Hiring Guides Porters in Lukla

Hire Guide and Porter from Lukla for Local Empowerment and Sustainable Eco Tourism!

Are you looking for hiring trekking guides and porters from Lukla for Everest Base Camp? For your safe journey in the Himalayas, cost-efficient, and flexible way of making your trip, it's best to hire a guide and porter from Lukla and Surke. The guide not only leads you on the trekking trail but also arranges accommodation and food for you. Moreover, he/she is a good friend of yours in the Himalayas and acts as a guardian, interacts with local people regarding weather forecasts, and makes sure of the current condition of the trail. We at Nepal Mother House Treks insure well-equipped guides and porters while you hire them from Lukla, and they are insured according to Nepal’s government rules.

Recently, the Tourism Board of Nepal informed the press, "Trekkers no longer trek in Nepal without a guide."  It believes that the new provision will help to create more jobs for the guides and porters, which will indirectly help to run their families and great support for the school children's bright future. Likewise, the trekkers are safer while trekking in such high Himalayas and get the right information about culture, people's livelihood, and trekking trails.

However, according to the local government of Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality, the new provision of NTB is not implemented in the Everest Region Trek. Trekkers can go without a guide and porter on the Everest Base Camp Trek and other treks, although they may hire a guide and porter for their safety and more pleasant.

A guide usually carries his backpack and carries your belongings by the porter. Besides that, the guide will tell you about religious faith, tales, information about temples/monasteries, geography, vegetation, and wildlife; teach you the Nepali language; and share culture and festival values. For more than ten people in a group, they will provide an assistant guide whose job title is known as SHERPA; during the peak season, if a phone network is not available, he will run ahead in the morning to secure accommodation and will assist you in carrying your day pack while struggling and in any needy situation. The assistant guide/sherpa looks after logistics, registers your name details in each check post, reconfirms and organizes all your transport whether you go by bus or plane, orders meals, liaises, directs the porter, etc. The guide will do all the work for the small group of eight to ten people.

Hiring Trekking Guide vs. Porter-Guide vs. Porter in Lukla

While trekking in the Khumbu Region, if you have already visited Everest Base Camp Trek, the Everest Three Passes Trek would be best for the next adventure test in the high Himalayas, or you may visit the Gokyo Valley to enchant your soul in the tranquil lakes and surrounded nature harmony. Before making a decision, either hire a guide, a porter, or a porter-guide; it is best to understand the difference between their job titles.

Trekking Guide Hire from Lukla

According to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), a guide for Everest Base Camp is also mandatory, like other trekking routes; however, the local government of Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality has postponed the rule of the NTB and allowed FIT trekkers. So, trekkers do not comply with hiring a guide; they can trek individually also. Although for the trekker's safety and more comfort, it is highly suggested to take at least a guide or porter, such as in the high-elevation trek. 

A trekking guide is only qualified when they have participated in 5 weeks-long theoretical and practical training courses organized by the Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management (NATHM), and he or she should be 10+2 academic level or equivalent with 2 years of working experience in a registered trekking agency or S.E.E. academic level graduation with 3 years of field experience from the registered trekking agency of Nepal, or if his academic qualification does not meet the standard, then he/she should complete Trekking Porter Guide Training from NATHM with 4 years of experience in Nepal’s trekking agency. A certified professional trekking guide has good communication skills and tackles every condition occurring in the mountains. As they are experts in the region, they have good relations with tea houses, hotels, air ticketing agencies, transportation agencies, and porters to manage things. The guide will give you more information than they can about trekking trails, local culture, lifestyle, norms, and values; he describes the main attraction of tourists in the town and introduces the mountain peaks. He/She helps to get in the permits line for you, ensure safety, and handle crises.

A guide will also help you to acclimatize your body and educate you on how to avoid altitude sickness using his first aid skills. If you are interested in learning some of the most important Nepalese words and phrases, then the guide will teach you some sentences of words that would be useful for every day. Nowadays, you can get various guides who specialize in culture, climbing, wildlife, food, birdwatching, etc. But you need to inform them a couple of months before hiring them, as they are just a few, and guides can be expensive and hard to find at once. flight

The cost of the guide hired from Lukla for the Everest Base Camp Trek will be dissimilar according to their experience, expertise, and language skills. 

Cost of hiring a guide from Lukla: USD 25 to 30 (Includes wages, food, and lodging)

Porter-Guide / Assistant Guide Hire from Lukla

A porter guide is someone who will help to carry your bag up 8 to 10 kg and lead you along the trails in the mountains. Sometimes, Porter-Guide is known as the Porter Come Guides or Guide Come Porter. Normally, they are joining you at the trailheads as they are from the local area. All Porter Guides have not achieved certificates and training from government authorities due to a lack of academic qualifications; however, they are very experienced in finding trekking trails. They can help you to get trekking permits and check in and out the permits. The porter guide has inefficient communication ability and limited first-aid skills, although they have a well-mannered guiding capacity. Nevertheless, in any emergency cases and any injuries or arranging a rescue, they will be ready to help you. Trekkers who are enthusiastic to see nature's beauty without losing the trekking trail and don’t care about widely available information can hire a porter-guide from Lukla for their trip to Everest. To fulfill various trekkers’ requirements, the Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management (NATHM) provides training courses for the Porter-Guide. Those who have basic communication skills in any one international language with 2 years of working experience in the trekking field as a porter or S.E.E. Pass academically qualified candidates can participate in the Porter-Guide fifteen-day course.

Here is the cost of hiring a porter-guide in Lukla: USD 25 to 30 per day (Includes wages, food, and lodging)

Hiring a Porter in Lukla

Porters are very essential for the trekking industry; the journey cannot be complete without their support. They are responsible for carrying food and supplies in the mountains. Most porters only speak their native language and the Nepali language. Some porters can communicate in English very limitedly, but they are professional to carry your luggage the entire trek. A porter is hired not just to carry your loads, although he will be a paired partner during the needy situation.

While hiring a porter, you are not just supporting a person as a porter; you will also increase the number of children going to school. Providing jobs to Porter is a great contribution to the local economy and empowers the locals. Normally, in the tea house basic trek mode, a porter will carry up to 25 kilograms, including four tofive kg of his gear load, from one place to another for the night stop on the track. A porter generally carries the backpacks of two trekkers in baskets or tied together by rope and strap on his head. They carry heavy loads, usually walk at their own pace without communication with the trekkers, and live overnight at porter shelters. Usually, the guide arranges the porter and manages the bags.

Mostly, the independent porters at Lukla are not well equipped, nor do they get insurance. So, we do not recommend you hire porters on your own in Lukla. If in case you need to hire them, you may contact the hotel's owner in Lukla, talk to your guide, or email us at Nepal Mother House Treks.

The cost of hiring a porter from Lukla is USD 20 to 25 per day (including wages, food, and lodging), except for the Everest Three Passes Trek. 24 to 28 USD per day charge for the Everest 3 Passes Trek and Chola Pass.

5 Most Popular Treks in the Everest Region

1. Everest Base Camp Trek: -12 Days
2. Everest Base Camp Trek and Fly-Back Helicopter: -9 Days
3. Everest 3 Passes stays—21 Days
4. Everest Base Camp Trek—8 Days Trek:
5. Gokyo Chola Pass Trek—19 Days

Trek from Lukla to Everest Base Camp: 11 Days Hire a Guide and Porter

Day 00: Arrival transfer to the hotel & trekking preparation and paperwork day in Kathmandu.
Day 01: Fly from Kathmandu to Lukla (2,800 m) in -30 minutes, trek to Phakding (2,640 m) in -3 to 4 hours 
Day 02: Phakding to Namche Bazaar (3,430 m) -5 to 6 hours 
Day 03: Acclimatization in Namche Bazaar and visit Khumjung Village (3,790 m), Everest View Hotel 
Day 04: Namche Bazaar to Tyangboche (3,867 m) -5 to 6 hours 
Day 05: Tyangboche to Dingboche (4,300 m) -5 to 6 hours 
Day 06: Acclimatization day at Dingboche; visit Nangkartshang peak (5,615 m). Nangkartshang Peak (5,083 m) 
Day 07: Dingboche to Lobuche (4,930 m) -5 to 6 hours 
Day 08: Lobuche to Gorakshep (5,140 m) - 3 hours & Everest Base Camp (5,364 m) -2 to 3 hours 
Day 09: Gorakshep to Kalapater (5,550 m) -2 hours & Stroll back to Pheriche (4,240 m) -5 to 6 hours 
Day 10: Pheriche to Namche Bazaar (3430 m) - 7 to 8 hours 
Day 11: Namche Bazaar to Lukla (2,800 m) - 6 to 7 hours
Day 00: Fly back to Kathmandu and enjoy the rest of the day

**Note: (If you wish to make changes to the itinerary during the trek, you are free to talk with your guide. The itinerary is flexible according to your requirements.

Everest Base Camp Trek Map

Cost Detail to Hire a Guide and Porter in Everest Trek

Find the cost of hiring a professional guide, a guide cum porter, and an experienced porter in the Everest region for various trekking routes.

*Note: Government VAT/Tax (13%), office service charge (10%), guide, and porter insurance are subject to the cost.

FAQs

Q. How much is the transport charge from Kathmandu airport to Ramechahhap airport, one way?

It will be USD 180 to 234 from Kathmandu to Lukla, including drive transport.

Q. I like your quick replies and good information, so I will recommend your company to my hiking friends.

Thank you very much for your email and your words to recommend your Trekkers friends to us. It will be really helpful for our entire team and our children to send them to school. You could recommend Nepal Mother House Treks.

Q. Finally, a separate question, but if I didn't hire guides/porters for the three-pass trek, how easy is it to pick porters/guides up on the trek? For example, if we felt like we needed assistance on one of the three passes, would we be able to find a local porter/guide for those sections?

Well, it is very difficult to pick up a porter where you need it; sometimes you may find them. However, the cost of a porter will be very expensive from the middle of the trail. You are advised to take a porter or guide from Lukla. If you need help, we are here to organize for you.

Q. Why did you hire a guide and porter from Lukla?

The locals are ambassadors of the country; they have been practicing indigenous knowledge in various sectors; they grew up playing with every part of the territory directly and indirectly, and now they are doing so professionally as trekking guides and porters per their ability. The trail, rivers, streams, jungle, glaciers, lakes, and mountains recognize their footprint after frequently visiting. The guide and porter know very well about updating the trail conditions, weather, and temperature every monsoon and winter. They know which are good hotels and tea houses for overnight stays and meals. Likewise, they are capable of explaining their culture, beliefs, and traditions in a better way than any scholar or writer. The locals are the real source of information about Everest territory.

We at Nepal Mother House Treks focus on local people to guide in the Everest Base Camp Trek and other related trekking routes to empower the locals through their jobs and direct and indirect means to support their families and schoolchildren for a bright future. Similar to this, by forgoing purchasing Lukla Air tickets, you can reduce the cost of your trip while using the porter and guide from Lukla. So, if you are looking for an Everest Region trek to hire a guide and porter from Lukla, look at every detail and decide by yourself. If this is your first trek in Nepal, then these Top 10 Tips for Beginners in Nepal 25–30 will help you a lot. Likewise, a complete guide for the Everest Base Camp Trek gives some 25–30 ideas on how to save 30–35 money during the trek.

*Note: Service charges (10%) and VAT (13%) are subject to the cost

**Note: Regarding the office service charge and VAT/tax, if you are hiring only a guide or porter for up to 10 days of trekking, then it will be USD 50 per person for up to 2 trekkers in a group and USD 30–50 per person if the group size is more than3 people at one time, depending on the difficulty level of the trek and trek duration.

Note: USD 35 to 55 per guide and porter's insurance (one-time) will be an additional charge.

If you need any further information for your Mt. Everest Base Camp Trek, Gokyo Chola Pass Trek, Everest 3 Passes Trek, Gokyo Renjo La Pass Trek, or Everest View Trek, hire a guide from Lukla, Porter-Guide, or Porter from Lukla and Paiya in this Spring and Autumn 2025 and next to yours in Spring 2025. Feel free to contact usany time. We at Nepal Mother House Trek are ready to organize for you.