PORTER FOR GOKYO TREK

[terence]

Hello
Thank you very much for this information it is extremely helpful.
Especially about the acclimatisation.
If Gokyo is too ambitious for 10 days I think that I will change my route.
Perhaps Ill spend a couple of days in Namche Bazar and trek to Thyanboche and back.
Do you think it will take two days from Lukla to Namche Bazar? If it does and Im there for two days then this is a round trip of eight days.
Regards
Terence

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[terence]

Thanks again this information is useful to me.
Best wishes
terence

[yakshaver]

You may well be rigth about Tenzing. I will have to check. He has also spend time with the large sherpa community in Darjeeling.

[jed]

We went there last year

YOU DO NOT NEED A GUIDE OR PORTER

[terence]

The reason that I will employ a guide/porter is beacause I believe that it is right to put something back into the economy of Nepal by providing work.
In this way the money stays in the economy of Nepal.

I want all of the money to go to the people who do the work and not a company that may take a large slice of the hard earned wages.

Their work is physically hard and not well paid.

It is important that we who employ guides/porters ensure that while we employ them that they have suitable clothing and medical insurance.

I have found that many people who hire independent guides do not do this.

I hope that by reading this more will.

There are links to organisations on this site that can assisst in matters of insurance.

[jed]

well if thats your view
then why not?
if you can afford it, go for it!

as long as you know you have the choice

Jed

[Jürgen Richterich]

Hi,

within my website http://www.richterich-online.de, which is also available in English now, I report about my Nepal friends Mim Bahadur Shresta as a tour guide and Rajeshwor Manandhar. If you like to get in contact with them, please use out website. Both are registered member off our chat-room.
On Sunday morning, 08:45 am German time or 01:30pm Kathmandu time, we are online and my be you will come into the chat and find answers to all of your questions. You can start the chat as a guest or you request for a login.
Awaiting you within the chat,

Namaste
Juergen

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