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As you probably already know, I'm off to the little village of Resha in Baglung, Nepal for six weeks this summer to build a
community centre with Oxford Development Abroad!
As many of you will have noticed, Nepal is a high place.Therefore in respect of the elevated altitude of my destination I decided to climb 10,000 metres by tearing up as many peaks in the UK as I could to raise the £750 required for the project - this money is for the raw materials needed for the community centre, soak pits and smokeless stoves we'll be building. Many of you wonderful people pledged to support me, and this site is just a way for you to donate easily.
A few other details on the project:
- ODA is a charity that focuses not on giving students a "westerner's project holiday" but actually sending you to do proper manual labour for the whole time, living with a Nepalese family and doing essential community work.
- To that end, fundraising is not for flights or my personal expenses (I am indeed dipping into my savings!) but is solely to finance the work I'm doing out there.
- I'm also raising money for a "microfund", a donation that my project group will give to a community project of our choice once we're out there.
- If you want to know more about the project details go to http://www.odauk.org and look at the Nepal 2010 section. There's lots of photos from my trips on the facebook group "Help Greg Climb to Nepal!". Thanks!
As many of you will have noticed, Nepal is a high place.Therefore in respect of the elevated altitude of my destination I decided to climb 10,000 metres by tearing up as many peaks in the UK as I could to raise the £750 required for the project - this money is for the raw materials needed for the community centre, soak pits and smokeless stoves we'll be building. Many of you wonderful people pledged to support me, and this site is just a way for you to donate easily.
In total I climbed 14 mountains, including the highest in England, Scotland and Wales in just over two months, did interestingly awful things to my tendon, battled through some atrocious weather, enjoyed some amazing sunshine and views, and managed to knacker the car enough to fail its MOT!
The peaks I climbed were (showing the height I gained in metres):
Pen Y Fan, Brecon Beacons (461) Snowdon – Miners and Pyg tracks, Snowdonia (885) Moel Siabod, Snowdonia (677) Kinder Scout, Peak District (393) Bleaklow Head, Peak District (432) Snowdon, Llanberis path – although not all the way to the top due to the weather! (874) Snowdon, Watkin path (1028) Helvellyn, Lake District (803) Scafell Pike, Lake District (900) High Stile, Lake District (703) Blencathra, Lake District (738) Ben Nevis, Scotland (1334) Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons (504) Crug Mawr, Brecon Beacons (340)Again, a massive thank you for donating and to all the lovely people who came up the many mountains with me!A few other details on the project:
- ODA is a charity that focuses not on giving students a "westerner's project holiday" but actually sending you to do proper manual labour for the whole time, living with a Nepalese family and doing essential community work.
- To that end, fundraising is not for flights or my personal expenses (I am indeed dipping into my savings!) but is solely to finance the work I'm doing out there.
- I'm also raising money for a "microfund", a donation that my project group will give to a community project of our choice once we're out there.
- If you want to know more about the project details go to http://www.odauk.org and look at the Nepal 2010 section. There's lots of photos from my trips on the facebook group "Help Greg Climb to Nepal!". Thanks!