Our Mission

Our mission

To leave landscapes cleaner and the people who work in them better off.

The environmental cost of tourism in Nepal and the human cost of tourism in Nepal are the same problem, and almost nobody treats them that way. Conservation groups work on the trails. Labour advocates work on the workers. We work on both, because the guide clearing your litter and the mountain accumulating it are part of one system.

Our vision

A Nepal where low-impact travel is the default rather than the exception, where the waste that comes off a trail enters a real disposal chain, and where the people who carry the industry are counted in how it accounts for itself.

How we work

Local ownership, not local participation. A programme that ends when we leave was never a programme. Every clean-up has a local waste route. Every plantation has a community that owns the saplings. We design for the day we are not there.

What we commit to

Local ownership. Local partners keep the work going long after the volunteers go home.

Repetition. One clean-up every month for three years beats one national campaign for one week.

Specificity. We would rather plant fewer trees that survive than more that photograph well.

Transparency. We publish what we did, where and with whom, including what underperformed.