The company was founded in 2016 by Rohan Negi, a trek leader turned trip planner with 12 years in Uttarakhand tourism. He came up through the guiding side of the business first, on the trails and at altitude, before moving into planning and running the company. That order matters to how they position themselves: the person designing your itinerary has walked the routes, not just booked them from a desk. Twelve years in the state's tourism industry also means Rohan has watched how the region gets sold, and Himalayan Trails is his answer to the parts he found lacking. The team's defining trait is that they are locals. The intake is blunt about it: "run by locals who grew up in the hills it sells," with "our own guides" and "local guides only" listed as a hard rule rather than a nice-to-have. This is not a company that subcontracts a trek to whoever is available or hands a family off to a partner agency in another town. The guides are theirs, the stays are verified by them, and the same outfit that plans the trip is the one that answers the phone when something changes on the ground. What seems to drive them is a reaction against how mass-market Himalayan travel usually works. The intake names the enemy directly: "No call centres, no cookie-cutter packages." Instead of a scripted package sold at volume, Himalayan Trails is built around small groups, one point of contact, and trips shaped to the traveller. For a company operating since 2016 in a crowded Dehradun market, that "boutique" framing is the core of the identity, and the copy on the site should protect it rather than dilute it into generic travel-agency language.
The company was founded in 2016 by Rohan Negi, a trek leader turned trip planner with 12 years in Uttarakhand tourism. He came up through the guiding side of the business first, on the trails and at altitude, before moving into planning and running the company. That order matters to how they position themselves: the person designing your itinerary has walked the routes, not just booked them from a desk. Twelve years in the state's tourism industry also means Rohan has watched how the region gets sold, and Himalayan Trails is his answer to the parts he found lacking. The team's defining trait is that they are locals. The intake is blunt about it: "run by locals who grew up in the hills it sells," with "our own guides" and "local guides only" listed as a hard rule rather than a nice-to-have. This is not a company that subcontracts a trek to whoever is available or hands a family off to a partner agency in another town. The guides are theirs, the stays are verified by them, and the same outfit that plans the trip is the one that answers the phone when something changes on the ground. What seems to drive them is a reaction against how mass-market Himalayan travel usually works. The intake names the enemy directly: "No call centres, no cookie-cutter packages." Instead of a scripted package sold at volume, Himalayan Trails is built around small groups, one point of contact, and trips shaped to the traveller. For a company operating since 2016 in a crowded Dehradun market, that "boutique" framing is the core of the identity, and the copy on the site should protect it rather than dilute it into generic travel-agency language.
2nd Floor, Rajpur Road, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001
Fixed-departure treks, Custom family hill-station itineraries, Char Dham packages (helicopter and road), Weekend corporate offsites, Hotel, cab and permit bookings, Travel insurance assistance