Thank you to everyone for becoming involved with charitable giving, donation, philanthropy and contribution to the Himalaya and charity non-profit volunteer service work, helping local people help themselves to build hospitals, schools, environmental, and cultural preservation projects. Below are a list of generous donors that have helped the MEF change the lives of local people in Nepal and Tibet (don't see your name listed? Please let us know so we can add you, thanks):
Special Thanks to the Following Organizers of Projects and Patrons of the Mount Everest Foundation: | Shelley Bloom | MF/STMF | Former June Service Trek 2009 member. Shelley came back to Kathamndu to volunteer in local hospitals and has provided excellent medical advice for treating the individuals the MEF is sponsoring. | | Hong Hoang | MEF | Former November 2008 Service Trek member. Hong helped put on an event in Seattle to raise money for the Service Trek Member's Foundation. She also helped set up the Service Trek Member's Foundation | Denise & Brad | Deboche | Sponosred the new roof of the Deboche Nunnery. | | Jill MacDonald & the students of Shaker Junior High | MEF | Her and the wonderful students at Shaker Junior high made and donated clothing for the sherpa children we visit along our Service Walks in 2008 and 2009. They are currently working on more for 2010 and we really appreciate all of the hard work they've put into keeping the children of remote Nepal warm. | | Marcia MacDonald | Deboche | Set up Deboche Nunnery Foundation and has been instrumental in raising funds for this project.
| Kharis Fausset
| MEF | Kind donation to provide Depo shots for the Patale Health Post for the whole valley. | | Sandy Murray | MEF | Former November 2008 Service Trek member. Sandy has helped in setting up the Service Trek Member's Foundation, raising funds and providing excellent medical advice for treating the individuals the MEF is sponsoring. | | Katharine Peacock | JPMF | Set up Jonathan Peacock Memorial Fund, which so kindly sponsored the nursing education of Dati Sherpa. | | Elaine Smith | RAN/MEF | Former June Service Trek 2009 member. Donated and helped raise the money for Pasang Sherpa's critical care treatment and schooling in Kathmandu, as well as staying with Pasang after surgery and revisiting him in the hospital this autumn. | | Christy Thuesen | MEF | Former November 2008 Service Trek member. Christy's daughter and her school helped raise a lot of funds for the Service Trek Member's Foundation in 2009 | | Barbara Trenary | MEF | Former November 2008 Service Trek member. Barbara helped to raise a lot of funds for the Service Trek Member's Foundation, as well as set it up. |
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Donors $501, £300, €305, and up -
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School | MEF | | Association for Experiential Education | MEF | | Leslie Broady | JPMF | | Ronald and Ginger Cloud | MF | | The Overlake School | MEF | | Susan Leiper | Deboche | | Terry Bergstedt | MF/STMF | Pierce County Library System, Friends of the Library | MF | | Lynn Alandt | Deboche | | Kharis Fausset & Nigel Greening | MEF | Denise LaFlamme & Brad Grimstead
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Donors: $101-$500, £60-£299, €70-€304 -
| Eric and Janice Albin | MEF | | Bill Bartee | MF | | Ted Bartee | MEF | | Windy Bartee | MEF | | Carol Benek | MEF | | Ed Benites | MEF | | Geoff Birnbaum | MEF | | Frank Blainey | MEF | | Kurt Blair | MEF | | Rabbi Borovitz | MEF | | Diana Dunnan | Deboche | | Carol & Brent: Feathered Friends - Seattle | MEF | | Alan Formanek | MEF | | Patricia Furchner | MEF | | Adrian Garcia | MEF | | Maria Georgiou | MEF | | Richard Goldstein | Deboche | | Suzette & Greg Hanson | MEF | Phil Herbert
| JPMF | | Kevin Lavoie | Deboche | | Kate MacIsaac | MEF | | Lois Proctor Mack | Deboche | | Helen Peacock | JPMF | | Susan Remis | MF | | Horace Shaffer | Deboche | | Mary-Leigh Smart | Deboche | | Jason Smolensky | MEF | | John Spivey | JPMF | | Jenn Spradlin | Deboche | | Sally & Dennis Towlson | MEF | | Charlotte Wilson | MEF | | St. David's Budget Box | Deboche | | World Expeditions | MEF | | Longbranch Improvement Club | MEF | back to top
Donors: $51-$100, £30-£59, €35-€69 -
| Terri Baker | MEF | | John Bornstein | Deboche | | Sallie Carrigan | MEF | | John Chalk | MEF | | Donald Cutler | Deboche | | Carole Dickerson | MEF | Dave Forest
| MEF | | Hadley French | Deboche | | Mike Gigliotti | MEF | | Beverly Hallam | Deboche | | June Hansen | MEF | | Kate Harrison | JPMF | | Susan Hendrick | MEF | | Muriel Hoyt | Deboche | | Patricia Kish | Deboche | | Lowell Larson | MEF | | Xavier Lopez-Suarez | STMF | | Wanda Neste | MEF | | Nancy Norris | Deboche | | Steve O'Brien | MEF | | Dustin Osborn | MEF | | A Pulver | MEF | | Bob Rein | MEF | | Lynn Salerno | MEF | | Marc Schlossman | JPMF | | Rachel Schmeidler | MEF | | Mark Scott | MEF | | James Spencer | MEF | | Lenore Valerio-Buford | MEF | | Christopher Wise | Deboche | | Edmost Corporation | MEF | | Peloquin Property Management | Deboche | | Saint David's Episcopal Church | Deboche | back to top
Donors: $1-$50, £1-£29, €1-€34 - | Patricia Beecher | Deboche | | Amy Blake | MF | | Michael Bunney | STMF | | Alan Burke | MEF | | C.D. Capp | MEF | | Warren Cook | Deboche | | Kathi Cooper | MEF | | Rebecca DesChamps | MEF | | Holly Dowell | MEF | | Bradford Elvidge | Deboche | | Barbara Gooding | MEF | | Elizabeth Grinter | JPMF | | Susan Gulick | STMF | | Wanda Hendrick | MEF | | Helen Horn | Deboche | | Marjory Jacobson | JPMF | | Susan Kellett | STMF | | Askold Kobasa | MEF | | Paul Mullaney | MEF | | Ba Phan | STMF | | Roger Phillips | MEF | | Erin Pratt | MEF | | Dean Rinaldi | Deboche | | Darlene Smith | MEF | | Grace Swanson | MEF | | Debbie Trunk | MEF | | Theodore Veiock | Deboche | | Carole Wahlers | MEF | | Elise Weldon | MEF | | Connie Wilbert | MEF | | Beth Wolfe | MEF | | Calluna Fine Flowers & Gifts | Deboche
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Former Service Walk Members -
Service Trek November 2009:
- Ms. Katherine Waldrop - US
- Ms. Jacqueline Cross - UK
- Brian Cross - UK
- David Begneaud - US
Service Trek October 2009: - Ms. Edith Hoag-Godsey - US
- Ms. Angela White - US
- Ms. Erin Coughlin - US
- Ms. Marissa Dedes - US
- Ms. Minna Navvab - US
- Ms. Nikkole Shea - US
- Ms. Diane Asher - US
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Service Trek June 2009: - Ms. Elaine Smith - New Zealand
- Ms. Rachel Dillhoff - US
- Ms. Alexa Dillhoff - US
- Ms. Shelley Bloom - US
- Ms. Chu Trandinh - France/US
- Ms. Ying Hsu - US
Service Trek November 2008: - Ms. Sandy Murray - US
- Ms. Barbara Trenary - US
- Ms. Liz Carr - US
- Ms. Christy Thuesen - US
- Ms. Lilia Wong - US
- Ms. Hong Hoang - US
- David Dogruel - US
Service Trek June 2007: - Ms. Lisa McClellan - US
- Ms. Celia Rogers - UK
- Kanad Chakrabarty - US
Service Trek June 2004:
- Ms. Elselien te Hennepe - Netherlands
- Dr. John Vavruska - US
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Past Lecture Hosts/Organizers -
2009 lectures: - 14 January - Pierce County Library: University Place Branch
- 18 January - Pierce County Library: Bonny Lake Branch
- 29 January - Tenino HighSchool
- 9 February - Pierce County Library: Orting Branch
- 10 February - Pierce County Library: Summit Branch
- 11 February - Pierce County Library: Buckley Branch
- 14 February - Pierce County Library: Eatonville Branch
- 13-15 March - Association for Experiential Education (AAE): Northwest Region Conference
- 17 March - Pierce County Library: Tillicum Branch
2008 lectures: 2007 lectures: - 12 December Reading RISC AAC
- 10 December Portland Trio Nasp
- 21 November San Francisco World Expeditions
- 19 September Redmond Overlake School
- 25 August Orlando FFI
- 18 August Timberline Lodge Young Presidents Organization International
- 25 March AAC New England Section
- 22 March Renton Primary School
- 16 March Redding Mountain Bike Club
- 13 March Aberdeen Mountain Club
- 14 March London Castle Climbing Centre
- 15 March Basingstoke-Alton Climbing Club
- 10 March Vancouver Thomas Jefferson Middle School
- 5 March Vancouver Cascade Middle School
- 27 February Laguna Niguel Bacchus Society
- 24 February Los Angeles Beit T'Shuvah Recovery Center
- 23 February Pasadena REI
- 22 February Polytechnic School
- 21 February Malibu Rotary Club
- 20 February University of Chapel Hill
- 19 February Charlotte North Carolina Jesse Brown's
- 16 February Vancouver International Film Festival
- 15 February Seattle Language Academy
- 10 February Longbranch Improvement Club
- 8 February Seattle Feathered Friends
- 20 January Seattle Washington CEO Convention
- 14 January Clearwater Convention Center
- 13 January Tampa BigCat Foundation back to top
2006 Lectures: - 17 December Bristol Climbing Club
- 14 December Birmingham Climbing Club
- 6 December Malibu Jewish Center back to top
2005 Lectures: - 11 January, Southern California Mountaineers Association, RockClimbing. org, Los Angeles
- 24 January, 7:00 pm, Summit Canyon Mountaineering, 732 Grand Avenue, Glenwood Springs, CO, 81601, Shane Edmonds (970) 945-7062;
- 25 January, 7:30 pm, Steamboat Springs Community Centre, next to the Bud Werner Memorial Library, 1289 Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs, CO, 80477, George Barlow, (970) 879-5453;
- 26 January, 7:15 pm, Wild Mountain Outfitters (near Candyman), 851 Saint Michael's Drive, Santa Fe, NM, 87505, Jon and Jan Asher, (505) 986-1152;
- 27 January, 7:30 pm, Colorado Mountaineering Club, Boulder Club House, Table Mesa Shopping Centre, 633 South Broadway, Unit N , Boulder, CO, 80305, Bob Guthrie (720) 838-4197;
- 2 February, 7:30 pm. Red Lion, Redding, California, Ginger Cloud (530) 275-8238
- 5 February, 2:00 pm, Vertical Ventures, 5402-E Pioneer Park Blvd., Tampa, FL, 33634, (813) 884-ROCK
- 6 February, 10:00 am, The Harbourview Centre, 300 Cleveland Street, Clearwater, FL, 33755, (727) 462-6778
- 8 February, 7:00 pm, Jesse Brown's, Sharon Corners, 4732 Sharon Road, Across from South Park Mall, Charlotte, NC, 28210, Jeff Botz (704) 287-7910
- 9 February, 7:45 pm, Eisenhart Auditorium, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY, 14603, Stu Milligan, Adirondack Mountain Club, (585) 436-5581
- 10 February, 7:00 pm, Thoreau School, 91 Laurel Street, Concord, MA, 01742, Near Concord Centre, Court Booth, Concord-Carlisle Adult & Community Education, (978) 318-1540
- 11 February, 7:00 pm, Bresnahan School, 333 High Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, Tim Hanke, CubMaster, Pack 21, (978) 462-5745
- 21 February, 20:00, Climbing Centre Rock Steady, Zanderijweg 12-14, Bussum, Netherlands, tel 079-3230323;
- 22 February, 19:30, Climbing Centre Ayers Rock, Buytenparklaan 14, Zoetenmeer, Netherlands 035-6925000;
- 23 February, 7:30 pm, King Edward Hall, High Street, Lindfield, West Sussex, England.
Next to 'White horse pub' and opposite the village pond. Mike East, 07885402526 01444 484970 back to top
Lectures 2003 & 2004: - 19 November. Alpine Club Northern Lecture Series: Hathersage
- 27 November, London, Private showing. Henry Dallal
- 9 December. Focus Fitness, Albuquerque
- 10 December. Wild Mountain Outftters, Santa Fe
- 11 December, EMS Denver
- 12 December. EMS Boulder
- 14 December, Winter Park, Beaver's Condos
- 17 December, Lake Oswego
- 7 January, Seattle, Second Ascent
- 15 January. Greenspoint Club, Houston
- 16 January. Continental Reservations Center, Houston
- 20 January. Appalachian Mountain Club. Boston
- 21 January. MIT Outing Club, Cambridge
- 22 January. Wilderness House, Boston
- 23 January. St Johnsbury Academy, Vermont (3 shows)
- 26 January Syracuse Carrier Circle, New York
- 27 January. Suny Oneonta, New York
- 1 February, Nivon, Rotterdam back to top
- 3 February Sleaford Mountain Club
- 5 February Christ's Hospital School, Horsham
- 9 February. Pipeworks Gym, Sacramento
- 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, and 25 February for A16, Southern California, with Pemba Doma Sherpa, first Nepalese woman to climb Everest and Survive, and Murari Sharma, trekking expert.
- England and Wales: 10-20 February, 2003: Central Asia Institute
- Monday, 10 February, Guildford Mountain Club meeting at "The Boathouse" 8pm
- Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, Alpine Club, London, 7:30pm
- Thursday, 13 February, Saatchi's, London
- Sunday, 16 February, 2003, Theatre Brycheiniog, Brecon, Wales, 7pm
- Tuesday, 18 February, Rockhopper Mountain Club, London, at the Bull and Mouth, 8pm
- Thursday, 20 February, 2003, Taunton Leisure, Bedminster, Bristol, 8pm
- Colorado and New Mexico: January 23-30, 2003: Anatoli Boukreev Memorial Fund
- Thursday, January 23, 2003: Colorado Mountain Club, Golden, 7:00pm
- Friday, January 24, 2003: EMS-Denver, 7:00pm
- Monday, January 27, 2003, Stone Age Climbing Gym, Albuquerque, 8:00pm
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003, Focus Fitness, Albuquerque, 7:15pm
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003, Wild Mountain Outfitters, Santa Fe, 7:30pm
- Thursday, January 30, 2003, Neptunes, Boulder, 8:00pm. back to top
Lectures 2002: - Alpine Club, London
- Brecon Outdoor Centre, Wales
- Mountain Community, Portland Oregon
- EMS, Denver Colorado
- Seattle, Second Ascent
- Staehelin Family, Basel
- Berg Family, Berlin
- Scheck Family, Stuttgart
- van der Plas family, Brussels
- Ericsson Ski Club, Skier's Lodge, La Mege, Franced
- Ozark, Shanghai
- Ozark, Beijing
- Ozark, Chengdu
- Ozark, Shenzhen
- Ozark, Lhasa
Do you know of any places anywhere in the world where we might present our exciting presentation during 2010 and 2011? Please get in touch and email: info@SummitClimb.com and info@SummitTrek.com. Thank you very much for all of your kindness and help to the families and environments of Nepal and Tibet!!! back to top Please send in your feedback about our new website, as we are always trying to improve the charity/non-profit information and wish to say hello to those who visit. Thanks! |