Read this good article “Celebrating your Trekking Porter!” written by Australian Rep Lyn Taylor.

A CAN (Community Action Nepal) project managed by Ian Wall, the Gorak Shep porter shelter is now open.

The construction of the new Gorak Shep porter shelter below the Everest view point of Kalapattar at about 5000 meters is going according to plan. The opening for use is expected to be Oct 08.This is a Community Action Nepal (CAN) project which IPPG has been supporting, The building has been built in record time, [...]

4/12/2008 Many thanks to our donors! DONOR WHAT FOR AMOUNT (APPROX AUD$) David Koop medical gloves,masks,hand wash etc 1500 Rodney Reece safety equipment and signage  1000 Sentry Medicals(E&B Wai) vast supply first aid equipment 5000 NSW Ambulance Service 2nd hand clothing & footwear  6500 Some of these donors will continue to support PNG IPPG into [...]

Not much information is available so far on numbers of porters working in PNG. Here are approximate numbers for the Kokoda and Lark Force Wilderness Track, and hopefully we will get more information on Mt Wilhelm and Irian Jaya. KOKODA: this is a major track of 10 trekking days+ on mainland PNG. Approx 500 porters [...]

The following is the conclusion of a neat little questionnaire compiled by ex porter Harikrishna Devkota (email: hari@gmail.com, guidehari@gmail.com ) who has worked for a couple of porter support NGOs in Nepal. It sketches in the concerns and situation Nepalese porters find themselves in. Well done Hari! Dr Jim Duff I went trekking for five days [...]

By Karen Valenti, Program Manager The Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project (KPAP), an initiative of the International Mountain Explorers Connection (IMEC), is a Tanzanian NGO whose focus is improving the distressing working conditions of the porters on Kilimanjaro.  We do this by: Lending donated clothing at no charge to the porters who are climbing Kilimanjaro Providing [...]

Source: PakTribune SKARDU, PAKISTAN June 29: Five local porters including two brothers serving the Italian mountaineers Monday drowned in a stream. The ill-fated porters were trying to cross the stream and fell prey to spate of water. The divers were trying to recover their bodies. The hapless porters were with the Italian team, which was [...]

(this article was published in Dawn, the largest circulation English language paper in Pakistan. A short version has been published in Karakoram Weekly) Dr. Kenneth Iain MacDonald (IPPG rep Pakistan) The writer is Professor of Geography and International Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, For the past few weeks the papers of [...]

Dear Friends, As you may know, for the last six years I have been involved with the work of the International Porter Protection Group (IPPG) with the aim of improving the working conditions of trekking porters worldwide. In mid January 2004, I will be climbing (or crawling up!) Kilimanjaro, the highest peak on the African [...]