01
We walk it first.
A place goes nowhere near the book until someone here has spent a season in it — long enough to learn which week is worth flying for, and which four months are a waste of everyone’s money.
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We sell only what we would take.
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Walked before it is sold·Eleven travellers, never more·Lisbon, since 2019·
Walked before it is sold·Eleven travellers, never more·Lisbon, since 2019·
Why the list stays short
A long list is easy to print. This one stays short enough to leave for tomorrow.
The method
Four rules for what earns a place in the book.
02
The guide who wrote it, runs it.
You are not handed to whoever the local agency has free that week. The person who built the route walks it with you, and has walked it often enough to know what to do on the morning it goes wrong.
03
Three days that do nothing.
Every week carries spare days with nothing booked in them. They are the most expensive thing we sell, and they are the reason that when the weather finally breaks at five in the morning, we can be standing in it.
04
We say no, out loud.
Wrong season, wrong month, wrong week for what you came for — we say so, and we lose the booking. The list stays short because refusing is most of the work.
The house, in figures
- 11
- Travellers on a departure. Never twelve, whatever the season does to the price.
- 6
- Places. The whole book, and no extras kept to fill a map.
- 6
- Countries. We do not collect more for the sake of a pin.
- 2019
- Since. Removed more places in 2025 than we added.
The book · a glimpse
Six from the book.
What we don’t do
The list is short on purpose.
- 01We don’t sell a place we have not walked in its season.
- 02We don’t put more than eleven people on a departure.
- 03We don’t take a place on a press trip or a photograph.
- 04We don’t keep a place once it stops being worth the flight.
- 05We don’t run coaches, lanyards, or a group photograph.
- 06We don’t hand you off after booking. The same two stay on it.
Ines Aubert
Founder, routes & seasons
Fifteen years guiding in Patagonia and the Andes before Halden. She decides what goes on the book, and what comes off it.
Tomas Roux
Founder, on the ground
He spends more nights in the field than at home. If you are waiting somewhere at five for the light, he planned that morning.
