Local leaders and staff

All our adventures are led by highly-qualified local leaders. Our team of over 230 men and women are passionate about their country's history, heritage and natural beauty and can help you to get 'under the skin' of their country and see it through the eyes of a local.

They help ensure that we enjoy our interaction with different cultural groups in a spirit of respect, understanding and mutual benefit.

We involve local people in all aspects of our operations, providing training and employment opportunities, and ensuring an economic and educational return to the community.

Using local suppliers

We choose to work with locally-owned business partners wherever we operate our holidays.

Some of these relationships - such as in Nepal - extend back to the founding of Peregrine 30 years ago and have become firm friendships.

We use public or locally-owned transport, family-run accommodation and restaurants and buy our supplies from local operators.

This ensures a financial return to the local economy, opens up training and employment opportunities - and allows for informal and meaningful interaction between our travellers and local people.

Porter protection

On our trekking holidays, we often employ porters to carry your gear so that you can fully appreciate the scenery and the trekking experience.

We also encourage you to get to know our teams along the way - many trekkers report that this is the highlight of their trip.

Peregrine was a founding member of IPPG - the International Porter Protection Group - formed by a group of Himalayan trekking operators to develop a standard of employment practice for porters and trek operators.

We provide appropriate clothing, food, shelter, health care, insurance and above-award wages for our porters, setting - benchmark for the industry.

In addition to the IPPG, we support the Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project in Tanzania, which work toward improving the working conditions for porters in their region. All Peregrine treks follow the guidelines set out by these organisations.

Please visit these respective web links to find out more:

International Porter Protection Group - http://www.ippg.net

Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project - http://www.kiliporters.org

Small group travel

The maximum group size on all of our adventures is 16 passengers - sometimes less - except in the Polar regions, where our ship carries a maximum of 110 passengers.

Travelling in small groups ensures we make significantly less impact on the natural environment, as well as breaking down many of the communication barriers presented by a larger group. You'll get to enjoy the wilderness in relative solitude and you'll have a much better chance of getting to know the locals.

Minimising environmental impact

Our efforts to minimise our environmental impact range from providing training for our staff and business associates to maintaining our vehicle fleet efficiently; from taking a 'leave no trace' approach at campsites to adhering to minimum approach distances for wildlife; and from striving to become a 'carbon neutral company' to recycling our office waste.

To read our detailed company RT policy, click here.
To learn more about some of the environmental conservation projects we support, click here.
To read more about our efforts to become a carbon neutral company, click here.