Choosing Skardu Trekkers for your adventure means opting for quality, safety, and unparalleled experience. Here’s why our trips might cost more but offer exceptional value:

1. • Fair Wages: We provide our staff and porters with wages that are above the industry average, ensuring their well-being and motivation.
   • Gourmet Meals: Our dedicated cooks prepare high-quality meals that surpass the usual trekking fare, adding a unique twist to hearty trekking food.
   • Comfortable Camps: After a long day of trekking, we ensure our campsites are as comfortable as possible. Our camps include tables, comfy chairs, a spacious mess/dining tent, a proper toilet tent for privacy, a generator for charging electronics, and endless pots of French press coffee, tea, and plates of cookies upon arrival. These details create an unparalleled camp-life experience.
   • Leadership: Each trek is led by a minimum of two trip leaders – one Western leader and one local leader, ensuring a blend of international standards and local expertise.
   • Small Group Size: We maintain a maximum group size of 12 people to provide a more personalized and enjoyable experience.
   • Safety Protocols: Skardu Trekkers stands out with our professional and comprehensive safety plans. Our guides are trained in wilderness first aid and risk management, ensuring your safety is our top priority.

The Hunza Rush Peak Expedition, like all high-altitude treks, involves a certain amount of risk. However, at Skardu Trekkers, your safety is our top priority. Our experienced ground team is dedicated to ensuring a safe adventure by focusing on injury prevention and emergency preparedness.

1. • Emergency Preparedness: We go above and beyond by carrying all necessary tools to manage emergencies, including a satellite phone, which is often neglected by budget operators due to its cost.
   • Client Trust: Our commitment to safety is a significant reason why clients choose us and continue to return for different adventures year after year.

Participants in the Hunza Rush Peak Expedition must apply for a Pakistani Trekking and Mountaineering Visa, which is different from the standard tourist visa. Skardu Trekkers provides all the necessary documentation for the visa application, including the Letter of Invitation (LOI).

Yes, trekking experience is essential for the Hunza Rush Peak Expedition. Standing at 5098 meters, this expedition presents various challenges, including steep slopes and glacier crossings.

1. • Experience Required: Prior experience with high-altitude treks and basic mountaineering skills are crucial for ensuring safety and success on this expedition.

Absolutely. At Skardu Trekkers, we prioritize the safety and well-being of all our trekkers, including solo female travelers.

1. • Solo Women Travelers: We pair solo women with another solo female traveler as hotel/tent mates. If there is no other female to pair with, you will not be required to share a tent.
   • Safety and Support: Our experienced team is dedicated to providing a secure and supportive environment throughout the journey. We have successfully guided many solo female travelers on our treks.
   • Safety of Northern Pakistan: Northern Pakistan is very safe for travelers. In fact, it is often said that you are safer traveling in Northern Pakistan as a woman than walking alone at night in major cities like Paris or New York City.