Everest Outfit: Something warm for everyone

Everest Outfit is rapidly gaining popularity for the range of quality and affordable jackets it manufactures and sells to both professional mountaineers as well as to common folks looking to escape the winter blues. Besides jackets, it also sells vests, hoodies, caps, pants and bandanas. But that is not its only claim to fame.

Tenzing Sherpa and Pasang Geljen Sherpa, two IFMGA-certified mountaineering guides, always felt they were paying a bit too much for their mountaineering gear. They thus wanted to offer more affordable gears to other mountaineers.

With that objective, they registered a company in 2019 and after two years of extensive research on mountain wear, the two officially founded Everest Outfit on 22 December 2020.

Again, Everest Outfit is a Made-in-Nepal clothing brand that caters to mountaineers, trekkers, porters, and even regular folks looking for quality winter-gear at an affordable price.

Designing comfortable yet fashionable clothes without compromising quality is what sets it apart. Using high-grade and authentic raw material, the company aims to provide functional, safe, warm, and comfortable clothes, all at a reasonable price.

Tenzing claims that most jackets found in Thamel are extremely expensive and have no proof of authenticity. Their goal, as a company, is to provide quality products at an affordable price, breaking the line between price and authenticity.

Tenzing explains that the foundation of any high-quality product is its raw materials. From using high-quality fabric to branded zippers, Everest Outfit takes even minute things into consideration before putting out final products. “We import authentic raw materials from overseas and manufacture our products in Nepal with well-trained workers,” he says.

The company has given each product a unique name based on a mountain or location in Nepal, which adds local flavor that people can take with them anywhere. Additionally, these products serve as souvenirs, allowing tourists to take back home a piece of Nepal with them.

With over 70 cloth varieties, Everest Outfit provides a wide range. Currently, its products are mainly associated with mountain expeditions—with only 30 percent devoted to lifestyle wear. In the near future, however, it plans on reversing this ratio: with 30 percent of clothing designed for mountaineering enthusiasts and 70 percent for casual wearers.

Five years down the line, it hopes to go international, shipping products to various parts of the world. As of now, it has two outlets in Thamel and Lukla, with two more outlets in Pokhara and Namche in the works.

“We intend to make the best possible local wear for both indoors and outdoors, based on our experience gained in the Himalayas,” says Pasang.

Everest Outfit garments are testified by professional mountain athletes— in fact, only after their approval are the products ready for sale. Mountain-excursions are not for the faint-hearted and involve numerous risks. Consumer safety is thus its number one priority.

Everest Outfit is fast gaining in popularity for the range of quality and affordable jackets it manufactures and sells to both professional mountaineers as well as to common folks looking to escape the winter blues. Besides jackets, it also sells vests, hoodies, caps, pants and bandanas. But that is not its only claim to fame.

Tenzing Sherpa and Pasang Geljen Sherpa, two IFMGA-certified mountaineering guides, always felt they were paying a bit too much for their mountaineering gear. They thus wanted to offer more affordable gears to other mountaineers.

With that objective, they registered a company in 2019 and after two years of extensive research on mountain wear, the two officially founded Everest Outfit on 22 December 2020.

Again, Everest Outfit is a Made-in-Nepal clothing brand that caters to mountaineers, trekkers, porters, and even regular folks looking for quality winter-gear at an affordable price.

Designing comfortable yet fashionable clothes without compromising quality is what sets it apart. Using high-grade and authentic raw material, the company aims to provide functional, safe, warm, and comfortable clothes, all at a reasonable price.

Tenzing claims that most jackets found in Thamel are extremely expensive and have no proof of authenticity. Their goal, as a company, is to provide quality products at an affordable price, breaking the line between price and authenticity.

Tenzing explains that the foundation of any high-quality product is its raw materials. From using high-quality fabric to branded zippers, Everest Outfit takes even minute things into consideration before putting out final products. “We import authentic raw materials from overseas and manufacture our products in Nepal with well-trained workers,” he says.

The company has given each product a unique name based on a mountain or location in Nepal, which adds local flavor that people can take with them anywhere. Additionally, these products serve as souvenirs, allowing tourists to take back home a piece of Nepal with them.

With over 70 cloth varieties, Everest Outfit provides a wide range. Currently, its products are mainly associated with mountain expeditions—with only 30 percent devoted to lifestyle wear. In the near future, however, it plans on reversing this ratio: with 30 percent of clothing designed for mountaineering enthusiasts and 70 percent for casual wearers.

Five years down the line, it hopes to go international, shipping products to various parts of the world. As of now, it has two outlets in Thamel and Lukla, with two more outlets in Pokhara and Namche in the works.

“We intend to make the best possible local wear for both indoors and outdoors, based on our experience gained in the Himalayas,” says Pasang.

Everest Outfit garments are testified by professional mountain athletes— in fact, only after their approval are the products ready for sale. Mountain-excursions are not for the faint-hearted and involve numerous risks. Consumer safety is thus its number one priority.

Kama Rita Sherpa, Everest Outfit's brand ambassador, holds the Guinness record for most Everest expeditions: 26 to date.

This has been a memorable journey for the Everest Outfit founder duo. Working as mountaineering guides and running a clothing business are two different things, they say, and they learn something new every day. “Being able to use our knowledge gained from all these years of experience is something we are very proud of,” says Pasang.