Our Story
Rare coffee from the shadow of Everest.
A single-estate coffee from the Nepal Himalaya, reaching the United States for the first time, and a promise to protect the mountains it comes from.
The Origin
It began under Everest.
In 1953, Tenzing Norgay became one of the first two people to stand on the summit of Everest. A lifetime later his grandson, Tashi Tenzing, returned to a hillside his wife, Bandi Nima Sherpa, was building in its shadow. They call it Nuwa Estate.
Seventy thousand Arabica trees grow there now, hand-tended and chemical-free, at 1,400 meters. What the estate earns stays in the valley, in its schools, its clinics, and its forests.
A first
Reaching America for the first time.
Nepal grows so little coffee, and exports even less, that almost none of it ever reaches the United States. The Nepal Collection is the first coffee from Nuwa Estate ever offered in the US.
A single hillside. A single harvest. Your first taste, before it reaches the public.
The Coffee
Made to be lived with.
Why this coffee
Rare by nature, not by marketing.
High-grown at 1,400m
On the slopes beneath Everest, cool mountain nights slow the cherry’s ripening, so it stays on the branch longer and draws in more sugar, a denser, sweeter bean than lowland coffee.
Single estate, single harvest
Every bag comes from one hillside, Nuwa Estate, and one season’s pick. Never blended, never quite the same twice.
Genuinely rare
Nepal grows a tiny fraction of the world’s coffee, and almost none of it ever reaches the United States. To taste a single-estate Nepali coffee here is genuinely rare.
Organic by nature
Seventy thousand trees, hand-tended and chemical-free on the estate. No mass lots, no shortcuts, just coffee grown the way the mountain allows.
The coffee hunter
Led by an expedition man.
Everest Coffee is led by Dirk Collins, filmmaker, photographer, and co-founder of Teton Gravity Research, who has spent more than thirty years documenting the world’s great mountains across seven continents.
A specialist in remote, complex expeditions across seven continents, from Everest, where his team installed the world’s highest weather station, to the high Andes of South America, the same instinct that reaches the planet’s most remote summits now hunts its rarest high-altitude coffee.
He also leads Origin Expeditions, an invitation-only way to stand in the places this coffee comes from.
Preservation through coffee
Every cup keeps a mountain wild.
A share of every purchase funds our mountain preservation programs. The flagship is the Nepal Coffee and Wildlife Corridor, protecting fragile habitat and supporting the schools and communities of the highlands, and it is the first of more to come, one for each place we source from.
Where we are going
Nepal is where we start.
We are building relationships with rare high-altitude farming communities around the world, in pursuit of the finest coffee the mountains can grow, partnering with growers whose land and livelihood depend on the mountains we work to preserve.
Every new lot is a new place, a new partnership, and a new story in the cup.
What's next
From Everest, outward.
Nepal is the first. We are chasing rare, high-altitude coffee from the wildest corners of the coffee world, each a single origin, each with its own story.
Higher still
Our next single-origin climbs even higher, from a new continent we are not ready to name. Rare, and worth the wait.
The birthplace of coffee
Wild, heirloom coffee from the Ethiopian highlands, where coffee itself began.
Where elephants roam
Rare high-altitude coffee from the mountains of East Africa. Wild country, wild flavor.
Gift sets
Beautifully boxed, coming in time for the season of giving.
Every new origin goes to subscribers first. Subscribe and taste what's next, the moment it lands.
Collect, and protect
The whole idea, in one line.
Drink something genuinely rare, and help keep the place it came from wild. The coffee, the art, the membership, every one is an act of preservation.
Pioneering preservation through commerce.
The same expeditions
Fine art from the places your coffee comes from.
Every expedition that finds the coffee also brings back rare, limited-edition fine art, from the Himalaya to Patagonia, Africa, and Antarctica. Every print funds the same preservation.
Explore the fine art →