From Varese to Nepal, night in an oasis at 2800 meters

“Pikey lodge and restaurant” our oasis in the mountains this evening…

Leaving at dawn on two jeeps, we left Kathmandu behind us towards the municipality of Okhaldhunga, where we gave an interview to the local radio founded by “Okhaldhunga Nine Hills” (Vanessa and Carlo for “Nepal nel cuore ODV”, Paolo for “School for a better future ETS” and Ngima).

After a toast with black tea, we continued the journey facing the most difficult part of the road and finally reached, after 12 hours, our oasis at 2800 meters

Carlo Fiori, among the coordinators of the Il Millepiedi Social Cooperative, is one of the participants in the new solidarity journey led by Ngima Sherpa, he tells us about this new adventure that we will follow in a sort of “Nepalese Diary 2024″.

Ngima Sherpa has been wearing it for years several hikers, some of them from Varese or Varese, one step away from the highest peaks in the world in his native Nepal (HERE is the series of articles entitled “Nepali Diary”).

Ngima is 56 years old, Nepalese and has lived in Varese for almost 20 years with his family, wife and four children. He is the president of “Okhaldhunga Nine Hill Association”, as well as managing the “Unlimited Sherpa Expeditions” agency. For a few months he has also been president of the “Nepal nel cuore ODV” association.

Together with his association based in Nepal, he organizes various types of trips. With this group of solidarity walkers will cross villages and places where few hikers have had the chance to arrive, taking advantage of a significant and important opportunity. Through the help and charity of many individual friends and associations Ngima and his collaborators have managed to do a lot: four schools, an orphanage, long-distance adoptions, an underground tank of drinking water, a crematorium, two clinics, a clinic for hygiene and sanitation for women, a delivery room, solar panels, a fireplace, a stove, two decks, a radio and much more.

This year the group that is preparing is made up of 10 people who, through word of mouth, savoring a Nepalese dinner, participating in a Tibetan bell event, have entrusted themselves to Ngima and his “Nine Hills” staff to travel this journey together.

For those who want to know the realities Ngima Sherpa deals with, here are the references: www.ninehills.org.np, www.unlimitedninehills.com, Facebook (https://it-it.facebook.com/pg/www.ninehills.org.np/posts/?ref=page_internal), contact details “Nepal in the heart ODV” ([email protected], [email protected], 329-4439236).