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Our responsible commitment extends to helping the local communities we visit. We employ local expedition leaders and mountain guides. Private local mountain guides are pre-booked for summit day; once booked they are guaranteed their fee even if the climb is aborted due to severe weather conditions.
Our Ecuadorian ground handler is the first adventure tour operator with an ISO14001 certificate for Environmental Systems for their adventure travel operations.
We donate approx USD$500 per trek to various projects including Laracunga and Carlisama communities in the Otavalo area. These communities are small young indigenous communities, who make a living from cane beans, corn, yucca and grazing live stock. The donation we make goes to the community’s school by supplying them with resources for maintaining the school buildings.
As a company we have also drastically reduced the carbon footprint of our UK operations, and are making a huge effort to do so in their destination countries too. We are also investing to offset the emissions from the international flights required to take part in our challenges.
We also provide travellers with a responsible tourism policy detailing ways in which you can be an ethical traveller. From packing conscientiously to advice on local customs & environmental awareness overseas to maintaining contact with your new international friends upon your return – our policy is a comprehensive document providing all the info you need to trek, climb of cycle responsibly.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
