Our complete Responsible Adventure Traveller Guide — everything we want every guest to know before booking and while on trail, from gear and safety protocols to how we run our trips responsibly.

This guide is written for anyone planning an adventure trip – a first-time trekker, camper, rafter ; even a seasoned traveller booking with any operator, or a parent helping their child choose a safe expedition. No prior knowledge required.

Adventure travel is not like other tourism. If a hotel gets the room wrong, or your car doesn’t meet you at the airport, you complain. If an adventure operator gets it wrong, the wrong tent at 5,000 metres, a guide who misses your symptoms of altitude sickness, absence of an evacuation plan when the storm comes, people face immense personal risk. This is not hypothetical. This genre of travel has 3 important components – Risk. Effort. The Unknown. And that is why this gains significance.

Every chapter in this guide comes from experience in the outdoors since 1992 – from the decisions we made about equipment when there was no market for it, the ratios we held to when it would have been cheaper not to, the evacuations we ran without asking whether the guest had insurance. Use it before you travel for your next adventure. Use it to ask better questions. Use it to keep our outdoors safe and clean.