Highland Trekking Initiatives
offering eco-treks on the roof of the world











The vast beauty of Western Tibet


"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity...The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men, whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains." -John Muir


Highland Trekking Initiatives is a new eco-trekking company that  is operating in Tibet.  The vision for HTI was conceived over 10 years ago. HTI is unique to other trekking companies in that we exist for the benefit of nomadic communities in Tibet. By providing treks and day hikes, we seek to provide Tibetans with opportunities for employment as well as provide trekkers with an opportunity to experience the richness of Tibet’s landscape and people.

HTI's vision is to eventually operate treks in the vast area of  Western Tibet (Ngari). We have been given permission to  operate treks in Western Tibet and have already begun  establishing relationships with people in that area, namely  Ngari Red Cross. Please stay tuned for more information  concerning our Ngari treks.

Currently we have three treks available serving
Nomadic communities nearer to Lhasa.  For more information please contact us on our e-mail. 

Highland Trekking Initiatives is also dedicated to the ecological preservation of Tibet. The high grasslands of Tibet are some of the most ecologically fragile in the world and it is our goal at HTI to partner with Tibetan Nomads in the preservation of their great land. Highland Trekking Initiatives will be offering low-impact treks for groups of 3-6 people.

We also seek to funnel our profits back into projects such as: Ngari Red Cross partnership, education, micro-enterprise businesses for nomads, livestock & rangeland management and conservation & ecological preservation and wildlife breeding programs.


                                                                                                                                                                         
Highland Trekking Initiatives
exists as a company to provide you with a glimpse of this fragile, unique and boundless land and the 
Nomadic People that live there. HTI's goal is to become a wholly Tibetan owned and operated business in the future, thus creating and sustaining a business by Tibetans for Tibetan Nomads.




                                      

                                        We are back and are up and trekking.




 


HTI is dedicated to conservation and the preservation of the Tibetan highlands.
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