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Thinking globally and climbing locally to raise funds for Nepal
Jamison Findlay, a trek participant and published author has written a wonderful summary of our 6 Peaks initiative. Enjoy the article published in Ottawa Magazine. http://www.ottawamagazine.com/society/2011/08/20/six-peaks-in-six-days-thinking-globally-climbing-locally/...
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High Altitude and DIAMOX
Impact of high altitude on the human body and brain High altitude can have a profound impact on the body: · As altitude increases, barometric pressure (measure of the weight of the air) reduces · At 19,000ft barometric pressure is half of that at sea...
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26 October - Kala Patthar and Downward
What a day! We got up at 4:00 a.m. to climb up to Kala Patthar lookout (about 200 meters above the Everest Base Camp) in order to see the sun rise over the Everest group of mountains. The sky was resonant with Himalayan stars, gazing down dispassionately...
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24 October - The Khumbu Glacier Appears
We are now in a high tundra landscape: no trees or shrubs, just rock, scruffy grass and a few flowers, with the snow-capped Himalayas in the background. We set off from Pheriche early--another beautiful day--and after skirting a mountain stream, we began...
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23 October - An Acclimatization Day
Today--an acclimatization day--we took a four-hour hike up the spur of a mountain that overlooks Pheriche, pausing first to look at the memorial to all those who have been killed on Everest--a large cone that has been bisected into two halves, and which...
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October 17th and 18th - The Trek Begins
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...
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APRIL-MAY TRAINING WALKS
DATE TIME MEETING LOCATION DESTINATION CONTACT THU APR 14 SUN APR 17 9:00 Judy's House-Hazel St @ McGillvrey Wolf Trail 613-833-1732 THU APR 21 6:00 Judy's Experiemental farm and canal SUN APR 24 9:00 Judy's Parliment hill-stairs/Wolfe Trail THU APR 28...
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22 October - In the Shadow of Mother and Child
The Himalayas are young mountains, as mountains go, and they have the sharp and dramatic profiles of young megafauna (tigers, leopards, etc.)--and the same charisma. When we left Deboche today on a beautiful morning, perhaps. the most dramatic of the...
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The Task is Formidable
Find us in the Ottawa Citizen "The Wrap" Bruinsma says, "The task is formidable but you have to just keep your head down and believe that you are making a difference one child and one family at a time." The hottest week so far this summer yet Anda Bruinsma...
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What Global Family Village Does
The Challenge To provide orphaned and abandoned children with a family, a home, education, and status in the community. (A family is a trained “mother,” 8-10 orphaned/abandoned siblings and community grandparents.) What are the issues? Nepal’s appalling...
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Summer Training
Thursday Night (except July 21) Time: 18:00 (just start doing the stairs, you will meet up with others) Where: Stairs behind the Parliment buildings, near "the Cats". 273 steps. Great work out. From there you can make loops east or west depending on what...
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19, 20 October - Into the "Sacred and Mysterious Tracts"
"The tops of mountains are the unfinished parts of the globe," wrote Henry David Thoreau over a hundred and fifty years ago. "[They} are sacred and mysterious tracts..." After breakfast (Tibetan bread, omelets, porridge) we set out under a early morning...