Why Summit Excursions?

Summit Excursions is your perfect partner for travel, hiking, and expeditions to experience the unlimited adventurous journey. Whether you are seeking cultural tours, awe-inspiring treks, or tough expeditions, our well-trained, experienced team ensures a seamless and unforgettable journey in Nepal’s heavenly landscape and rich heritage. Here are the 18 points that you should handpick for Summit Excursions that make our company special and different from others:

1)  Local Experts of the Himalayas

Our local experts, who live in the areas we take you to, work exclusively for Summit Excursions to provide you with a genuine Nepalese experience. Our whole team is very experienced, highly skilled, and always available to ensure your journey is exciting and special, making every single moment count.

2)  Setting Safety Standards as the Top Priority

Our main focus throughout the entire trip is our client’s safety. All our team members and guides are well-trained in first aid and capable of supporting any kind of health or injury issue. We earnestly take mountain safety. Our guides carefully control the pace during high-elevation hikes to help you adjust properly to avoid acute mountain sickness.

Similarly, we use satellite phones and reliable cell networks to stay in constant touch with our office in Kathmandu and your trekking guides. Everything is monitored closely along with the changing climate that may affect the trek to ensure your safety. Additionally, we make sure all meals during the trek are prepared hygienically and fresh, as well as clean accommodations to keep you healthy.

3)  Unmatched Value

Summit Excursions partners with locally available experts to offer you affordable prices with the benefit of flexible booking choices and open-minded postponement or cancellation policies. We have complete confidence that in this way, we confer the most inexpensive traveling experience to people while conceding that your trips will be of the highest quality and the memories you create with us will be unforgettable.

4)  Premium Quality Service

Summit Excursions aims to offer you the finest experience with our experienced and skilled members who are highly specialized in their related fields. We work with partners who deliver excellent service while also making a positive impact on the local society.

5) Sustainable Tourism

Summit Excursions is all about traveling, a better way; traveling greener for the trip and every traveler on our journeys. Our balance is put to a Travelife Partner, fully encouraging the growth and raising of ecotourism.

Our cores during every single trip are being responsible towards both the society and the nature. In the meantime, we are using purification tablets or water filters on our treks in the mountains of Nepal and better yet if we could remove single-use plastic liquid bottles altogether this enables us to lead by example and take our conservation efforts for ecotourism a few steps further.

6)  Socially Responsible

Summit Excursions believes in supporting different societies by involving in charity work and promoting local participation in a common cause.

• Our Mission: Sustainable Travel and Community Empowerment

Our primary mission at Summit Excursions is to provide top-notch services to clients, ensuring their best travel experience, along with empowering the local communities by fostering eco-friendly travel plans. Similarly, we are solely focusing on making travel packages that establish strong, purposeful connections between travelers and nature.

Our objective is to collaborate with the local communities to improve the quality of life of people and the local economy of the region. Not only this, but we are also fully committed to protecting the beauty of mountain landscapes through our well-planned sustainable actions for the next many generations.

• Support Rotary International

Summit Excursions affiliates with Rotary International on a variety of community programs. We have been in charge of arrangements for hiking vacations and teacher training for Rotarians from clubs in Canada and Australia. We are also actively fundraising for the donation excursions.

• Volunteer Tourism or Voluntourism 

We are dedicated to creating such types of trips that promote the concept of “travel with a cause” to support local community development. The Summit Excursion voluntourism program consists of activities such as renovating school buildings and homes, working alongside local farmers, offering medical assistance at available local health centers, and teaching in schools.

7)  Fair Employee Practices

Summit Excursions is committed to going through eco-friendly and accountable tourism execution that benefits our whole group members, community, and clients who choose us for their thrilling trip. We know that by taking care of our employees, they will, in turn, look after our valuable clients.

• Adequate Training

Summit Excursions encourages rigorous training for our employees to ensure peak production. We give first-aid training and continuous language classes for our porters and guides, as well as additional equipment for their talents. Our guides are licensed and trained by premier institutes that specialize in developing competent travel experts. Our guides are licensed and trained by leading institutions that specialize in flourishing expert travel professionals. We limit porters’ maximum weight to 30 kilograms or 66.14 pounds to ensure the safety and well-being of our porters, who are well-trained to take on guiding responsibilities.

• Employee Recognition Programs

Summit Excursions organizes the “Guide of the Year” annual award program to honor the top guide based on the reviews of customers and their commitment to their assigned tasks. This honor not only inspires our expert guides but also guarantees a steadily enjoyable experience for our valuable customers.

• Fully Equipped Team

During the trek, accommodations with sleeping gear and tents are given to our team to be ready for any situation. Similarly, we supply suitable clothing, equipment, and gear to each team member and guide for every season and elevation to keep them safe from snow, cold, and rainfalls.

• Insured Staff and Guides

Summit Excursions offers reliable insurance to our hiking leaders, porters, and staff, covering the expenses of an emergency evacuation, helicopter rescue, medical bills, accidents, and many more in higher elevations during trekking excursions.

8)  Confirmed Departures

Summit Excursions provides confirmed departure dates. Your trip will go ahead once your booking is confirmed, no matter how many people sign up. We also organize trips even if there is just one reservation, except for a few tours that require at least two travelers. Even though our scheduled itinerary date plan doesn’t fit your plans, you can contact us freely so that we can plan alternative dates that work for you. This option is best for families or couples who want to go on a private trip.

9) Simple Booking Process

You can book your desired trips easily in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet with the help of our sales crew and our global agents in the USA, the UK, Australia, Switzerland, and many more. They will help you in your reservation process for the different tour packages available in Summit Excursions. They are major players in the marketing business as well as saving the hassle of the process and making it swifter.

In case you are faced with problems or need information, you may also grab a direct calling to our representatives who assure of the most accuracy. WeTravel, which we employ, is a legal payment platform that guarantees the protection of your financial information and an easy and a confidential online payment method.

10)  Quick Response Time

Summit Excursions’ main office is located in the capital city of Nepal. Kathmandu. Our office is open six days a week except Saturday and offers 24/7-hour customer service in case there are any queries regarding travel plans, dates, and others. We also have a facility for providing services to clients through our national and international sales crews. Emails are responded to within one working business day, whereas social media comments and questions are responded to on the same day.

11)  Accolade-Winning Company

Summit Excursions has been receiving Certificate of Excellence awards since its opening from TripAdvisor. Moreover, we were honored with TripAdvisor’s Traveler’s Choice Awards, National Tourism Awards, Local Awards, and Traveler’s Choice Awards from reputed institutions, showcasing our dedication and performance to provide top-notch quality services to our customers. These awards are proof showing why our company is the best travel company that ever existed in Nepal.

12)  Discounts for Groups

The sooner you find out how many people are going with you on the trip, the sooner you will get to know your discount. Summit Excursions has a discount schedule which is really substantial. You can now plan and go on with a well-managed day out for your group members for the company Summit Excursions at a much lesser cost besides enjoying the group discounts that save you a lot of money.

13)  Advance Domestic Flight Reservations

Summit Excursions pre-book all your flights for your exciting trip within our objective nations a few months ahead to prevent any last-minute issues that can create massive problems in the future. We have a strong relationship with domestic airlines, allowing us to get early tickets and perfect flights, especially booked for our clients. This is usually helpful for flights to and from Lukla, which is very complicated to reserve, particularly in the peak hiking seasons of Nepal.

14)  Endorsed by Independent Travelers

You can find endorsements for Summit Excursions on trusted travel websites such as Facebook, Google Plus, TripAdvisor, Trustpilot, YouTube vlogs, and other numerous platforms. You can see feedback and authentic experiences from our previous customers consistently rank among the top on TripAdvisor.

15)  Certified Operator

Summit Excursions is the official name of a government-licensed hiking and touring organization in Nepal, operated by Summit Excursions Tours and Travels Pvt. Ltd. We are dedicated to making sure you have a secure and fun vacation with us so you can book with confidence without any concerns. You can also view our legal documents to get more info.

16)  Guide to Porter Ratio

Summit Excursions entrusts one professional hiking guide for every seven people in a hiking group. Similarly, one porter is provided for every two hikers, with an additional porter for an odd number of trekkers in a group. We also provide one climbing guide for every 2 climbers on climbing expeditions.

17)  Trek, tour, and climb your way through the great outdoors!

A lot of packages for the vacation including trekking, short tours, classic hiking trips, lodging on the mountain, peak climbing, expeditions, and many more activities are available. You can choose the packages that you like to move around according to your physical fitness and that will be the time in life that you will never forget.

18)  Outside of Nepal

Summit excursions still have trips to Bhutan and Tibet, so we provide not only tours but also trips to Nepal. Our local representatives in these regions, working with our team in Nepal, will make sure you have a memorable vacation experience no matter where you choose to go.