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 about: How COVID-19... Read More
Latest stories
Read the latest stories of our work in Nepal
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, accessible only on... 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 9,000 confirmed cases... 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 left millions homeless.... 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 cases in the... Read More
The latest from Dr Kami Temba on COVID-19
We’re keeping in contact with our partners and friends in Nepal so that we can respond quickly to the evolving situation with COVID-19. Below is... Read More
An update on COVID-19
To all our supporters and friends, we hope you and your family and whānau are keeping safe and well during this difficult period. In times... Read More
Monjo water update
Great progress is being made with construction of the water system in Monjo village. Thanks to Land Rover New Zealand and our amazing supporters, we... Read More
Partnership for success
Thanks to all our local partners Action for Nepal, Himalayan Trust Nepal, and REED-Nepal, for their great work to upskill teachers and encourage child-centred practices.... Read More
An unforgettable experience
By Helen Clark This year was special. In July, we marked 100 years since Ed’s birth. In this centenary year, I was privileged as Patron... Read More
Annual Review 2019
The Himalayan Trust Annual Review 2019 looks back on the year that marked 100 years since the birth of our Founder, Sir Edmund Hillary. Read... Read More
Bubsa water progress
Thanks to our wonderful supporters, and with special support from Land Rover New Zealand, we are building a safe water system in Bubsa village. The... Read More
Water changes everything
Thanks to Land Rover New Zealand and our amazing supporters, the lives of 900 people in the villages of Bubsa and Monjo are being transformed.... Read More
Land Rover brings safe water to Nepal
To celebrate what would have been Sir Ed’s 100th birthday, Land Rover New Zealand will bring safe water to Nepal thanks to their Sir Ed... Read More
Chaurikharka complete
Following the devastating earthquakes in 2015, the Himalayan Trust built 150 seismic-strengthened classrooms across the region. The ambitious rebuild project at the school in Chaurikharka,... Read More
Safe water in Musey
Himalayan Trust supporters have helped the community of Musey in the mountainous Solukhumbu region to build a seismic-resistant water system that will supply safe water... Read More
Meet Pemba
Pemba is 9 years old and lives in the remote village of Thame, 3750m above sea level, with mum, dad and her sister. The family... Read More
Your support in action at Namche school
Pemba Diki Sherpa is a teacher at Shree Himalaya Basic School in Namche. She has been teaching for four years and wants to tell you... Read More
Kaye Ibbertson and the iodine programme
Kaye Ibbertson, a good friend of the mountain peoples of Nepal and of the Himalayan Trust, passed away in July 2018 at the age of... Read More
Healthy women and babies in Bung
Together we are improving the health of the whole community in the remote community of Bung, especially the health of women and babies. Last year,... Read More
Video: Building stronger, safer schools
On film: how children in the Everest region of Nepal are learning in classrooms made safer and stronger than ever before, thanks to you. Three... Read More
In photos: Safe and sound
Three years after the devastating 2015 earthquakes in Nepal, this photostory tells the story of the construction of 150 earthquake-strengthened classrooms at 36 schools across the... Read More
More than bricks and mortar
Thanks to your support, we have built 150 earthquake-strengthened classrooms at 36 schools, as well as toilet blocks and a water supply, in the Everest... Read More
Thank you from Thame
When a devastating series of earthquakes struck Nepal in 2015, few homes escaped damage in village of Thame. The school, built by Sir Ed and... Read More
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