We are the group of dynamic and energetic professional team striving to offer the organized trekking and tours across Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. We believe in synergetic effects and work as a single team to deliver what we have promised in our well designed itineraries. All of our trekking and tour guides are comprehensively trained and licensed by the government of Nepal. With the strong belief in the concept of responsible tourism and eco-tourism; we would like to share the feeling of what it is like to trek in the Himalayas full of adventure, excitement and accomplishment.
Customer satisfaction is our primary goal. Inquiries, suggestion, opinions and requests of each and every of our clients are addressed and personally taken care of. Whenever we travel, we make sure you are 100% safe and perceive the joy of trekking/traveling to the fullest. Travel with us and be the part of our team!
Mr. Hari Shrestha is the founder and managing director of the company. With profound knowledge and experience in the tourism field, he is an excellent adventurer and tourism veteran. Beginning his tourism career as a porter in 1998, after few years he became a licensed trekking and climbing guide. He has leaded several trekking and mountaineering groups to many 6000m peaks of Nepal such as Mera Peak, Island Peak, Lobuche East Peak, Tent Peak, etc. After leading international groups for many years for trekking and climbing trips established himself as a senior guide and later established a company. Mr. Shrestha is perfect personality as a leader - trekking leader, climbing leader as well as an organization leader.
Mrs. Indira Bhatta is one of the founders of the company and looks after administration, sales and corporate affairs. She always had the interest in tourism sector. After graduation, she eventually started the career in the tourism sector through a reputed trekking company in 2005 as trip planner. She became more and more passionate towards trekking and tourism industry. She has done some trekking in some of the trekking routes of Nepal. She is an outgoing and determined personality. When she is not working she spends her time with her husband and two boys in her mountain hut or travelling across the mountains with her dear ones!
Your trekking in Nepal experience will be guided by our trained trekking guide Shiva Shrestha. Starting the career as the porter in 2004, now he is the government licensed trekking guide in Nepal with years of experience. He belongs from hilly region of Dhading and possesses the comprehensive knowledge of local tradition, culture, festivals and history. Along with fluency in English, he possesses the leadership quality and excellent interpersonal skills which is the necessity for every trekking leader. He has vast experience of trekking in Everest region, Annapurna region, Langtang region, Manaslu, and Upper and Lower Dolpo region of Nepal. You would surely love to embark for the adventure trekking with him.
After a few interactions with Lok, anybody will find him as a humble & wise gentleman. Lok started working as a trekking guide since end of nineties. Lok has been working with Icicles Adventure since 2015 and is among Icicles’s senior trekking guide. He is our most professional, experienced, knowledgeable, English speaking trekking guide. Lok has led trekking groups to most of the trekking trails of Nepal uncountable times. Some of them are Everest Base camp classic trail, Gokyo Lakes and Everest Base Camp Trek, Everest three passes trek, Everest View Trek, Annapurna Circuit Trek, Annapurna Base camp trek, Ghorepani Poonhill Trek, Langtang Valley Trek, Langtang Gosainkunda Trek, Manaslu Circuit Trek, Tsum Valley Trek, Upper Mustang Trek, Upper Dolpo trek, Kanchenjunga and Dhaulagiri Circuit Trek and many many others trails too.
Born amid the mountains of mid-western Nepal, Mangale(Popularly known as Ram) started working as a porter back in the nineties . Most trekking guides of Nepal start their career working as a porter for few years. After few years of working as a porter, he got trekking guide training and starting working as a guide. He has been working with Icicles Adventure since 2014 and popular as our most experienced, respectful, cheerful, friendly trekking guide. Anybody likes his company; our past clients who have once trekked with him prefer to go again with him for their next treks. Ram has trekked these trekking trails of Nepal uncountable times: Everest Base camp, Gokyo Lakes and Everest Base Camp Trek, Everest three passes trek, Everest View Trek, Annapurna Circuit Trek, Annapurna Base camp trek, Ghorepani Poonhill Trek, Khopra Danda and Mohare Danda trek, Langtang Valley Trek, Langtang Gosainkunda Trek, Manaslu Circuit Trek, Upper Mustang Trek, Upper Dolpo trek, and many many others trails too. He has also done pilgrimage trail in Tibet to Kailash Manasarovar several times in his life.
This young and energetic youngster has been working as a trekking guide since five years and joined Icicles team since 2016. Fluent in English, Ram is a well educated, well informed, knowledgeable, friendly, professional trekking guide who have guided tour groups through many trails of Everest including Everest Base camp classic trail, Gokyo Lakes and Everest Base Camp Trek, Gokyo Lakes & Gokyo Ri, Everest three passes trek, Everest View Trek, Annapurna Circuit Trek, Annapurna Base camp trek, Ghorepani Poonhill Trek, Langtang Valley Trek, Langtang Gosainkunda Trek, Upper Mustang Trek and a lot of trails in the outskirts of Kathmandu. He loves to keep his beard, but cunningly gives the reason for his love for beard is because it protects his skin from the harsh sunlight during high altitude treks.
Our most adorable female tour and trekking guide. After perusing her Bachelor’s degree she decided to develop her career as tourist guide. She got tourist guide training from the most reputed organization , NATHAM that has been producing various types of tourism professionals, hotel chefs, tour guides, trekking guides, etc. Later, she realized that her real interest is in exploring the mountains and the Himalayas, thus she pursued the trekking guide training and started working as a trekking guide. She has trekked few trails of Everest, Annapurna and Langtang. As a guide, she truly loves to take people to the Himalayan paths and side-trails, and to give them a taste of Nepal ‘s culture to provide a multi-sensory travel experience.
Younger brother of Govinda, Mr. Prakash grew up watching the trekkers trekking through his village to get to the base of Everest. So as soon as he was a teenager, he started working as a porter. He started into trekking as a porter for Icicles Adventure and by now he has been upgraded into a trekking guide after exploring major trekking trails and passing the trekking guide training. He walked through a number of trails as a porter and also has been guiding since 2 years to the major trekking regions like Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, Manaslu. We would describe him as cheerful and friendly rising hero of Icicles Adventure.
Govinda is trekking guide hailing from the historic Solukhumbu district, the district where the world’s highest mountain, Everest lies. So, his main expertise lies in area of Everest region. However, he also has experience of guiding our customers to Annapurna and Langtang. We would describe him as a little bit shy but disciplined, knowledgeable, and professional young trekking guide. He believes working as a guide provides the best opportunity to explore the beauty of Nepal and gives the opportunity to expose hidden culture to the travelers.
Kipa is the experienced climbing guide in Nepal who is going to lead you towards peak of snow capped mountains. His involvement in this field is from 2006. We know him as the young and energetic leader with jolly character. He will understand your climbing/mountaineering capability and guides you to the snowy peaks accordingly. With the vast experience in climbing and mountaineering, he has successfully conquered the 7000 meters massif many times. With good hold in English, Nepali, Sherpa and Korean language he will be great leader, guide and the partner while climbing the peaks and make your holiday in Nepal a true adventure.
Surya’s hometown is Dhading District and he has been trekking through the hills and mountains since his childhood. Following his passion towards trekking, he has been a professional, government licensed trekking guide since more than a decade and half.
Surya shines throughout the major destinations of Nepal like Everest, Annapurna, Langtang and Upper Mustang Regions. He takes both pride and pleasure in offering excellent service to our guests and is very competent and courteous. With his friendly and professional nature, we are proud to have him in our team. He has a good sense of humor and holds fluency in English language as well. He always stays focused on travelers’ satisfaction.
In 2003, he thought of starting the professional career in tourism sector. He sparked his career as the porter and now he is experienced and licensed trekking guide in Nepal. He belongs to Dhading district, and has experience of leading groups in all of the trekking regions of Nepal. He also has international exposure with visit to few Middle East countries. While trekking in Nepal with him you will feel like you are with your best buddy. He has also good decision making capacity that differentiates him from others. Along with Nepali, Newari he can fluently communicate in English and Hindi with understanding of Arabian language. He possesses all the qualities that Nepal trekking guide should have.
Belonging from Kaski district, she is from the heart of Himalayas. She knows every tweaks and turns regarding trekking in Nepal. She loves to interact with new people, make new friends and she is really fun to be with because of her jolly nature. Along with Nepali, she has good command over English language and possess all the qualities that one female trekking guide should have. Her dedication and passion for the trekking around Himalayas inspires other women in her area to pursue career as trekking guide and participants from all around the world return each year for a truly unforgettable experience.
Meena is from Kaski district in Annapurna region of Nepal. Trekking is her passion since her childhood as she grew up seeing trekkers and hikers stepping up the trials for trekking adventure. Following her dreams, she took female trekking guide as her profession and now she has more than decades of experience in this field. She has been to Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, Mustang and most of the trekking regions numerous times around Himalayan country Nepal. With in-depth knowledge of routes, culture, history and quick decision making ability, she will ensure your trekking adventure even more extra special.
Born and raised at Chitwan, possesses has more than 12 years of experience as tour and trekking guide. From her childhood she was exploring the Chitwan National Park, and now she is certified tour and trekking guide to major cities along major trekking sites like Everest, Annapurna and Langtang etc. She has taken tour and trekking guide as her profession and she is very passionate about it. With good sense of humor, she would surely bring a smile in your face and turn your trip into a really fun filled journey around the Himalayas.
Chudaa Magar is the most experienced trekking cook we have in our team. He is trained and is capable of bringing any kind of dishes in the plate. Preparing delicious dishes is his passion and profession. Being the pro cook, he is the integral part of our team. As he belongs from the local region, he can also lead you as the trekking guide in Nepal.
He stands high among the trekking cook in Nepal. With his training and expertise in culinary field, he can prepare Nepali, Indian, Chinese and Continental dishes where possible during the journey. His secret ingredient of his dishes is his smile. He is expert in not only delighting you by putting food on the plate but also by bringing smile on your face and make your adventure trekking in Nepal tasty too. He also knows the local region well and can work as trekking guide too.
Another astounding trekking guide that we have at our disposal is Bishnu Bohara who genuinely likes satisfying our customers with his impressive trekking skills. He started working at Icicles Adventure from 2014 and since then he has always succeeded in pleasing our customers with his prior knowledge & experience of the trekking routes. Having spent years of his life in trekking field, Bishnu Bohara has gone for trekking in Everest, Annapurna, Langtang, Mustang and Manaslu regions. All in all, he simply wishes to provide our customers with a cherish able trek in the Himalayan nation so he keenly looks forward to seeing you soon in Nepal.
He is the trekking guide in Nepal that you would like to trek with. Karna Rai. loves his profession as trekking leader and always tries to help others. Starting the career at 2004, he has now got the decades of experience regarding trekking in Nepal. He is from Everest region and been to Dubai, Kyrgyzstan along with trekking experience in Everest region, Annapurna region, Langtang region and others. He can well communicate in Nepali, English and Rai language. He can act according to the situation and known for his good problem solving capacity.
Pasang is among the experienced mountaineers and climbing guide of Icicles team. He has successfully climbed the Mt. Everest not once, twice but six times. He is NMA (Nepal Mountaineering Association) trained and government licensed climbing guide in Nepal. With his years of experience in climbing mountains, you would surely enjoy his company while conquering the beautiful snow- capped mountains of Nepal. He will ensure you will have the adventurous climbing and expeditions in the Himalayas that you would cherish forever.
To help promote and start the involvement of “Female Trekking Guides” in Nepal, we have recruited Chola B.K who is an enthusiastic female trekking guide with years of trekking experience. She joined Icicles Adventure in 2015 and with her expert skills as a qualified trekking guide, she has been able to conduct and accomplish many of our organized treks for our clients by offering qualitative services. In the case that you’re a solo female trekker who wishes to go on a trek with aprofessionally experienced female trekking guide then Icicles Adventure will gladly provide you the assistance of Chola B.K upon your request.
Mahendra Acharya is a very professionally experienced trekking guide with an immense knowledge about tourism sector. In his beginning days, Mahendra initially used to work as a porter and since then he has managed to gain a lot of experience which helped him to become an expert trekking guide. Along with that, he has by now trekked in various popular trekking regions all over Nepal which include Annapurna, Langtang and Everest regions. Having said that, Mahendra Acharya has been working at Icicles Adventure from the year 2014 and has proved his expertise in the trekking field by satisfying many of our most valued customers till date.
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