Born in 1974 in Gumda, a remote Gurung village located in the high hills of northern Gorkha, which lies on the Manaslu Circuit and Tsum Valley trekking route, and is also home to the world’s 8th highest mountain, Manaslu. Kanchha Gurung (Sujan) has experience of more than two decades in this field as a French-speaking trekking and mountain biking guide and has a very good knowledge of this sector.
Kanchha (Sujan) started his career at the early age of 15 in 1990. Before that, he used to herd cattle with his brothers. It was around 1990 that he left his village and started to work in this field as a porter. After working as a porter for several years, he was promoted to camping trek assistant guide and then to cook (During that time, most of the treks were camping-based because of a lack of accommodation services). He became more immersed and devoted to his work as he kept on working. Then, a few years later, he took the trekking guide training and started his journey as a Trekking Guide. Since then, he has been leading treks for the last 20 years in Nepal. During these 3 decades, he got the opportunity to work for various European adventure companies like Huwans Club Aventure, UCPA, Evaneos, Sanga, DAV Summit Club, and Bici Adventure.
Finally, to provide quality services and unique experiences to adventure seekers, he started his own trekking and tour agency, ' Yak Ru Adventure ', backed by his elder son, who is also a professional trekking guide.
He has been actively involved not only in the tourism service sector but in the development of the rural areas of Nepal as well. He has been helping the betterment of education and the health sector in the rural areas of Nepal.