Members Practising Sustainable Tourism

In partnership with our Moving Mountains NGO, we invest in facilities in the mountain villages where our guides and porters live.
Working together and harnessing tourism money, there is now long term improved quality of life.

• Construction of a micro-hydro power plant to bring electricity
• Buying milling machines to invest in businesses
• Clean piped water supply to 66 homes so far
• Installation of 65 high efficiency cooking stoves (so far)
• All sustainable!

We have close ties with the mountain communities where our staff live, and with our Moving Mountains NGO we build schools and employ teachers in the villages where they live.
The ethos is to share your business success with the community.

• Building and upgrading classrooms, toilets, and providing water and power
• This contributes to happy family life and develops strong community life and ultimately happy staff
• Our volunteer programmes provide sustainable income for schools

We combine investment from our Moving Mountains NGO with sustainable financial support from AA.
For schools we use tourism to provide long term funding and also logistical support and advice.
In 20 years we've seen amazing turnarounds.

• We work with 'MM' to build new schools and facilities like water pumps, kitchens,. toilets, desks, chairs etc
• We offer trips for people to help with the project.
• Our volunteer programme provides long term financial support to the school

Realising the remote village of Baleygon in northern Pakistan had no suitable school facilities, but over 100 children needing an education, we set about our most ambitious project so far. The project started in 2010.

• Through £20,000 raised from initial K2 Charity Trek we:
• Bought additional land for the school
• Built 3 new classrooms
• Furnish classrooms
• Uniforms for children
• Employed new teacher
• Built toilet block
• Working and fundraising is on-going

Initiated by Mountain Kingdoms MD, Steve Berry, this unique project is building a rare Zanskari bridge of interwoven twigs, helping to keep ancient Zanskari traditions and culture alive. Email steve@mountainkingdoms.com for further info.

• Zanskar is a Tibetan Buddhist kingdom, just north of the main Himalayan range, in Ladakh, India.
• Traditionally Ladakhi people depended on incredible woven twig bridges in order to cross the icy rivers.
• 1st bridge has now been built

In 2009 we started a programme of regular donations to Conservation Lower Zambezi – an NGO which aims to reduce poaching and misuse of resources in Zambia's Lower Zambezi. These are ongoing, and to date have included:

• 8 GPS devices for anti-poaching patrols.
• 2 digital SLR cameras, for assisting CLZ's environmental education work.
• An air-to-ground radio for use on anti-poaching patrols.

With our NGO Moving Mountains we contribute to planting 15,000 trees a year in Sarawak
Our clients can offset their flights of course, but if they don't the money is still committed.
We help the Penan people develop their tourism potential.

• Set up a local co-operative for the Penan people for self-led project management.
• Brought in experts to teach them forest enrichment skills.
• Committed to paying for the seed collection.
• Started bringing groups to assist and help with money.