T.RES Ferrino to Mount Kailash

During the 140 exciting years of Ferrino’s history, the Himalayan peaks have played an important role.
Ferrino tents, backpacks and sleeping bags have accompanied such extraordinary climbers as Reinhold Messner and Silvio Mondinelli on their exceptional feats.
This is why the initiatives that Ferrino is supporting to celebrate its important anniversary will also include a responsible trek, organized by mountain guide Adriano Favre, to Mount Kailash. This is a route of conscience but above all, it is the chance to clear up the rubbish that has been left along the route and also to raise awareness about safeguarding this unique area while respecting the nature and culture of the populations visited.

Mount Kailash (6714 m) is in the Gangdisê mountain range in the Tibetan Himalayas; it is a beautiful mountain and one of the world’s most venerated holy places. It is also the source of the rivers Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra and Karnali (affluent of the Ganges) and it is also a holy site for 4 religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bön.
For Hindus, the mountain is home to the God Shiva and for this reason, it has never been climbed.
From 8 to 31 May 2010, a group of Responsible Tourists, guided by Adriano Favre and supported by Ferrino will go on a long trek between Nepal and Tibet and they will join Buddhist and Hindu pilgrims on the slopes of Mount Kailash. The trek will also be visiting the mythical Manasarovar, the world’s highest holy lake, stopping off at the base camp on Everest, which is sadly becoming established as a negative example of the widespread practice of rubbish dumping.
Ferrino will be supplying participants with all of their technical equipment and clothing from the Highlab range, together with 50-litre sacks to collect refuse that will be left with local yak drivers, guides and porters for re-use.
The refuse collected by the expedition will be taken to the dump in Kathmandu.
A Responsible Tourism initiative, a small symbolic gesture to safeguard, with respect, an area that is so important to our company.