
Pemba Sherpa
Lead Mountain Guide
Khumjung, Nepal
Born in the shadow of Everest. UIAGM-certified, twenty seasons on the high passes, and the calmest voice you'll hear at 5,000 metres.
6× Everest summits
Since 1998
We started as porters.
Three decades later we still carry the loads — we've just added the permits, the medics, the comms and a stubborn refusal to cut corners.
Our story
Born on the trail, not in a boardroom.
Himalayan Junkies began with three friends carrying other people’s bags up the Khumbu. We loved the mountains and quietly hated how the trips around us were run — oversized groups, underpaid crews, itineraries built for the calendar instead of the body.
So we built the company we wished we worked for. Small teams. Fairly-paid local guides who grew up in the ranges they lead. Acclimatisation schedules that put your lungs first and the spreadsheet second. And a flat promise: no one summits on marketing.
Today we run trips across four ranges and thousands of metres of vertical. The logo got nicer. The obsession didn’t change.
1998
First trip led
3,400+
Climbers guided
38
Guides & crew
0
Summit-fever shortcuts
The difference
Run like an expedition, not a holiday
The fun part is the walking. The reason it stays fun is everything we obsess over behind it.
Safety isn't a feature
Wilderness-trained guides, oxygen and a pulse-ox on every high trip, satellite comms, and evacuation plans you'll never need to think about.
Eight, never eighty
Small teams move faster, acclimatise smarter and leave less behind. You'll know everyone's name by day two.
Acclimatise properly
Our itineraries are built around the mountain, not the calendar — extra nights where your body needs them, not where it's cheapest.
Fair & low-trace
Insured, fairly-paid local crews. Carry-in, carry-out. A cut of every trip funds trail and school projects in the valleys we walk.
The crew
The people you'll actually be walking with
No anonymous outfitter. These are the guides and fixers who'll read the weather, pace your climb and pour the morning tea.
TD
Tenzin Dolkar
Expedition Leader
Leh, Ladakh
Knows every homestay and hidden spring between Spituk and Hemis. Wilderness-first-responder trained, fluent in five mountain dialects.
12 years in the Zanskar
KW
Karma Wangchuk
Bhutan Specialist
Paro, Bhutan
One of a handful of guides who has crossed all eleven Snowman passes. Reads weather windows like a forecaster and cooks a mean ema datshi.
Snowman finisher ×3
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Anya Rai
Logistics & Safety Lead
Kathmandu, Nepal
Runs the operation behind the operation — permits, evac plans, oxygen, and the satellite check-ins that let you forget all of it and just walk.
Wilderness EMT
Next season is filling up
Ready when you are.
Tell us roughly where your head's at — a peak, a window, a fitness level — and we'll send back a real itinerary, not a brochure.
- Free cancellation up to 60 days out
- Best-price guarantee
- Financially protected
- No hidden fees, ever