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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Everest Base Camp trek for Child's i Foundation</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dear All,</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What a challenge!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trekking in the Himalayas to Everest Base Camp!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In April I’ll be trekking with Russel Brice's Himalayan Experiences Expedition for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Child's i Foundation - <span><cite><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0e774a;">www.<strong>childsifoundation</strong>.org/</span></cite></span></span>. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Every penny donated will make a huge difference for all these children - their present lives as well as their future.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Am heading off to Kathmandu on 17 April, and after a couple of acclimatising sightseeing days there will start hiking with another 9 hardy souls and trek for 10 days up to Everest Base Camp - 5,140 metres above sea level! Hopefully exempt from mountain sickness I will be able to explore Base Camp for a couple of days and do day hikes to get as close to Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse as possible. Leaving the serious climbers behind to climb Lhotse I will head back down to Kathmandu and return to the UK on 9 May.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sounds straight forward doesn’t it? </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have stepped up my training by heading out to my local golf course at day break wearing hiking boots and heavy back pack, scaling the rolling hills in Surrey, as well as climbing the high peaks in the Lake District,</span></span><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> - forgoing golf, several glasses of wine and other activities. </span></span><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Time will show if this is enough!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now I come to you and the part you can play. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Please give whatever you can to Child's i Foundation through my Just Giving page.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the end of the trip I will post photos of the successful trekkers and if you have the stomach for it, regale you with stories and even more photos!</span></span></p>
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