FiHP Information

Friends in High Places is different from other trekking agencies. Instead of selling fixed tours or grouping you with strangers, we work with you to create the Himalayan adventure of your dreams - and your budget. Email us and tell us about your expectations and hopes, and what you dream might be possible. Send along your questions too. Talking together by email or Skype allows us to build tours and treks based on what excites you. These two great ultra operate Pokhara, hub for Annapurna region treks. (New areas are being developed and licensed too.) If your visit has you in Pokhara for a free morning or day, do one or both of these for a true bird's-eye view of the mountains. Nepal's rivers rush from the high mountains to the southern plains in a mere 100 miles / 160 kilometers. Where their descent is moderately level, whitewater rafting beckons. And where rafting isn't possible, there's canyoning. Whitewater in Nepal? You bet! Nepal is the most vertical country in the world, with great rivers rushing down from the high Himalayas. In flood these rivers are monsters, and even during low flow they remain exciting adventures. We work with two rafting outfits in Kathmandu as agents. We book your program at the same prices you would directly, and handle all the details. Only the bravest travelers are interested in biking through Kathmandu's heavy traffic, but once out of the city center, mountain biking is awesome! You can tool around the back roads of the Kathmandu Valley on short rides or get off-road for day rides or longer adventures The jungle safaris in Nepal are the natural gift of the Gangetic Plain that connects south Nepal and north India for 500 kilometers. This stretch was called the Char Koshe Jhari in Nepal, meaning the 'eight-mile forest' and was a formidable barrier until the 1950s. It was not only the dense foliage of the lowlands, but also the scourge of incurable malaria that discouraged human penetration of the belt Mountain flight is a much easier way to see the Nepali Himalayan peaks. Most ...