Direct. Honest. Experienced.

I'm Lopsang Sherpa.

I grew up in Chitog, a small village in Solukhumbu, in the Everest region. The mountains were not somewhere I visited. They were where I lived.

I have held my guide licence since 2018, number 20007, and I have been guiding ever since. For the first few years I did it alongside university in Kathmandu, where I studied IT, and a job in a mountain bike shop. Eventually the bike shop had to go, because two jobs and a degree was one thing too many, and guiding was the one I did not want to give up.

My first trek was into Tsum Valley, the hidden sacred valley behind Manaslu. It is still one of the most remote places I have walked.

Since then I have worked in every major region of Nepal: Everest and Gokyo, the Three Passes, Langtang, Upper Mustang, Annapurna Base Camp, Khopra Danda and Poon Hill. My favourites are the Manaslu Circuit and Everest Base Camp.

The part of the job I care most about is reading the weather and changing the plan when it needs changing. A trek fixed in Kathmandu three months before you arrive is a trek that will fight the mountain. I would rather ask you each evening how you are feeling and what you want tomorrow, and adjust.

I speak Nepali and English, and French at B1. I am still taking classes. I will probably teach you a card game.