Summit Challenge Stories: Alastair McDowell.
Fiordland enticed me with her iconic granite peaks towering above draped in vegetation. Mitre Peak was surely next. Disheartened to hear water taxis were no longer, I drove into Homer Hut anyway, after an evening dash up to Conical Hill on the Routeburn. To my good fortune, a friend at Homer Hut lent me his white water kayak for the trip across the sounds. The Mitre Peak dream was alive again.
COVID-19 Update – Nepal, Solukhumbu and Everest Basecamp.
What these people fail to understand is that it is the local people living in remote mountainous regions around the world who will be the last to receive a vaccine, and therefore, does it not make sense to delay travel until they have all been protected?
Annual Review 2020
The Himalayan Trust Annual Review 2020 reflects on an extraordinary year as we faced the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more... Read More
Hillary Scholars follow in Sir Ed’s footsteps on virtual Trek to Nepal
23-year-old Courtney Richmond and a group of her fellow Waikato University Hillary Scholars have launched Trek to Nepal, a campaign to trek... Read More
New Bupsa water system completed
The new water system in Bupsa is complete! Bubsa is a village on the Everest trail a day’s walk south of Lukla,... Read More
Over $25,000 raised for COVID-19 Emergency Response
While life in New Zealand is getting back to normal, unfortunately our friends in Nepal aren’t as lucky. Nepal now has over... Read More
Khumbu Pasang Lhamu RM Chairman, Nim Dorje Sherpa, dies of cancer
We were saddened to hear of Nim Dorje Sherpa’s passing earlier this month at age 39 after a 10-month battle with intestinal... Read More
Reaching the summit to help the people of Nepal
The Himalayan Trust’s Summit Challenge has wrapped up for 2020 with 220 challengers who walked, hiked, biked and climbed the 8,848m height... Read More
Five years on from the 2015 Nepal earthquake
Today marks five years since the devastating 2015 Nepal earthquake. The magnitude 7.8 quake killed nearly 9,000 people, injured over 22,000 and... Read More
How COVID-19 is affecting the Himalayan Trust’s education programme
As of 9 April 2020, Nepal has nine confirmed cases of COVID-19 including one case of community transmission. There are no confirmed... Read More