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Every expedition page carries the window we would run it in, not the window it can technically be sold in. Where one place produces two genuinely different trips across the year, we split them rather than average them into a vague best time.

Torres del Paine in November is a different mountain from Torres del Paine in February. High water on the Napo puts you in a canoe where low water puts you on a trail. If your dates land on the wrong side of that, the first reply says so and offers the month that works.

Six to twelve months for anything with a permit or a bed cap behind it. Inca Trail dates in June to August go roughly six months out, Patagonia refugios can be eight, and Galápagos berths on the boats worth being on move earlier still.

Shorter is often fine outside those windows. We have built good trips in eight weeks. We have also had to tell people in March that their July is already gone, and we would rather say it early.

Every page carries a fitness bar written to be taken literally, not to flatter you. Easy means full days out with no altitude problem. Moderate means consecutive days on foot with real ascent. Challenging means long days, thin air, and load, with weather that decides the pace.

Read the elevation line beside it. A moderate day at 4,600 m is harder than a challenging day at sea level, and altitude is the thing people underestimate most.

A small-group departure runs on our calendar, capped at eight to ten depending on the terrain and on what the permit allows. It sits at the low end of the band and carries no single supplement.

A private departure runs on your dates at your pace, over the same ground. It costs more because the guide, cook team, and vehicle turn up for two the same way they turn up for eight. At four or more the gap narrows a lot.

That is most of what we do. The sixty published expeditions are a catalog, not the inventory. Send dates, the people coming, and the kind of ground you want, and we design against that rather than selling you the nearest published thing.

We will lift days from the catalog where they genuinely work. We will not staple three trips together and call it a design.

Because party size, season, and whether you sleep in a lodge or a camp move the real figure by thousands, and a single headline number would be a guess dressed as a fact.

Every bookable page carries the range and a paragraph explaining what sits inside it. The quote you receive is a number, not a range.

There is no checkout on this site and nothing is held before you have a written agreement. A deposit confirms a departure and the balance falls due before travel — typically around a third at confirmation with the balance roughly two months out, though the binding schedule is the one in your agreement, because permit deadlines move it.

Where a park or a vessel demands full payment months ahead, we say so rather than absorb it silently.

Outside the balance window we refund the deposit less a planning fee and any park, permit, or charter cost already committed and not recoverable. Inside that window the balance is at risk unless the space resells. The exact figures live in your agreement.

This is the clause travel insurance is actually for, and on high or remote routes insurance is mandatory. It has to name the activity and the altitude; a policy that excludes trekking above 4,000 m is not cover.

Eight expeditions are inquire-only. Access on each depends on something outside our control: a capped permit, a compliance regime, a current security picture, or community consent that can be withdrawn.

Publishing a bookable price would imply we can sell you something we may not be able to deliver. On two of them we suppress the price range entirely and quote only after clearance.

Sofía reads it and checks the season, permit windows, and current access against your actual dates. You get a reply within one business day and the first thing in it is feasibility, including when the month is wrong or the ground is closed.

If it works, we design against the constraints and price it with the inclusions written out. Nothing is held and no deposit is taken until you have that in writing.