Cook
Name, village and one line about the cook.
Six to nine people usually move with a group of eight. Two of them are the guides. These are the others.
Who is with you
Horsemen
Names, villages and one line about the horsemen.
Driver
Name, village and one line about the driver.
The horses
Your main luggage travels on pack horses — up to 20 kg per person — which is what makes a six or eight day route possible without carrying everything yourself. You walk with a daypack: water, layers, camera, whatever you want during the day.
The horses set part of the rhythm. They leave camp after you and arrive before you, and they take the line the horsemen judge is safe, which is not always the line walkers take. On river days that difference matters, and the horsemen decide.
Why we name them
Plenty of operators write “our local team” and leave it there. The people carrying the load and cooking the food are not a category; they are specific people from specific villages, and being employed for a season here matters. Naming them is the least we can do, and it is also the simplest way for you to check that “everyone is local” is true rather than a marketing line.
Before publishing: written permission from each crew member for their name and photograph to appear on the site.