There we go! Our first official project is an attempt to create more awareness among Mount Everest climbers about mountains serving as important water sources for thousands of people living down stream. It's a small project as we got this opportunity just before the Nepali Everest Clean Up expedition, which we join, starts. We call it the Everest Awareness Project.
For this project we've chosen to print brochures (download from our website) and a few large sized banners or sign boards. We'll hand out the brochures in the Everest base camp and in the advanced base camp (camp 2). The brochures explain about the water problems in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, which role mountains have and why it's important to keep these water towers clean. Climbers should be aware of the fact that their playing ground is actually an important water tower for lot's of people living down stream. In order to make our point we'll be trying to hang our large sized banners ( 1 meter x 2 meter) with a short, but clear message and request to keep the water sources like Everest clean.
With some trouble, we had our brochures and banners printed in Kathmandu. The banners we already carried to the base camp ourselves and attached them not mistakenly on the roof of our kitchen tent that is pitched next to the main trail to the ice fall. It's great to see that so many stop to read it, climbers, trekkers and Sherpa's. Great! Unfortunately, the brochures are still somewhere on a yak on its way to the base camp, but as soon as our precious yak arrives, we'll be handing out the brochures to all 35 expeditions and around 250 climbers before they ascent for their final summit bid. Let's hope some climbers remind our message before they dump their oxygen bottles or other 'garbage' on the mountain. Even if there's a cleaning team at present!!!
That's it for now, we'll post some pictures as soon as we have returned to Kathmandu!
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