I am going up again.  This will be my biggest – in every sense of the word - challenge yet: Cho Oyu, straddling the Tibetan-Nepalese boarder, is the sixth highest mountain in the world and, at 8,200 meters (27,000 feet), it is 660 meters short of Everest itself. 

It will be tough.  Tougher than anything I have ever done.  I have no illusions over that.  And that is where I hope you will come in.  I have bags of determination, but I need that extra push; that extra reason not to weaken when the pain overpowers, or when the strength simply evaporates.  I am asking you, by sponsoring my attempt, to put me under financial obligation to stay with it to the summit – and back down again.

For my Baruntse climb in 2007 friends, family, clients and contacts gave over £6000.  My aim this year is to better that.  The simple reason is that as a result of that generosity one Nepali child from a desperately poor rural region has her entire educational career secured.  Six thousand pounds will achieve that in Nepal.   Sandy and I maintain a second child.  Ranjana and Bipin (pictured), both 12, are soon to start their third year in a Kathmandu boarding school – their village is a five hour jeep ride away – to pursue an education that simply would not have otherwise been available to them.  The enthusiasm, happiness - and gratitude – demonstrated by their weekly letters is enough reward, and enough encouragement to do it again.

Future For Nepal, a British charity, was set up in 2004 by gap year student, Thomas Wells, as an organization dedicated to giving disadvantaged children in Nepal a better start in life.  Check out their website: www.futurefornepal.co.uk

All donations go direct to Future For Nepal.  If you are a UK tax payer, you can gift aid your donation on the website to enable Future For Nepal to receive an additional £28 for every £100 donated. 

So, put me under pressure:  give what you can, please, so that I feel obliged to reward your confidence, and so that another child or children may have a future.

Thank you.  I – and they – will be eternally grateful.

Hugo

 

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