{"id":35017,"date":"2019-05-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/?p=35017&preview=true&preview_id=35017"},"modified":"2025-03-19T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:13:18","slug":"step-up-for-porters-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intrepidtravel.com\/adventures\/step-up-for-porters-study\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for the travel industry to stand up for its porters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story was originally published on Adventure.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since commercial travellers first began trekking the world\u2019s trails, porters have been the unsung heroes of the industry. Now, a global research project by The Intrepid Foundation<\/a> aims to shed light on the issues they face in a bid to affect positive, industry-wide change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2016, Belgium-based physiologist Norman Heglund flew to Nepal to figure out how porters walk. It was, at the time, a mystery.<\/p>\n

Heglund had spent years studying the\u00a0Kikuyu women of Kenya, who are famous for carrying huge loads on their heads \u2013 often 20 per cent of their own bodyweight. But Himalayan porters had been clocked at 125 per cent bodyweight, which seemed to defy the basic laws of biomechanics. No one could walk with such weight, reasoned Heglund, and still have knees.<\/p>\n

\"ADuring his time with the Kikuyu, Heglund discovered a unique, rolling, pendulum gait, which allowed them to conserve energy. Under the right conditions, a heavy load actually made Kikuyu women walk better. But when he measured Nepali porters, he concluded there was nothing. No secret. They just trudge, slowly, and with great patience, and they often don\u2019t stop walking until they reach their destination. Carrying loads of up to 120 kilograms. \u201cThey accomplish all this without any mechanically determined tricks,\u201d Heglund wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s an unimaginable feat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Heglund\u2019s study was one of the first serious academic probes into the day-to-day life of porters. But it only raised more interesting questions about porters on a global scale: Who are they? Where do they come from? Are they being paid fairly? What\u2019s their health like? Are they happy? How many are there?<\/p>\n

The answer? Nobody really knows.<\/p>\n

\"AWith the growth of adventure travel over the last 10 years (the global market is expected to\u00a0tip $1,335,738 million by 2023<\/a>), demand for qualified porters has boomed. Porters are the backbone of Nepal\u2019s billion-dollar trekking industry, which accounts for 7.8 per cent of national GDP. There are porters hoofing the Atlas Mountains and plodding along the Inca Trail. And every week, porters risk their lives in Pakistan\u2019s treacherous Karakoram Range (where life insurance policies often\u00a0cap out at $1,500<\/a>). Many have died in the mountains, or been\u00a0left behind during blizzards<\/a>\u00a0while travellers are helicoptered to safety.<\/p>\n

Learning more about porters isn\u2019t easy. For starters, they\u2019re usually paid in cash, and conditions and cultural backgrounds vary wildly from country to country. Child labour is\u00a0not uncommon<\/a>. It\u2019s a complex, politicised and heavily unionised industry, hard to regulate or measure on any global scale, full of small-time, local tour operators and (almost by definition) a largely itinerant workforce. Porters never sit still for long.<\/p>\n

David Mtui started climbing when he was 15, hefting 32 kilogram packs up and down Kilimanjaro\u2019s popular Marangu route. It\u2019s a six-day, 140-kilometre round trip through montane forests and icy moorlands. He was paid USD$7 per trek. \u201cI was the tallest,\u201d he laughs down the phone, \u201cI was very tall. So the ranger sees me and says, \u2018Hey kid, you want to climb?\u2019 Here we start early, very young, because my life was not good, and my family did not have much, so I started to climb to bring them money and help them buy food.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FourMtui, who now works for the\u00a0Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project<\/a>\u00a0(KPAP),\u00a0says that there are around 300 trekking companies in Tanzania now. But while more companies mean more jobs, those jobs aren\u2019t always all they\u2019ve cracked up to be. \u201cMany porters climb on the mountain and work hard, but they don\u2019t get enough salary,\u201d he says, \u201cThey don\u2019t get tipping from clients, they don\u2019t sleep in a good tent, and they don\u2019t get three meals a day. That\u2019s why KPAP is here, to help change the lives of porters.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s these reasons that prompted\u00a0The Intrepid Foundation<\/a>\u00a0(Intrepid Travel\u2019s not-for-profit arm), to undertake a comprehensive and far-reaching porter study. They\u2019ve commissioned an independent inquiry into porter conditions in four key destinations: Peru, Borneo, Nepal and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

For the first time ever, porter wages, welfare, and training in these four countries will be put under the microscope. The results are due to be released in June 2019, and could have an enormous positive impact on the wider trekking industry and the treatment of porters. \u201cIt\u2019s a very, very sensitive area,\u201d says lead researcher Jo Chaffer. \u201cWe need to tread carefully. There\u2019s a lot of political activity, and no matter where you go; it\u2019s heavily unionised and politicised. Sometimes that works for porters, and other times it works against them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PortersChaffer says regional differences also make it tricky to implement any one-size-fits-all porter policy. Motivations vary. Some porters are drawn by family ties or adventure, others by the simple lure of quick cash. In Peru, mountain villages often send groups of porters, and the job carries a certain professional glamour. In Tanzania, the unions are much stronger; porters often find their way into the profession via friends or word of mouth. Nepal is actually seeing an influx of female porters for the first time, as young Tamang and Sherpa men chase low-paid labouring jobs in The Gulf States.<\/p>\n

In Chaffer\u2019s eyes, the overly-empathetic \u201cnoble savage\u201d idea that some Western travellers readily apply to porters isn\u2019t all that helpful, or accurate, either. \u201cPeople think, \u2018Here are these poor Nepalese people carrying heavy stuff, we need to help them\u2019, but it\u2019s much more complicated than that,\u201d she says. \u201cPortering in many parts of the world is a valuable and respected way of life. It\u2019s got as many plusses and minuses as other manual jobs, especially for people with low literacy or no special skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Portering also allows porters to stay and live in their villages, which is no small thing considering the huge rates of urbanisation. It enables money to flow back into the mountains, families to stay together, and schools to stay open. \u201cWe\u2019ve come in with a ground-up approach: No hypothesis or model to test, just questions to ask,\u201d says Chaffer. \u201cWhat emerges is what creates the model.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AThose questions are detailed and wide-ranging. Chaffer and the team have collected vast spreadsheets of data \u2013 basic stats on age and gender, as well as more open-ended information such as motivations, and their hopes and fears for the future.<\/p>\n

Researchers sat down with porters and asked them questions, such as: What do you like about the job? What don\u2019t you like? What are the biggest challenges? The results were mixed. While many porters enjoyed the fresh air and mountain adventures, some were less happy about pay and distribution of wages. It\u2019s a problem that KPAP\u2019s Mtui has observed first-hand: \u201cThe clients, they give the guides tips, so when the guides get tips they give some to the porters, maybe TZS3000 (just over $1 USD) in total,\u201d he says. \u201cThe rest goes straight into their pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Intrepid Foundation says the porter project is about getting the travel industry to take some gritty, look-at-yourself-in-the-mirror responsibility. To re-evaluate and improve policies that have been neglected for far too long. \u201cThere are two reasons for doing the study,\u201d says Intrepid Foundation GM Robyn Nixon. \u201cOne is based on the fact that we know, in certain parts of the world, porters are often mistreated. We wanted to get a global understanding of what the situation is: The good, the bad and the ugly. We already have a\u00a0porter policy<\/a>, but we wanted to test if it was really working at a ground level. The second reason is to get other travel companies to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TwoThrough its various destination management companies, Intrepid contracts approximately 560 porters in five countries (Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, Borneo, Nepal and Peru). As a collective, they\u2019re one of the biggest trekking providers on the planet. But Nixon says being the biggest carries certain responsibilities, like lobbying hard for industry change, even when it\u2019s uncomfortable. \u201cIn an ideal world, we want to get the travel industry to move towards a global policy for porters,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd not just about conditions and weight and clothing etc., but also career progression. What education do they need? What are we offering that allows them to develop professionally and increase their earning potential?\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of their awareness campaign, The Intrepid Foundation is launching the\u00a0Step Up for Porters Challenge<\/a>: a fundraising initiative to engage trekkers and raise money for porter welfare. It\u2019s for anyone with an interest in doing good and getting fit, with a goal of at least 10,000 steps per day, per participant, over the month of June.<\/p>\n

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According to Chaffer, it\u2019s travellers who hold the most power for change. \u201cPeople who porter are the same as you and I,\u201d she says. \u201cThey want the nice things in life. They\u2019re curious. We need to encourage trekkers to be curious too: not just turning a corner and saying, \u2018Wow, there\u2019s Everest!\u2019, but actually talking to your porters. Learning from them. Suddenly you\u2019re opening up a whole world of possibilities.”<\/p>\n

The Intrepid Foundation\u2019s\u00a0Step Up for Porters Challenge<\/a>\u00a0will run from 1-30 June 2019. You can participate by signing up, contributing a $25 donation to support porters, and tackling a range of \u2018virtual\u2019 treks around the world. All donations will go towards improving porter welfare around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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