I've got a lot on right now but I'll post about yesterday's events soon. Briefly though, it was an epic day, really tough but really worth it as we got equipment into the school at earthquake ravaged Simjung Village. You can get an idea of some of the terrain by the fact you can't even see the two trailing porters as they carried in school tables and benches... and these things were heavy, damn heavy, solid timber that will last for many years.
The second image is sobering. Had the earthquake occurred on any day than Saturday these kids would have been crushed, their school was turned to rubble.
But now they have a school again and thank you to everyone who is helping us with this. There's still a lot to do and another shake two days ago caused a lot of fear. However the resilience of these mountain kids, it puts so much in perspective.
My connection with Nepal goes back many years but there are two dates recently which have been pivotal, the meeting with the leopard Asa on 4 February 2014 and the 25 April first earthquake this year. In many ways the two morphed yesterday as we sat in a little school in the remote village of Simjung and talked of tiger, leopard, snow leopard and life in this incredibly important country, one of the great watersheds on our planet.
More soon...
