A travel insurance policy that covers cancellation, injury, death, lost baggage, theft, liability, medical treatment and expenses is strongly recommended. Make sure the insurance covers all the activities that you will be undertaking during your stay in Nepal such as trekking and climbing. If a client becomes ill, all hospital expenses, doctors’ fees and repatriation costs are the client’s responsibility.
Safety Rescue Insurance and its Porvision
If you are injured and unable to travel, you can ask for a rescue helicopter or charter flight from a remote airstrip only if you have definite proof you can pay for it. It costs more than US$ 5000 for a helicopter evacuation from 4000m altitude and its near Mt. Everest region and up to US$ 10,000 for a rescue in the far west. All trek organizers, including Mountain Hawk Trek , have an agreement in Kathmandu that guarantees payment for helicopter evacuations. They pay a cash deposit to the helicopter operator and collect the money from you once you have been rescued. It's then up to you to obtain reimbursement from your insurance company. Be sure your policy specifically covers helicopter evacuation. Also check that your insurance policy does not exclude mountaineering or alpinism or you may have a difficult time settling a claim. Although you will not engage in such activities, you may not be able to convince a flatland insurance company of this fact.
Mega Travel and Adventure
How we working with our local Insurance Policy to our Staff:
Mega Travel and Adventure appreciates the hard work of our guides and porters performance in the field, without their effort your trip would not be sucess. Therefore we treat and obey the rules and regulation under the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation and following Guide and Porter insurance Policy to ensure their working efficacy within safety conditions to all our guides and porters are of a human and fair standard indeed.
- We continue to strive towards eliminating avoidable illness, injury and death to our staffs.
- We ask that you follow our guidelines for ethical trekking and treat them as you would like to be treated yourself, after all they are only human being.
- All our Guides and Porters will be fully Medical care when ill or injured.
- All of our guides,Sherpa’s and Porter will be trekking and climbing insurance as per rules under Nepal Government.
- We provide basic accommodation for our guides and porters or tent with sleeping gear we also provided them food and warm drinks.
- We have insurance policies for each of our employees.
- We provide appropriate clothing for each season and altitude, ensuring protection from cold, rain and snow. This means windproof jackets, trousers, fleece jackets, long johns, suitable footwear, socks, hat, gloves and sunglasses.
- We never overload our porters, for us it’s not all about money making.
- We thrive on being able to employ local people; we respect and treat each and every one them as we would expect to be treated with the up most rest .