Trek completed successfully! Read more about the trek at our blog:
http://mounteverest2009.blogspot.com
Trek to Everest Base Camp 1 - April 2009 - was completed in support of
Everest Base Camp Trek Photos are now online. Click here to view them.
Date: April
10th 2009
- April 28th 2009
Location: Himalayas
Fundraising Event: Trekking to Everest Base Camp 1 @
5,800m (18,400ft)
Fundraising Target for ActionAid:
£1096 - ACHIEVED!!!
Fundraising
Target for
Macmillan Cancer Support: £1250
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Sponsor online and support Macmillan Cancer Support:
As an existing child sponsor through the charity ActionAid, I am already supportive of their efforts working with poor and marginalised communities to help them recognise, promote and secure their basic rights, and control their own development. ActionAid operate across the world where assistance is needed most. I feel ActionAid are more than a worthy beneficiary of funds raised by this event./p>
* I'm undertaking the trek with a dear friend, Jennifer Venables, who is raising money for her own chosen cause, Macmillan Cancer Support. Please support both causes!
Fundraising Update - Feb 2009
My primary fundraising target of £1096 has been achieved. Now Jen is aiming for £1250 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Please sponsor her online at http://www.justgiving.com/everestbasecamp09
Why did I decide to raise at least £1096?
£60 which could
provide a nutritious meal for a street child every night for a year at
an ActionAid street shelter in Delhi, India.
+ £100 which could run a medical unit for 5 days,
treating over 1000 people in Gujarat.
+ £150 which could buy 50 shoes to help a community
start farming again in Rwanda.
+ £200 which could provide enough medicine and
nutritional supplements to keep 20 HIV/AIDS orphans healthy for a year
in Rwanda.
+ £250 which could pay for the annual salary of one
teacher/facilitator at an Access centre in Ethiopia.
+ £336 which could provide a street child in India with
food, shelter, medical care and education for a year.
= £1096 which really goes a long way when it's sent in the right direction, doesn't it?!
Please show your support and sponsor me today! :D
Around 3 billion people worldwide try to survive on less than £1 a day. Child sponsorship costs the equivalent of 50p a day. You can make a difference!
The 17-day trek follows the following itinerary, taken from the Imaginative Traveller site.
Day 1, KATHMANDU: Arrival in Kathmandu.
Day 2, KATHMANDU: Morning walking tour of the market area of Asan, Durbar Square and Swayambunath Temple.
Day 3, PHAKDING (2,600m): Fly to Lukla. Here we organise our loads with porters and Sherpas then set off to Phakding, in the mountains.
Day 4, NAMCHE BAZAR (3,440m): We follow the Dudh Kosi river, passing villages interspersed with magnificent forests of rhododendron, magnolia trees and giant firs to Namche Bazar, the main settlement of the Sherpa area.
Day 5, THAME (3,800m) – NAMCHE BAZAR: A day to acclimatise. We hike to Songbuche for superb views of the snowy peaks of Teng Kangpoche (6,500m) and Kwangde (6,187m).
Day 6, TYANGBOCHE (TENGBOCHE) (3,800m): From Namche we trek to Khumjung at the foot of sacred Khumbila peak (5,761m). Khumjung Gompa possesses what is said to be the skull of a yeti. Continue to Phunki and Tyangboche for one of the most magnificent views in the world; an awe-inspiring panorama of Himalayan giants: Kwangde, Tawache, Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Ama Dablam, Kategna and Thamserku.
Day 7, DINGBOCHE (4,300m): Cross the Imja Khola and continue through terraced fields and rolling pastures where yaks graze, to Pangboche (3,860m).
Day 8, DINGBOCHE (4,300m): Rest day.
Day 9, LOBUCHE (4,900m): The trail climbs through a grass carpeted valley to Khumbu Glacier and reaches Dughla.
Day 10, KALA PATTAR (5,600m): Climb Kala Pattar hill, the best vantage point for viewing Mt Everest. Then descend to Gorakshep.
Day 11, EVEREST BASE CAMP (5,800m): From the dry sandy area of Gorakshep, it is a day trek to the Everest Base Camp. Later return to Lobuche via Gorakshep.
Day 12, TYANGBOCHE (3,800m): We walk back via Pheriche and Pangboche to Tyangboche.
Day 13, MONJO (2,500m): We continue our descent via Namche Bazar to Monjo.
Day 14, LUKLA (2,800m): Return to Lukla where we spend the night.
Day 15, KATHMANDU: Fly from Lukla to Kathmandu. Transfer to hotel.
I hope to raise a minimum of £1096 for ActionAid, either through direct sponsorships (both online and offline) and also through additional ActionAid child sponsorships. RBS employee? Email me by choosing 'Smith, Steven (Churchill Sales)' from the Outlook Address Book for details of how to sponsor a child tax-free through RBS 'Give As You Earn'.
Further details of our fundraising efforts will appear here in due course.
Thanks for your support.
Ste Smith
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ActionAid is registered charity No. 274467/p>
