Visuals for you!

Radhika, the mother of the Gottathar village showing me what they have done in a month. I don't know if you can tell the quality... but trust me... it is amazing! These women didn't know what to do with a knitting needle a month ago!! I can't stop beaming about this!

My knitting class from the landless community. Fortunately our teacher, Dilmaya on my right, is from the community... so I don't have to be around for it to continue.

The most rewarding part of me week is teaching these girls basic sewing skills.

I am spending my mornings in the studio editing the film, and in the afternoons I go to the orphanages! This is my favorite thing. The girls are so excited to see me. Even though I have only been to some of the places once, they remember my name and exactly what I taught them. They are super beginners, but I am having them repair the clothes with me rather than practice on the strips of fabric. The clothes I repair are in such bad condition, I know it would only cost me a few rupees to replace them... and if I had a machine (I hand stitch everything) I could do so much more, and such a better job. What I am doing is making things wearable. I don't even worry about holes. We are talking entire inseams undone, etc.



Because the internet is so dodgy...
you are going to have to be satisfied with images
rather than brilliant prose about our little trek to Everest...
The airplane that landed on (arguably) the shortest runway in the world!

Amazingly cool glacier behind me!

Me and a Didi in Dole, Nepal

The Malaysian team that was off to summit... stayed in our guest house in Gorak Shep

Dennis and his son Dan from Zimbabwe and Canada.
(Dennis has summited a couple times)

Our new best friends, Floor and Tim, from The Netherlands

Me in a glacier!

Namche... the most beautiful of the villages (in my opinion)

My new friend in Thamel