YOUR LIFELINE

www.adventure-international.com Our community initiatives are literally the foundation of Adventure International. Founders Frank and Ake started out together in East Africa with their flagship ground operation, built specifically on the principle that ethics, above all else, should determine the structure of ground operations and hence the impact that tourism could, and perhaps should have. Since 2007 we have provided funding and support to train around 1000 porters and guides in East Africa. These initiatives continue and in 2012 we expect to expand on our training programs, develop new career progression initiatives and provide direct funding to easement projects in ecologically sensitive areas in Tanzania. Concurrent developments are also underway as we expand ground operations in both Kenya and Nepal - our core areas of operation. Guide and porter training as ever remains of key interest and with the help of our valued partners, tour operators and friends, we aim to make a difference to the industry from a structural point of view (very simply - trips should be measured in terms of the proportion of revenue left in country and should contribute to training and development) and in doing so also deliver great trips! Well-paid and incentivized crews, communities that see positive benefits of travel are facets of travelling that we can impact - and we intend to.

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Health, Safety, Hygiene and Fire Safety training with Major Laxmi Bhakta Bantawa Rai, MBE (Certified Instructor, UK) for trekking guides, cooks and group leaders at our Kathmandu offices. 

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Reforestation Project 

In a remote village of Deusa in the Solu District of Nepal, we have initiated a Reforestration Program where using the invaluable help of a local Ambar Rai a tree nursery has been established to restore the once thriving but now completely destroyed indigenous Magnolia (Michelia Doltsopa) & Tooni (Cedrela Toona) forest.  These trees were logged many years ago by the locals for timber.  Early 2010 Ambar Rai was sent for a reforestation training program conducted by the ACAP (Annapurna Conservation Area Project) in Pokhara. With the help of Ambar and the locals of Deusa who are keen to restore the original forest we hope our small effort will go a long way.

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5 years ago our partners started a pig farm in East Nepal to create a livelihood for those displaced by political and economic problems in Nepal. That small effort in the right direction did better every year. Last year they established another farm in Kathmandu and this year in August they launched premium pork products under the brand - GMP (Godawari Meat Products). 

From this trekking season on our clients will be the first visitors tohave their pork products on their trek. For those who eat pork - what better reason to come to Nepal ! Fresh Coffee, thick cut bacon, sizzling hot Sage Sausage and freshly made bread with of course the Himalaya in the background and that's only breakfast!

Photo: We only rear pigs born in our farm. Pigs reared for pork are either gilts (females that have never been bred) or barrows (castrated males). Never sows or boars. Our pigs are a cross between Saddlebacks, Duroc and Pakhribas Black.

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SAFETY Adventure International takes your safety extremely seriously. There are 3 essential components to the Summits Africa approach to keeping you safe on any one of our trips: 1. Training 2. The right tools for the job (oximeters, PAC, oxygen, stretchers, team work, customised constant monitoring system) 3. Communications & backup (sat phones, telephones, radios, evacuation teams, 24 hour backup, liaising with base team)

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Crossing the Laurebina pass. 1:1 trekker/porter,guide ratio.

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Here our porters take part in our HIV/AIDS awareness program with the Society for International Change. 

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Jiri Porter. 

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We do not rest during the low season. Time for two months of intensive  guide and porter training.