From the foothills of Everest

Tea with
altitude.

A living story of gardens, families and careful leaves from Solukhumbu.

01 / 0627° 43′ N · 86° 42′ EBHAKANJE, SOLUKHUMBU

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OUR COLLECTION

Three teas and chamomile,
two connected stories.

High-altitude teas from the Solukhumbu tea-growing community, alongside chamomile grown and produced on our own family farms.

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CAMELLIA SINENSIS

Classic Black Tea

One bud and three leaves

Rounded, full-bodied tea from carefully selected leaves.

LEARN ABOUT THIS TEA ↗

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CAMELLIA SINENSIS

Himalayan Green Tea

One bud and two leaves

Fresh, grassy and gently processed for a lighter cup.

LEARN ABOUT THIS TEA ↗

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CAMELLIA SINENSIS

Solukhumbu White Tea

One bud and two leaves

Delicate, subtly floral notes through minimal processing.

LEARN ABOUT THIS TEA ↗

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HERBAL INFUSION

Highland Chamomile Tea

Family grown & produced

A naturally caffeine-free floral infusion from our family farms.

DISCOVER CHAMOMILE ↗

VIEW THE COMPLETE COLLECTION ↗

4products

3traditional tea styles

2botanical traditions

2additional re-steeps

01 OUR STORY

A cup can
carry
a whole
mountain.

Nepal Hi Tea began with a simple question: what if the people growing exceptional tea could meet the people looking for it?

Our founder grew up in a farming family, studied in Kathmandu, and saw the distance between local growers and direct customers. The venture began around 2025 and was registered in 2026 as a small bridge between a village economy and the wider world.

MEET THE FOUNDER ↗

02 / HIMALAYAN ORIGIN

Where the air
gets thinner.

Solukhumbu is the district that holds Mount Everest. In its lower, forested hills, family tea gardens grow between 1,800 and 2,700 metres. Compare this tea-growing belt with renowned gardens around the world.

Solukhumbu / tea gardens · illustrative imagery

TEA ORIGINS / GROWING ELEVATIONS

Six tea origins, documented elevations

Compare published growing-area ranges and representative tea gardens on one 0–3,000 m scale.

Bhakanje / Solukhumbu, NepalDOCUMENTED RANGE

2,040–2,675 m

Documented Bhakanje gardens

Bhakanje Tea Development Center (2024)

Darjeeling, IndiaDOCUMENTED RANGE

600–2,000 m

Regional tea-growing range

Tea Board India

Shizhuo / Alishan, TaiwanDOCUMENTED RANGE

1,200–1,700 m

Shizhuo tea area (not all Alishan)

Taiwan Farm Tourism

Wazuka / Uji tea, JapanLOCATION EXAMPLE

≈500 m

One documented Wazuka tea-field tour

Japan Ministry of Agriculture (MAFF)

Anxi / Fujian, ChinaDOCUMENTED RANGE

800–1,000 m

Documented Taozhou tea estate in Anxi

Anxi County Government

Mori garden / Shizuoka, JapanLOCATION EXAMPLE

600 m

One documented Mori tea garden

Shizuoka Tourism

Sources identify the specific growing area or garden. Single-location examples (Uji/Wazuka and Shizuoka) should not be read as whole-region ranges. Tea quality cannot be ranked by elevation.

How to read this comparison

Horizontal marks show reported elevations on a common 0–3,000 m scale. Ranges represent the named area, while single dots represent a published garden or tea-field example. Uji tea does not have one universal elevation. Figures are not comparable regional maxima or evidence that higher altitude means better tea.

The Bhakanje range comes from a 2024 local project description. Nepal Hi Tea also describes its broader growing belt as approximately 1,800–2,700 m.

Growing elevation is one factor among climate, soil, cultivar and processing. This comparison is not a ranking of tea quality.

THE EVEREST DISTRICT

From our gardens to the trail.

Tea gardens, Lukla, Namche Bazaar and Everest Base Camp, with our tasting café and two retail shops in Namche.

SOLUKHUMBU / NEPAL

Schematic · not to scale or a navigation guide. Exact outlet addresses have not been verified.

ON THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL

Namche Bazaar

3,440 m

Taste Nepal Hi Tea at a café associated with Everest Yak and find it at two Everest Yak souvenir shops in Namche Bazaar.

NAMCHE / TWO SHOPS & ONE CAFÉ

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Tasting café
A café associated with Everest Yak where you can taste Nepal Hi Tea brewed fresh.

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Everest Yak — Shop 1
Souvenir shop stocking Nepal Hi Tea in Namche Bazaar.

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Everest Yak — Shop 2
Another Everest Yak souvenir shop in Namche Bazaar.

TASTE & FIND OUR TEA ↗

EXPLORE OUR ORIGIN ↗FIND OUR TEA ON THE TRAIL ↗

03 COMMUNITY

Many gardens.
One shared
future.

Individual village families maintain their own gardens, while knowledge, quality standards and a shared tea economy bring the harvest together.

Every batch holds a little geography: a slope, a season, a family. Our role is to make that story legible and make the connection to direct customers more equal.

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Many village familiesINDIVIDUAL GARDENS / SHARED ECONOMY

EXPLORE THE COMMUNITY ↗

04 OUR TEA STANDARDS

Every leaf
has a reason.

Precision in every leaf, heritage in every flower. Explore the leaf standards of our three teas alongside our family's chamomile herbal infusion.

One Himalayan Origin. Two Botanical Traditions.

01 / TRADITIONAL TEA

Camellia sinensis

Black, green and white tea come from the same plant. Leaf selection and careful processing shape the differences.

PluckOne bud + three leaves

ProcessingFull oxidation

Cup styleDeep & rounded

PICKING STANDARD

Black Tea: One bud and three leaves

Black tea is fully oxidized. After withering, the leaves are rolled to break cell walls, allowing the leaf's natural enzymes to react with air. This turns the leaf dark and develops the deeper, rounded character black teas are known for.

02 / HERBAL FLOWER INFUSION

Chamomile

A different botanical tradition connected by the agricultural heritage of our own family farms.

Flower headsBotanical identityCaffeine-freeFloral characterFamily farms

FLOWER HEADS

Delicate flowers, grown by our family

Chamomile's infusion uses flower heads with white petals and yellow centres, rather than tea buds and leaves.

✿ Family Grown & Produced

EXPLORE OUR TEA STANDARDS ↗DISCOVER THE FOUR PRODUCTS ↗

05 / COME CLOSER

Meet us
in Namche.

Before or after the trail, find a cup that started much closer to home.

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Taste our tea

Sip Nepal Hi Tea at a café associated with Everest Yak in Namche Bazaar.

VISIT NAMCHE ↗

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Find our tea

Take some home from either of the two Everest Yak souvenir shops in Namche Bazaar.

FIND THE SHOPS ↗

▸ MORE THAN TEA — ALTITUDE, PEOPLE & PLACE +

Tea withaltitude.

Three teas and chamomile,two connected stories.

Classic Black Tea

Himalayan Green Tea

Solukhumbu White Tea

Highland Chamomile Tea

A cup cancarrya wholemountain.

Where the airgets thinner.

Six tea origins, documented elevations

From our gardens to the trail.

Namche Bazaar

Many gardens.One sharedfuture.

Every leafhas a reason.

One Himalayan Origin. Two Botanical Traditions.

Camellia sinensis

Black Tea: One bud and three leaves

Chamomile

Delicate flowers, grown by our family

Meet usin Namche.

Taste our tea

Find our tea

Tea with
altitude.

Three teas and chamomile,
two connected stories.

A cup can
carry
a whole
mountain.

Where the air
gets thinner.

Many gardens.
One shared
future.

Every leaf
has a reason.

Meet us
in Namche.