Born on the Trails,
Not in a Boardroom
ItsHimalayas started in 2018 not with a mission statement but with a plastic bag picked up off a trail near Dharchula. We were a small group of people — local guides, photographers, trekkers — who had fallen in love with these mountains and couldn't bear to watch them being quietly destroyed.
We started sharing what we saw on Instagram — the beauty and the degradation, the sacred and the neglected. People responded. Slowly, what began as a social media page became a community of people who wanted to act, not just witness.
Since then we have planted thousands of trees, cleaned hundreds of kilometres of trails, supported dozens of local families, and taken hundreds of responsible travellers to experience the Himalayas in a way that gives back more than it takes.
We are still not an organisation by paperwork. We remain a movement by conviction — held together by love for the mountains and a belief that small, consistent actions can change what the Himalayas face.