An excellent and strong one from a wide variety of backgrounds, generations and countries...the email addresses of our group will be circulated to all of the group soon...meanwhile here we are...
Picture... from Sir Josephs 1848 Journey, the Tambur valley; our route takes us along the right hand side..
The crew...
Pema Tsering Sherpa,38, a Sherpa from a remote village in the Solu Khumbu (Everest region) is our Sirdar, the boss and overseer of the operation...he has been waorking with me over the last few weeks here in Kathmandu organising our porter team (a major undertaking as they are from central Nepal and travel by bus to the east to work for us.) Pema has twenty years in the trek business, and is a master of the logistics and organisation needed for an expedition like ours.
Pema is on pema_ts@hotmail.com
Joel Schone, 54, American from NJ, but lived most of his life in the UK, has been trekking in the Himalayas for over twenty years now - leads treks for 200+ days a year - and enough of you have trekked with me - so polite comments below!
Pic...Joel on the Chadar...thats ice in his beard!
Pema Tsering Sherpa,38, a Sherpa from a remote village in the Solu Khumbu (Everest region) is our Sirdar, the boss and overseer of the operation...he has been waorking with me over the last few weeks here in Kathmandu organising our porter team (a major undertaking as they are from central Nepal and travel by bus to the east to work for us.) Pema has twenty years in the trek business, and is a master of the logistics and organisation needed for an expedition like ours.
Pema is on pema_ts@hotmail.com
Joel Schone, 54, American from NJ, but lived most of his life in the UK, has been trekking in the Himalayas for over twenty years now - leads treks for 200+ days a year - and enough of you have trekked with me - so polite comments below!
Pic...Joel on the Chadar...thats ice in his beard!
Joel is on j_schone@hotmail.com, j_schone@yahoo.com, Changlama@project-himalaya.com
Ali Tucker, Late twenties, A brit and good friend who has trekked with PH seven times and now fields enquiries, helps with accounts - and treks. Ali below post Manaslu
Lobsang, Thirties, has adventured and trekked the length of the Himalayas with Joel over the last ten years - father of a beautiful boy and happily married, he has (more or less) left his wild years behind him and is the rock on which our India treks are built...on this trip he is our all rounder - walking with the trekkers, helping at the campsite, scouting out the dodgy trails with Joel, and is looking forward to a return to the area - he was with Joel here in 2001. For more about lobsang go to
http://kingdoms-in-the-sky.blogspot.com/2006/04/lobsang-as-father.html
and on the website
http://www.project-himalaya.com/news-00-lobsang-tales.html
Tenpa, Thirties, is our cook, and meeting him in 2001 was a turning point for Project-Himalaya in India..his food is simply incredible; he turns out the highest quality food and freshly baked bread at all altitudes and all seasons -like Lobsang, he is an exile, a Tibetan refugee based in North India.
With Them we have a team of thirty porters, not all of whom are with us at all times - some of them will be heading up to Ghunsa direct from the airstrip at Suketar, to take food for the second part of the trek. We have a core team of twenty Tamang porters from Trisuli (the Langtang region) and the rest locally recruited.
Kitchen crew - A team of five all rounders - helping with tents, getting the porters moving in the morning, and setting up our kitchen.
http://kingdoms-in-the-sky.blogspot.com/2006/04/lobsang-as-father.html
and on the website
http://www.project-himalaya.com/news-00-lobsang-tales.html
Tenpa, Thirties, is our cook, and meeting him in 2001 was a turning point for Project-Himalaya in India..his food is simply incredible; he turns out the highest quality food and freshly baked bread at all altitudes and all seasons -like Lobsang, he is an exile, a Tibetan refugee based in North India.
With Them we have a team of thirty porters, not all of whom are with us at all times - some of them will be heading up to Ghunsa direct from the airstrip at Suketar, to take food for the second part of the trek. We have a core team of twenty Tamang porters from Trisuli (the Langtang region) and the rest locally recruited.
Kitchen crew - A team of five all rounders - helping with tents, getting the porters moving in the morning, and setting up our kitchen.
THE TREKKERS
Dave and Murray
From NZ we have two childhood friends - Dave and Murray will introduce themselves as we circulate addresses, but for me I can only say they are a couple of the most solid guys on the planet - Dave on his fourth trek with us, Murray his second. They know Lobsang and Tenpa (and Ali) well..
Leigh
Our Australian, Leigh was with us on our Kang La exploratory trek last August, and owns the most taped together poncho on the planet...her main question was 'Is Tenpa coming?'
Our Australian, Leigh was with us on our Kang La exploratory trek last August, and owns the most taped together poncho on the planet...her main question was 'Is Tenpa coming?'
Emma
As she treks her partner Richard is climbing Everest with Jamie - she is travelling at the moment, and the last we heard she was trekking in south America - and Emma is a Brit!
Guido
Two of our trekkers are from the country with no mountains - Holland; Guido grew up in Africa, and has wanted to trek the Nepal Himalayas for Many years - and this is the year.
Paul
Also from Holland, Paul has a long experience of trekking in the Himalayas - in 2006 he joined us on Nanda Devi, a great member of our team - and he, like Guido, decided 2008 was the Kanchenjunga year!
Our Americans -
Loren, Nina, John, Robert & Champ
The instigators! In between treks in the busiest summer ever in India, I picked up a mail from Loren and friends who wanted to visit Kanchenjunga - and the rest is history!
nina@ninabarlow.com, RodneyCGlover@eaton.com, robert.hicks@nielan.com, jkettley@med.umich.edu, kerry.nielan@nielan.com
