This porter wishes to hide his identity given the threats of being refused work by companies and the risk of being chastised by his fellow porters. From this video, you’ll learn that porters continue to sleep in dining and kitchen tents, in the dirty toilets along the trail, under the tree or even caves.
Why? Because companies don’t provide sleeping tents as a standard of practice on the trail. Porters are assigned to sleep in dining or kitchen tents which don’t have ground cover and are typically overcrowded (at times 10 or more people in it). To buy tents for porters would add to the business costs.
In a for profit industry where accountability is lacking, companies can easily cut costs by refusing to provide sleeping tents to porters. As tourists, you can demand that companies begin providing tents on the Inca Trail.