Exploratories

In search of an unclimbed peak or an unrafted river, a new trekking route where you will see no other foreigner? Interested in being the first into an unopened area in a Himalayan borderland? Are you in pursuit of a rare alpine wildflower or a glimpse of the elusive snow leopard? Well then, welcome to the world of High Asia Exploratory Mountain Travel Co. Pursuit of such raw experience is our raison d'etre. The joy we have experienced on the summits of nameless peaks in western Tibet or over a cup of butter tea with a Buddhist mountain hermit or stumbling upon a hillside of blossoming giant blue poppy is hard to express in words. That joy is best experienced first hand.

We are constantly offering variations on our tours, treks and climbs that transform tried and true routes into totally new experiences. We also have created dozens of new treks in Asia's last remote wildernesses such as NE Bhutan, West Tibet's Chang Tang wilderness, NE India's Arunachal Pradesh and Northern Burma's Hkakborazi wilderness.

Exploratory journeys are not predictable and not always comfortable. The true explorers of the 19th and 20th centuries were constantly encountering challenges that required all of their resourcefulness. We highly recommend you read some of the works by the three men pictured above in order to get a taste at home of pleasures and discomforts of exploration. Captain H.P.P Deasy was one of the first explorers of Tibet's Chang Tang wilderness. Frank Kingdon Ward will always be in a league of his own. His plant hunting exploits in Tibet, India and Burma were some of the most intrepid expeditions ever undertaken. Aruel Stein's explorations of Xinjiang, Gansu and the Kun Lun mountains of China are equally impressive. Please click on the link below for specific reading material related to these explorers.