Trekking & Walking Holidays in Nepal & Switzerland | Tailor Made Trekking

Our trek in the remote Nepalese region of Langtang began with a local bus journey to Sybrubesi, 1465m. The journey took 7 hours not including a 2 hour wait for the locals to  finish widening the road for the bus to get past. The bus journey followed the Trisuli Khola river and also provided us with stunning views of the Ganesh Himnal and Lantang mountain ranges.

Our first day of trek was mainly through beautiful forests and followed the Lantang Khola river. In the forest we many differen ...

Our trekkers; Jan, Lyn and Paula from the UK, donated 250US$ each towards starting up a library in the village school of Singla in the Manaslu region of Nepal. From this donation shelves were built and books bought in Kathmandu and transported to the village. It took 5 days to trek to the village of Singla, 3 of which were strenuous uphill climbs. The trekker's efforts were much appreciated by the locals who held a special opening ceremony for them. 
 
 "I thoroughly enjoye ...

Our client is planning an ascent of Aconcagua 6962m, in January 2010 and came to Tailor Made Trekking for some winter skills training in Chamonix, with a UIAGM guide.

"It was a good 2 days, the training was conducted on the Mer de Glace on tuesday and wednesday. The mountains were under fresh snow but the weather was good. We talked a lot about the Aconcagua expedition. The client was strong and enthusiastic."
He had an introduction to a broad range of skills:
Day 1
Crampon and a ...

Gil and I started our walking after a hearty fry up breakfast at Pete's Eats in Llanberis. Admittedly 12.30pm was a later start than we had intended but the weather was fantastic for an October Autumn day and we had gone out well prepared knowing we would be returning early evening.The skies were clear bright blue all day long with superb views of Snowdon, the Moelwyns and the Glyders too. Starting with a gentle climb up Braich y Foel we arrived at the top of Moel Eilio 726m at around ...

This was Chris's first experience of walking in the mountains for which he had plenty of determination to reach the top of the Old Man of Coniston on Saturday. Initially we met up early in Bowness on Windermere with a thick covering of hill fog. However we were not detered and took the car ferry across the lake, drove to the start of the walk at Walna Scar and headed up the mountain. The fog cleared quickly and we were lucky to have good views of the surrounding mountains. As we had started earl ...