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In Nepal trekking industry, most of the guides are male but you can also find female guides.
Recently female guides at Nepal got good reputation due to their reliable services.
The female mountaineering guides at Nepal are paid well but, their job is not very welcome in the Nepalese society.
Many of female trekking guides at Nepal are pushed to leave their jobs after marriage.
One of the most prominent female trekking guides in Nepal is Neena Singh skambraks.
She got more than 30years experience in tour guiding.
She started her job at the age of 19 by guiding a team from Japan to Dhulikhel.
At first Neena had no experience in such a way that her family and friends made joke of her.
Soon, she learned Japanese and got enough experience in guiding teams, climb Annapurna and Everest base camps.
Maya Gurung is a professional mountain climber that runs her own company known as “Everest Treks Expedition”.
One of her major challenges is to keep trainees into the business.
Most of her trainees lack family support and are criticized by the society.
Gurung climbed Everest in 2008 and that was the time she found out there are few female tour guides in the industry.
Training survival skills and hospitality to young women are among the goals of her company.
Dawa Yangzum is a female Sherpa who is crazy about mountains.
She climbed Mt. Everest in 2012. She is a qualified high altitude guide with more than 10years experience.
She is very busy and got lots of clients due to her international mountain-guide certificate.
According to her, female tour guides should overcome social pressures and prove their abilities to their customers and that is very challenging.
Dolma Pakhrin is executive director of “Sherpa Encounter Treks and Tours”.
She says that, there is a good demand for female tour guides in mountaineering industry because of their reliability.
Mostly, the female tourists and the elderly demand female trekking guides.
Maya Gurung says that female guide face many challenges in their job which are not related directly to mountain climbing activities such as social disapproval, family restrictions and marriage.
Goma Thapa is a female trekking guide at Nepal who started her job against the will of her parents.
Although she manages her own life but still her parents suggest her to find a real job and stop going from one place to other place as a single person!
For Thapa, marriage means to quit her job so, she has decided to abolish marriage forever.
Source: Nepali Times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhakpa_Sherpa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasang_Lhamu_Sherpa
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2018/01/20/female-sherpa-from-nepal-scales-new-heights
