Thank you to Mera Peak Group, Globotrek Switzerland, who made a donation of £1695 which will go towards the Gokyo project.

Full financial reports for 2011

Thank you to Julie Courvoisier and her group from France, who kindly donated a new stethoscope, sphygmometer and some medication to the rescue post (see photo). And thank you to Dr Nima who donated his surplus medical supplies when he had finished his season and was very generous with his help at Gokyo. Thank you [...]

Post-monsoon 2011 report

The latest report (august 2011) from Kilimanjaro Porters Assistance Project: KPAP Data Summary Report.

Mi Chacra, an award-winning documentary film, chronicles a year in the life of a porter on the Inca Trail. The film follows a young indigenous Peruvian man and his family, and was shot on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, in the Andean village of Mullacas, as well as in the Sacred Valley of Peru. [...]

Each year in Nepal, mountain porters suffer serious illness or die carrying loads to enable Western visitors to enjoy the mountains of Nepal. As part of their work in the Gokyo Valley, IPPG and Community Action Nepal (CAN) are constructing a porter shelter in the Gokyo Village, where porters frequently have to cook and sleep [...]

Many thanks for the following recent donations: £354 from Plas y Brenin Christmas raffle – thanks to the Diploma in Mountain Medicine Theory 1 course (UK) £350 donation from Dr Andy Tomlinson (UK) Without the help of our donors, IPPG could not exist!

Machermo and Gokyo pre-monsoon (spring) 2011 report

IPPG-UK, thanks to the efforts of Emma Mason, is now a registered charity.