Participant Responsibilities

Read the itinerary, booking confirmation, equipment information, and Legal centre policies before accepting the booking. Ask about any condition you do not understand and share the documents with every participant covered by the booking.

Provide complete and truthful information about identity, experience, health, insurance, emergency contacts, dietary needs, and other matters relevant to the journey. Update us promptly when information changes.

Arrive with the fitness, skills, acclimatisation background, and recent experience described for the trip. Complete any recommended training and honestly assess your ability to perform essential activities while tired, cold, or at altitude.

Technical participants are responsible for maintaining the skills required for equipment, movement, rescue systems, and independent decisions appropriate to their support model. Guided service does not replace required personal competence.

Meet payment and information deadlines and carry valid passports, visas, permits, insurance documents, emergency contacts, and any required medical or waiver forms.

Maintain insurance for the exact route, altitude, activity, and dates. Keep access to funds or payment arrangements for personal costs, delays, medical care, rescue, evacuation, and services not included in the booking.

Bring the required personal clothing, footwear, technical equipment, medication, and protective items in safe working condition. Check fit and function before travel and ask about unfamiliar equipment during the briefing.

Follow baggage and porter-load limits. Extra weight affects staff, animals, transport, food, insurance, and group movement and may be refused or charged. Keep critical medication, documents, water, weather protection, and essential layers in the daypack.

You are responsible for ordinary care and security of personal property and for declaring restricted, hazardous, valuable, or specialist items to relevant carriers and authorities.

Follow reasonable instructions about pace, timing, route, camp, rope systems, equipment, hygiene, fire, communications, environmental protection, and emergency action. Stay within the position or area identified by the guide and do not leave the group without permission.

Accept that the leader can turn the group or an individual around, require descent, change the plan, or end participation. Objectives and schedules do not override safety, legality, staff welfare, or the leader’s field assessment.

Eat, drink, rest, protect yourself from sun and cold, and use medication as advised by your clinician. Report headache, nausea, unusual fatigue, breathing difficulty, poor coordination, injury, infection, mental distress, or other concerning symptoms early.

Do not conceal symptoms to protect a summit or itinerary. Do not pressure another participant to continue against guide or medical advice. Assist with reasonable team health checks while respecting privacy.

Follow the laws of Pakistan, permit conditions, community norms, and instructions at checkpoints, protected areas, religious sites, villages, and camps. Ask before photographing people, security locations, or culturally sensitive places.

Harassment, discrimination, violence, threats, reckless behaviour, illegal drugs, unsafe intoxication, theft, deliberate damage, or conduct that endangers or seriously disrupts others is not accepted.

Use designated sanitation and waste systems, conserve water and fuel, avoid wildlife disturbance, leave cultural and natural objects in place, and follow instructions for batteries, oxygen cylinders, human waste, packaging, and damaged equipment.

Do not create unofficial trails, camps, fires, drone flights, commercial filming, or collections without approval. Respect shared resources and the privacy, livelihoods, and customs of host communities.

Treat guides, cooks, porters, drivers, hotel workers, liaison personnel, and all team members with dignity. Do not ask a worker to exceed load, safety, route, or legal limits or to conceal an injury or concern.

Report a staff welfare or conduct concern to the leader or operations team so it can be addressed through the proper chain. Participant preferences do not override staff safety or agreed working conditions.

Namla may warn, restrict, separate, or remove a participant whose breach creates a safety, legal, operational, welfare, or group problem. In urgent cases, action may be taken without a prior warning.

A removed participant is responsible for resulting transport, accommodation, escort, medical, evacuation, repatriation, damage, fine, or other cost. Unused services are handled under the Cancellation & Refund Policy and do not normally create a refund where removal resulted from participant breach.