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After a wonderful day spent touring the ancient Nepali cities of Bhaktapur and Panan, we got a good night's sleep in order to catch our early flight to Lukla, the starting point of the trek. We were airborne at 10:15, after only a two-hour delay! The...

It was the first day on the job for the GVF Trek Logkeeper, and he got enough of Katmandu’s sights, tastes, sounds and smells to last him for a long time to come. The whole GFV Trek team is here now, and we got up at seven-thirty or so for an excellent...

We rise early to rambled along the gently awakening streets of Kathmandu towards the impressive Swayambhunath Temple (a.k.a Monkey Temple). The relentless harangue of retail hawkers flogging their wares on foreign visitors is blissfully absent. Street...

After eight months of training and fund raising the dream is materializing into a reality. The trek participants en route from Ottawa, all straggle in from far-flung places (Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delphi) following days of travel, to that exotic...

Wait for it................We raised $11,379 in September!!! Wow, what a remarkable reflection of generosity, support and hard work. September was the month of bake sales, a huge garage sale, a house party, and incredible support from friends, family...

The rugged banks of the Ottawa River, just beginning to blush with fall colours, was perfect. Counting down to the trek...on September 25, we all came together for the first time...and the last before we gather in Kathmandu in the second week of October,...

This Saturday past (September 24th), the strains of such classics as "Fire and Rain," "House of the Rising Sun," and "Charlie Fox Put on his Socks" (old tune, new words) could be heard rising from Liesha Mayo-Bruinsma's house in Ottawa. Liesha had volunteered...

Imagine our surprise and delight when, at Wendy and Scot's recent end-of-summer BBQ, Wendy's friend Jocelyn presented the trek participants there with a magnificent cake in the shape of Everest Base Camp. Complete with prayer flags and toothpick secured...

“Good morning, ma’am! I see you’re looking at that elegant wine-bottle drying rack. It’s antique, by the way. Yes, I know it’s plastic, but that’s heritage plastic, ma’am… For you? A special price for you, ma’am. I’ll even throw in this twenty-inch mirrored...

Come and visit us at the New Edinburgh garage sale at 151 Stanley Street. Meet the team heading to Everest Base Camp in 4 weeks. We have collected a huge selection of things you didn't know you needed (or wanted) from friends and family. If we don't have...