Hi, I'm Chris, the founder and CEO at Theadventurepeople.com.

Since 2017 we've been helping people complete the Everest Base Camp trek working with our local partner and guides. Over the years the feedback has been wonderful and we know this is due to the guides who work with us, helping people not just compete a once in a lifetime ambition but with such joy.

As you have seen in the news, an area of Nepal has been devastated by the flash flooding with far reaching consequences across the country.

Two of our guides lost their family homes.

Sarala’s home was her family’s ancestral house. Her parents lived there all year round. After her father retired, the two of them supported themselves by farming the land around it. Sarala and her brothers and sisters work away for much of the year, but at festival time they all came home, and the house filled up with three generations of family. The flood took the house completely. It was worth far more to the family than the bricks and timber. It was the place they all came back to.

Prakash’s family are small farmers on land that has been theirs for generations. They used to grow rice. Because Prakash is away guiding for long stretches and the heavy work was too much for the rest of the family, last year they switched to bananas: less back-breaking, and still enough to bring in some income alongside what Prakash earns on the trail. The flood did not just damage the farm. It swept the whole thing away and left a deep ravine where the fields used to be. Prakash’s family and home are safe, and Indira at Icicles tells us he has stayed remarkably positive. But the land that fed his family, and half of their income, is simply gone.

In Nepal, families are closely tied to their ancestral land and most live in a joint-family system, where children take responsibility for their parents and for the wider household. Losing an ancestral home or farm does not affect one person. It affects everyone who depends on it, across generations. That is why we wanted to do something for Sarala and Prakash specifically, rather than simply add our voice to the general relief effort.

The funds will help rebuild family homes.

Please note all monies minus fees will be transferred to the guides directly with confirmation from our partners in Nepal.

I hope you can help.