Asian Trekking

Asian Trekking is a Nepal-based adventure company, specializing in mountaineering expeditions and trekking in the Himalayas. Started in December 1981 by UIAA Honorary Member Ang Tshering Sherpa, 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 over the leadership of the company and continues to serve as the managing director to this day.

Asian Trekking offers expedition support services, which include options from base camp support to full-service summit expeditions. According to the Himalayan Database, Asian Trekking has organized 889 mountaineering expeditions in Nepal and Tibet, including 284 expeditions on Mount Everest, making it the company with the most number of expeditions organized.

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