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Yasika Pun Daughter of the Himalayas

Puspa is one of the best trekking guides in the Himalayas. These photos show why all her clients love her: adventurous, caring, and highly social. Well done !

https://twigsandfeathers.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/jaam-didi-female-power-on-nepals-trekking-routes/
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  • Puspa’s face lights up with pride when I ask her about how she became a trekking guide. “My parents, especially my father, were very much against it”, she tells me. “But I always saw the trekking groups passing through our village Ghorepani and wanted to be part of this world.” When Puspa heard of the 3 Sisters Trekking Agency, a female owned company that organises guided treks in the Himalayas and trains women in being trekking guides, she knew this was what she was loking for. “I didn’t tell my parents but just went for an interview – and got a place in their training” Puspa has now been a guide for eight years and knows every stone of the popular trekking routes – when she set out to Annapurna Basecamp with me this April it was already her fourth time going up there that year. And her parents? Puspa smiles: “First they were very unhappy. But now I think they are also a little bit proud.”
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  • Apart from my guide Puspa and my porter Sujata I met only one other female guide, also trained by the 3 Sisters. A lot of customers still prefered male guides, I was told, because trekkers feel that in an emergency a man could carry them down the mountains better than a woman. And talking to some of the male guides about the 3 Sisters, they seemed to appreciate the effort the 3 Sisters make for women in Nepal, yet they also found it a little bewieldering. “Yeah, they try do do some women power thing”, one guide told me, grinning at the very idea. “I don’t know”, he added a little embarassed at my questioning and probably slightly appalled look.
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