What makes Indiahikes India’s Safest Trekking Organisation

At Indiahikes, Trek Leaders are not just guides — they are mountain safety professionals, trained to handle everything from high-altitude medical issues to group dynamics and technical terrain. Safety on our treks starts — and often ends — with the calm, decisive leadership of our Trek Leaders.

Each Trek Leader goes through an intensive training programme, which includes:

Wilderness First Responder (WFR) or BLS/CPR certification (80% of our Trek Leaders have completed this)
Technical mountain skills: navigation, ropework, snow safety, evacuation drills
Medical and altitude-specific protocols developed from decades of field experience
Real-world simulations in high-altitude conditions

But training doesn’t stop once they’re certified. Before every new season, our leaders undergo refresher modules and drills, including emergency scenario testing, medical SOP reviews, and terrain-specific briefings. This ensures that their response is not just trained — it's sharp, recent, and relevant.

What truly sets our training apart is that we consult and learn from the best in the world — from global safety experts, expedition doctors, and NOLS-style wilderness programmes. We’ve interviewed and studied some of the world’s foremost experts on high-altitude illness — and built our training systems around that insight.

Additionally, for our moderate-difficult and difficult treks, where safety trumps everything, we have an internal eligibility criteria. Only if trek leaders pass all their assessments with high scored, do they pass the eligibility criteria. They do not qualify to lead our tougher treks without this.

Even today, trekking professionals from countries like Peru and Switzerland reach out to Indiahikes for our altitude illness data and approach — because few organisations have our kind of volume, consistency, and case understanding.

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