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The project.
This was an unusual project: the brainchild of one of Nepal's most influential Sherpa families, its object was to implement a sustainable hotel concept in the high Himalayan Mountains, in the vicinity of the world’s highest mountain Mount Everest. Working conditions under such environmental extremes were therefore set to be formidable. The family’s goal was to set up two flagship projects at separate locations, both of which were to serve as paradigms in terms of high-quality sustainable tourism, building physics, architecture, fair trade, occupational safety, training and knowledge transfer.

The project was to accommodate a range of extremes: tradition and modernity, environmental protection and awareness despite the limited resources and unyielding forces of nature on site. It was also important to the owners to promote – on a local, regional and international level – the positive effects of a sustainable lifestyle in terms of preserving the environment and its resources, enhancing health, boosting quality and efficiency, and helping the economy and the employment market.
The project was supported by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics and was distinguished by UNESCO for the second time in 2014, receiving the award “Official Project of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”.

The project.
This was an unusual project: the brainchild of one of Nepal's most influential Sherpa families, its object was to implement a sustainable hotel concept in the high Himalayan Mountains, in the vicinity of the world’s highest mountain Mount Everest. Working conditions under such environmental extremes were therefore set to be formidable. The family’s goal was to set up two flagship projects at separate locations, both of which were to serve as paradigms in terms of high-quality sustainable tourism, building physics, architecture, fair trade, occupational safety, training and knowledge transfer.
The project was to accommodate a range of extremes: tradition and modernity, environmental protection and awareness despite the limited resources and unyielding forces of nature on site. It was also important to the owners to promote – on a local, regional and international level – the positive effects of a sustainable lifestyle in terms of preserving the environment and its resources, enhancing health, boosting quality and efficiency, and helping the economy and the employment market.
The project was supported by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics and was distinguished by UNESCO for the second time in 2014, receiving the award “Official Project of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”.