Asian Trekking

Everest towers over its western shoulder, the Khumbu icefall, and on the right Nuptse
Closer view of Everest and its western shoulder
Chinese Tibet's Shishapangma
Lhotse
Lhotse and Everest peaks from space (their eastern side)

Asian Trekking is a Nepal-based adventure company, specializing in mountaineering expeditions and trekking in the Himalayas. Started in 1982 by UIAA Honorary Member Ang Tshering Sherpa,[1] it is Nepal's oldest mountaineering and trekking company still in operation. In 2008, Tshering's son Dawa Steven Sherpa, an environmentalist and mountaineer, took leadership of the company.[2]

Asian Trekking offers expedition support services. According to the Himalayan Database, Asian Trekking has organized 889 mountaineering[3] expeditions in Nepal and Tibet, including 284 expeditions on Mount Everest.

  1. ^ "History". Asian Trekking. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
  2. ^ "Dawa Steven Sherpa".
  3. ^ "Himalayan Database Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley". himalayandatabase.com. Retrieved 2023-07-31.