Our Commitment to Environment
We ensure our trips have as little impact as possible on the environment. We are involved in a number of schemes across the regions we serve, to help give back to the communities and landscapes, which we enjoy visiting so much.
We have donated funds to schemes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which help communities to mitigate flood risk, through tree planting and improved drainage networks. Both countries are susceptible to heavy seasonal rain, caused by large swings in temperature – this can lead to flash flooding, devasting villages and crops, particularly in rural areas (read more here and here).
These tree planting schemes help soak up water during times of high rain and protect villages, meanwhile the improved drainage networks divert water back to large watercourses and away from inhabited areas. Many of the projects in Afghanistan are organised in collaboration with Afghan Aid, which completes extensive work across the nation to help alleviate poverty and support Afghan communities.
Along with our work to improve flood prevention and tree planting in Pakistan and Afghanistan, we also have a leave no trace policy, ensuring we minimise our impact on the environments we visit. We ensure we leave no litter and take particular measures to prevent waste on our remote trekking trips. These steps include, XX
We also have a scheme for guests, who can benefit from refillable water filter bottles, which we post out on request, to our UK guests and those based in Europe. Our guests can then use them on our trips, helping to reduce plastic waste in the nations we visit, where recycling rates can often be poor and there is a high volume of single use plastic produced every year.
These scheme also helps ensure a clean supply of water in some of the challenging destinations we serve, often in remote areas, where access to clean water can be tricky.