It started with a single trek to Hampta Pass in 2016 — a group of friends, a borrowed tent, and a map that got them thoroughly lost. What they found instead was something no map could capture: the silence of a glacier at dawn, the warmth of a local shepherd’s chai, the quiet triumph of reaching a high camp under a sky blanketed in stars.

From that trip came a question: why is it so hard to find a Himalayan trek that actually respects the mountains? One that doesn’t rush past the scenery, that trains and equips you properly, that hires local guides and porters at fair wages, that leaves the trail better than it found it?

The Great Indian Trails was built to answer that question. We curate routes across the Indian Himalayas — from the alpine meadows of Uttarakhand to the moonscapes of Ladakh, from the sacred valleys of Himachal to the wild eastern frontiers of Sikkim and Arunachal.