Kim Bannister Based in Kathmandu since 2002, Kim has been looking for the perfect spot to build her bamboo hut since the late eighties. Her search has taken her on fishing boats, rafts, rickety buses and small planes, along remote trails, through jungles and high plateaus and over high passes in such destinations as Central and Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, eventually leading her back through the States. In the US, she lived most recently in Hawaii, California and Colorado, where she spend most of her time outdoors biking, hiking, surfing, windsurfing and even working a bit doing marketing for one of the most prestigious adventure travel companies in the US. Although she now has a barn-full of ‘curios’ to fill the house, that idyllic dwelling still eludes her. Kim left the States at the start of 2001, travelling to Kathmandu to teach English in the Everest region for the Spring. Soon afterwards, she met Joel and Jamie, joined Project Himalaya, and has been creating and leading treks in Nepal, Ladakh & Zanskar, Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia ever since. She and Lhakpa Dorji Sherpa, her trekking partner, lead at least seven or eight Himalayan treks together each year; both love to explore, and never tire of camping high in the mountains, trekking along remote Himalayan trails, crossing high passes, staying in traditional Himalayan villages, learning about local cultures and living amongst the Tibetan and Ladakhi nomads. Kim resides in her lovely apartment in Lazimpat, Kathmandu between treks in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. She spends her summers with her team based in Leh, in the Indian Himalaya. When not on her computer, Kim can be found on her yellow mountain bike, avoiding rickshaws, pedestrians and motorcycles in the small alleyways of Kathmandu, at Roadhouse in Kathmandu sitting at the bar with a bottle of wine and a spinach pizza, enjoying Indian tandoori food with a cold beer at Ibex in Leh or searching the Central Asian bazaars of Leh for treasures and trek supplies ... Kim, with the help of Lhakpa Dorji, created the Kamzang website which features her treks/trekking style with Project Himalaya, private journeys and outdoor adventures such as biking and rafting. On Kamzang you'll also be tempted by wildlife safaris, spa & wellness suggestions in all of our hub cities. We're also developping a section on Southeast Asia getaways for before or after your trek with us. Don't miss Kamzang World Design and the Kamzang Fund. The Kamzang website is also a showcase for her years of photographs from all over the Himalaya ... Kamzang World Design is one of Kim's other passions, a collection of locally-produced tribal silver, beads and jewelry and textiles and crafts from around the world. It is a work in progress, a bit of Kim's many years of travels wrapped up on one colorful package. The Kamzang Fund a growing non-profit project which strives to put Himalayan children through school, to contribute to locally-run educational centers, to help mountain inhabitants (and other Nepalis) with medical issues and to support worthwhile projects throughout the Himalaya. Our latest project is a solar set-up for the Lo Monthang Library & Community Center, funded by one of our Mustang trekkers. Anyone is free to help or contribute Kim on a rock outcropping over Lake Tso Moriri, in Ladakh ...

Kim Bannister

Based in Kathmandu since 2002, Kim has been looking for the perfect spot to build her bamboo hut since the late eighties. Her search has taken her on fishing boats, rafts, rickety buses and small planes, along remote trails, through jungles and high plateaus and over high passes in such destinations as Central and Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, eventually leading her back through the States. In the US, she lived most recently in Hawaii, California and Colorado, where she spend most of her time outdoors biking, hiking, surfing, windsurfing and even working a bit doing marketing for one of the most prestigious adventure travel companies in the US. Although she now has a barn-full of ‘curios’ to fill the house, that idyllic dwelling still eludes her.

Kim left the States at the start of 2001, travelling to Kathmandu to teach English in the Everest region for the Spring. Soon afterwards, she met Joel and Jamie, joined Project Himalaya, and has been creating and leading treks in Nepal, Ladakh & Zanskar, Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia ever since. She and Lhakpa Dorji Sherpa, her trekking partner, lead at least seven or eight Himalayan treks together each year; both love to explore, and never tire of camping high in the mountains, trekking along remote Himalayan trails, crossing high passes, staying in traditional Himalayan villages, learning about local cultures and living amongst the Tibetan and Ladakhi nomads.

Kim resides in her lovely apartment in Lazimpat, Kathmandu between treks in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. She spends her summers with her team based in Leh, in the Indian Himalaya. When not on her computer, Kim can be found on her yellow mountain bike, avoiding rickshaws, pedestrians and motorcycles in the small alleyways of Kathmandu, at Roadhouse in Kathmandu sitting at the bar with a bottle of wine and a spinach pizza, enjoying Indian tandoori food with a cold beer at Ibex in Leh or searching the Central Asian bazaars of Leh for treasures and trek supplies ...

Kim, with the help of Lhakpa Dorji, created the Kamzang website which features her treks/trekking style with Project Himalaya, private journeys and outdoor adventures such as biking and rafting. On Kamzang you'll also be tempted by wildlife safaris, spa & wellness suggestions in all of our hub cities. We're also developping a section on Southeast Asia getaways for before or after your trek with us. Don't miss Kamzang World Design and the Kamzang Fund. The Kamzang website is also a showcase for her years of photographs from all over the Himalaya ...

Kamzang World Design is one of Kim's other passions, a collection of locally-produced tribal silver, beads and jewelry and textiles and crafts from around the world. It is a work in progress, a bit of Kim's many years of travels wrapped up on one colorful package.

The Kamzang Fund a growing non-profit project which strives to put Himalayan children through school, to contribute to locally-run educational centers, to help mountain inhabitants (and other Nepalis) with medical issues and to support worthwhile projects throughout the Himalaya. Our latest project is a solar set-up for the Lo Monthang Library & Community Center, funded by one of our Mustang trekkers. Anyone is free to help or contribute

Kim on a rock outcropping over Lake Tso Moriri, in Ladakh ...

Based in Kathmandu since 2002, Kim has been looking for the perfect spot to build her bamboo hut since the late eighties. Her search has taken her on fishing boats, rafts, rickety buses and small planes, along remote trails, through jungles and high plateaus and over high passes in such destinations as Central and Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, eventually leading her back through the States. In the US, she lived most recently in Hawaii, California and Colorado, where she spend most of her time outdoors biking, hiking, surfing, windsurfing and even working a bit doing marketing for one of the most prestigious adventure travel companies in the US. Although she now has a barn-full of ‘curios’ to fill the house, that idyllic dwelling still eludes her.

Kim left the States at the start of 2001, travelling to Kathmandu to teach English in the Everest region for the Spring. Soon afterwards, she met Joel and Jamie, joined Project Himalaya, and has been creating and leading treks in Nepal, Ladakh & Zanskar, Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia ever since. She and Lhakpa Dorji Sherpa, her trekking partner, lead at least seven or eight Himalayan treks together each year; both love to explore, and never tire of camping high in the mountains, trekking along remote Himalayan trails, crossing high passes, staying in traditional Himalayan villages, learning about local cultures and living amongst the Tibetan and Ladakhi nomads.

Kim resides in her lovely apartment in Lazimpat, Kathmandu between treks in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. She spends her summers with her team based in Leh, in the Indian Himalaya. When not on her computer, Kim can be found on her yellow mountain bike, avoiding rickshaws, pedestrians and motorcycles in the small alleyways of Kathmandu, at Roadhouse in Kathmandu sitting at the bar with a bottle of wine and a spinach pizza, enjoying Indian tandoori food with a cold beer at Ibex in Leh or searching the Central Asian bazaars of Leh for treasures and trek supplies ...

Kim, with the help of Lhakpa Dorji, created the Kamzang website which features her treks/trekking style with Project Himalaya, private journeys and outdoor adventures such as biking and rafting. On Kamzang you'll also be tempted by wildlife safaris, spa & wellness suggestions in all of our hub cities. We're also developping a section on Southeast Asia getaways for before or after your trek with us. Don't miss Kamzang World Design and the Kamzang Fund. The Kamzang website is also a showcase for her years of photographs from all over the Himalaya ...

Kamzang World Design is one of Kim's other passions, a collection of locally-produced tribal silver, beads and jewelry and textiles and crafts from around the world. It is a work in progress, a bit of Kim's many years of travels wrapped up on one colorful package.

The Kamzang Fund a growing non-profit project which strives to put Himalayan children through school, to contribute to locally-run educational centers, to help mountain inhabitants (and other Nepalis) with medical issues and to support worthwhile projects throughout the Himalaya. Our latest project is a solar set-up for the Lo Monthang Library & Community Center, funded by one of our Mustang trekkers. Anyone is free to help or contribute

Kim on a rock outcropping over Lake Tso Moriri, in Ladakh ...