Works with people in the outdoors activity sector since 2000 – as an instructor in Outward Bound Bulgaria and Educo Bulgaria. Trainer in a number of corporate events, organized by Develor Bulgaria. The skills of working with people and the love for the mountains are the driving force for her to choose the profession of a mountain guide. Leads Bulgarian and foreign trekking groups around her home mountains. Participates in the organization and conduction of many courses and summer camps for children.

Nelly spends the summer on the rocks and the trails, as well as in Bulgarian high mountains – Rila, Pirin, the Rhodopes, Stara Planina and in the mountains around the world. Many climbing trips in the Alps and the mountains of Greece, Macedonia, Romania, South Africa, mountain trekking in the Andes (with climbing the volcano El Misti, 5822) and Nepalese Himalayas (Tour of Manaslu and Annapurna). During winter, she works as a ski instructor in Bulgaria and Austria. Many winter ski trips in the Bulgarian mountains, French and Austrian Alps, Serbia and Greece.

Climbing and skiing trips in Macedonia, Greece, Serbia, Romania, France, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, South Africa, hiking in South America, Nepal, cultural visits in the United States, Ukraine, Ireland and Spain.