Mountain guide, Nepal.
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Saran Subba (37) has organized and guided hikes and expeditions in the Himalayas for over 10 years. He has worked for some of the leading trakking companies, but operates since 2004 Hi On Life Himalaya, a Nepalese agency based in Kathmandu.
Saran has guided many happy Swedes over the years. Groups tend to appreciate his vast knowledge of everything from nature and culture to medicine and languages. In addition to this, Saran shows an entusiasm and love of nature that is guaranteed to rub off during the trip. Saran and his team simply gives extraordinary experiences!
Merino underwear and the M. Everest jacket.
Saran has just summated the third and last Island Peak expedition for this season! The weather has been great and everyone in the group were satisfied and delighted with their performance and accomplishments.
An Italian company has assembled a webcam on the mountain Kala Pathar so that one could always have an eye on the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest!
This is a part of “Everest Share 2011 Research Project” and researchers from Bergamo installed the camera, which is the highest assembled webcam in the world.
Italian engineers along with the Nepal EV-k2-CNR team performed the installation. On this height, the webcam, which is a M12 Mobotix, must be able to manage as low as minus 30 C. The camera is using a wireless connection to transfer images to the “EV-K2-CNR Pyramid Laboratory, a observatory that stands on a height of 5050 metre. In this observatory video will be analysed and sent over to Italy for more studies.
Researches hopes to learn more about change of climate and global warming with help from this camera and meteorological data, collected from the world’s highest weather station (8,000 metre) on Everest.
Last I checked, the camera was on and amazing images on Everest’s 8,848 metre high peak could be seen.
The webcam is only working by daytime 06.30 – 18.30 local time, Nepal.
We have during a time helped ad supported Sony, a little girl suffering from a serious haert diesease. After collections of money and great support the vital operation is finally accomplished. Now, after 15 days – the little girl has finally woken up!
Hello!
This is an update on our project in Thade. Phew - having to do with authority in Nepal is not easy! Our school project is going slow - even though it would have need to go faster than ever.
The school is in such bad condition that the only teacher they had, has left the village and now the school is empty. It has simply closed!
The older kids has begun to go to a school two hours walk from Thade and the smaller children is at home with no education. We have collected some money but it is not enough to start to construct an entire building, and the paperwork with the Nepalese authorities is going very slowly.
We will continue the practical and legal work, and will do our best to collect more money to our account on Heart to heart. We really want to help the children in this village.
Just before christmas we sent a lot of cloth diapers and other necessities, like baby powder and baby oil for the babies in the village, with our Sherpa Harri. It is common for the mothers to use their old sarees (dresses) as diapers, which often gives the babies rashes and sore skin.
It is a small gift but very appreciated!
We thank all of you who supports the Thade project and want to encourage the rest of you, to help us make the children's dreams come true, to have a school in their own village.
/Hi On Life Adventures
Namaste!
Today I have been home to our Sirdar and friend Nima and visited his little daughter Sony. The help sent from Australia have really helped a lot and now she has started to gain weight and looks bright and cheery! She was handing out thank you kisses gladly and wanted to sit in our lap. Hopefully there will be a surgery soon!
Hi!
I am sure many of you remember the little girl Sony (our Sirdar Nimas 3-yearold daughter) who needed a heart surgery. In both Sweden and Australia many have helped, collecting money for the operation that would take place in September. On the 16th of September Sony visited the hospital to take some specimen and it turned out that she was too weak to go through surgery. She weighed only around 8 kilos and the doctors did not think she would be strong enough to go through surgery.
We were devastated - all the collected money was in vain - we were not able to help the little girl! The doctors in Khatmandu just shook their head when we asked them to tube-feed her to get her stronger. They did not want to "spend" expenses on her.
Saran went through fire and flames, and even though our hiking had begun he could not get Sony off his mind. About a month ago he found an Australian charity foundation who helps children around the world, and they were willing to take Sony under their wings. A couple of weeks ago the help she really needs, to get stronger and for her to gain weight, arrived and in a couple of months Sony and her father Nima is flying to Australia for her surgery! Because of the donated money we now have the possibility to send both of them there.
A big Thank you to all of you who has contributed! We are forever grateful and hope to be able to keep on giving you good news in the future. It feels fantastic to have the possibility to be able to help, and we hope that you feel the same gratitude as we do.
Greetings from Lukla, Himalaya
Christina, Hi On Life
Interview with Helen Aidla, Hestra
Hi Helen,
You’re one of those who support our school project in Thade, how come?
I usually check out HiOnLife and what’s going on in Nepal, it’s great fun to follow your adventures. At one of those times I saw that you had filmed a small sequence from the school in Thade that you posted on the blog. I think that wherever we find ourselves in the world all children should have the right to attend school. But we know that this isn’t true. If you can spare some money, we can go a long way with it.
Instead of gifts for your 40th birthday you wished that your friends would support the project, how did you get that idea?
Many of my friends and relatives wondered what I wanted for my birthday and the only answer I could give was “I don’t know”. But then I started to think in new ways. Maybe you should invest in charity - that’s when it hit me that I could wish for money for the project! Said and done, later when people asked me again I said that I wished for money for the school project Thade in Nepal.
How did you friends react to your wish?
I think that most people responded very positively. It was something different and new. Many wanted to see how it looked in Nepal, so I gave them the address to your website where they could read about the project. Many of our friends have children, so they were probably a bit surprised when they saw the school. I heard that many wanted to send paper, pencils, crayons etc. but as I had understand from you, the easiest way to contribute was to deposit money to Heart to Heart’s account. As this is about children on the other side of the globe and the children from Hestra could see how it was they could compare their classrooms and school to the one in Thade, so I think that it would mean a lot to them that the money arrived in a good way and that they could follow the project.
Your fundraising resulted in several thousand SEK, how does it feel?
Wow, was it that much! Yes, it’s always fun to be able to help out in one way or another. Myself and everyone that donated money to the school know that it will help the whole village. If I get the oppurtinity to travel to Nepal, I would love to visit the school!
Many thanks Helen for you contribution!
Please support the Thade School Project!
Hi On Life Adventures are happy to announce that we’ve just recently joind forces with the well-established aid organisation Heart to Heart on the “Thade School Project”. Together we can guarantee that everything is handled right, and it’s easier for the contributors as it’s expensive to send money small shipments to Nepal.
If you want to give the children of Thade a better school, you can use the Heart To Heart’s checking postal No. 90 07 85-7. Enter “Skolan Nepal” on the slip so that the full amount goes to the project. If you leave your address (preferably e-mail), we will send you a confirmation of your gift and continuous information on the project’s development.
If you have any questions about the project or want a donation certificate to give as a Christmas present or gift, please contact us at info@HiOnLife.se
We hope to give something amazing to the village of Thade and their lovely children – a nice, functional school and a better future!
Thanks in advance for your participation!
Hi On Life Adventures
During one of this autumn’s hikes in 2009 we had the oppurtinity to visit our sherpas Om and Hari’s home village – Thade. The village lies just south of the Solo Khumbu in the Okhal Dunga district, far from all tourist trails. Our visit to the village was a very special experience and gave us a fantastic insight into what is called “The Real Nepal” – The Nepal you won’t see on the classic routes to Mount Everest.
One of the reasons that we wanted to visit Thade was to see if we could support the village in any way. Om and Hari had always spoken so well about their village but we had also understood that it was on of all the villages in Nepal where they live at the subsistence level. Now we wanted to see what we could help out with.
Thade is about 3000 meters over the sea and the view from the village is fantastic! You can see Everest and several other Himalayan white peaks in the north and in the south the lowlands spread out, with an eagle’s eyesight you might even be able to see the Bay of Bengal… We really connected to the villagers who were extremely generous and hospitalible. They had so little, but gave so much.
When we got to visit the village’s only school, we felt that it was here that we could really do some good!
The school’s current situation
The school’s three classrooms are so small and simply furnished that many students have to stand up or sit on the cold earth floor during classes. There aren’t many windows, which means that the rooms are extremely dark. They had a blackboard in two of the three small rooms and to give you and idea of how small the rooms are one of our participants, Troy could touch both the front and rear wall at the same time in one of the classrooms and the other two wasn’t that much bigger. 25 children attend this school that the inhabitans have built themselves for their children to have the oppurtinity to study.
They can’t afford schoolbooks, pencils, crayons, or other equipment that we often see as obvious things in a classroom. The school has two teachers employed. Please take a look at the photos and videos we have and feel if this project is something that you would like to support.
The project
As soon as we have the foundings the construction of the school will begin. A budget is being developed and we will soon know more about the estimated cost. What we know for certain is that the cost will be a fraction of what you would pay for a similar building in Sweden.
We’ve also been asked if it’s possible to go there and help build the school as a volunteer. Of course! Do you have experience in construction and want to make a difference in one of the world’s poorest countries, please feel free to contact us!
If you want to “give away” a classroom, a blackboard or anything else that might
If you want to “give away” a classroom, a blackboard or anything else that can fit in a school as a gift to loved ones their names will be in the school’s premises.
You can follow the project here on Hi On Life’s website and we will continuously update the page with pictures and information.
How can you support the project?
For several reasons, we’ve a partnership with the well-established aid organisation Heart to Heart on this project. (www.hearttoheart.se) Together we can guarantee that everything is handled right, and it’s easier for the contributors as it’s expensive to send money small shipments to Nepal.
If you want to give the children of Thade a better school, you can use the Heart To Heart’s checking postal No. 90 07 85-7. Enter “Skolan Nepal” on the slip so that the full amount goes to the project.
If you leave your address we will send you a confirmation of your gift and continuous information on the project’s development.
If you have any questions about the project or want a donation certificate to give as a Christmas present or gift, please contact us at info@HiOnLife.se
We hope to give something amazing to the village of Thade and their lovely children – a nice, functional school and a better future!
Thanks in advance for your participation!
Here comes a greeting from Nepal and the Himalayas!
2009 draws to a close, Christmas is coming. It’s time for Christmas preparations, drink mulled wine, bake gingerbread cookies and last but not least buying presents. Do you know what to give your loved ones and is it perhaps time to give yourself a really special present?
We at Hi On Life Adventures are extra generous at this time of the year and offer 150 USD (about 1000 SEK) discount on all our trips in 2010, if you book before 31 December.
Would you like to give and extra rewarding Christmas gift this year, we give you the oppurtinity through our school project in the village of Thade!
During one of this autumn’s hikes in 2009 we had the oppurtinity to visit our sherpas Om and Hari’s home village – Thade. The village lies just south of the Solo Khumbu in the Okhal Dunga district, far from all tourist trails. Our visit to the village was a very special experience and gave us a fantastic insight into what is called “The Real Nepal” – The Nepal you won’t see on the classic routes to Mount Everest.
When we got to visit the village’s only school, we felt that we could really do some good!
The school’s three classrooms are so small and simply furnished that many students have to stand up or sit on the cold earth floor during classes. There aren’t many windows, which means that the rooms are extremely dark. They had a blackboard in two of the three small rooms and to give you and idea of how small the rooms are one of our participants, Troy could touch both the front and rear wall at the same time in one of the classrooms and the other two wasn’t that much bigger. 25 children attend this school that the inhabitans have built themselves for their children to have the oppurtinity to study.
Please visit Thade School Project to learn more about the project and see some pictures.
If you want to give away a part of a classroom, a blackboard or anything else that can fit in a school as a gift to loved ones their names will be in the school’s premises. Remember – in a poor country like Nepal ever penny make a big difference!
We hope to provide an amazing “gift” to the village of Thade and their lovely children – a nice, functional school and a better future!
Merry Christmas to you all and welcome to Nepal,
Hi On Life Adventures
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Saran is performing Island Peak expeditions with participants from all over the world. The expeditions start 30th of September and are continuing during the fall.
Expedition to Island Peak & Hike to Everest Base Camp + Annapurna Circuit.
In Nepal you get a duffle bag from Hi On Life. In it goes everything you need for the day’s trekking. Our porters carry them and place them in your tent or room at the lodge ready for when you arrive in the afternoon. They are ideal for things packed up in stuff sacks.
You carry a daypack of around 30 litres for your extra layers such as a fleece top and shell jacket, plus your hat and gloves. You’ll also want to make space for your water bottle, sunscreen and maybe a camera and some snacks.
The best thing to eat when trekking in the Himalayas is the local food – it tastes best every time. In Nepal you’ll always find Dal Bhat, which is rice with lentil soup, accompanied by various vegetables, chutneys etc. You can also get a meat curry to go with the Dal Bath, but it’s best to save that for on the way back. You always get a second helping of Dal Bath, so you’ll definitely be full by the end. You’ll also find pasta, pizza and other Western food on the menu. For breakfast, the choice is usually porridge or omelette.
Most people choose to walk with poles in the Himalayas. With all the ups and downs, poles take the pressure off the knees.
There’s nothing you can do! The key is to take it easy during the trek and not climb too high each day.
It’s important not to push yourself too hard, as that makes you more susceptible, and you have to drink plenty of water. The general rule of thumb is one litre of water per thousand metres of altitude: if you’re at 3,000 metres, you need to drink at least 3 litres of water, if you’re at 5,000 m you have to drink at least 5 litres of water, and so on.
