Making a high-elevation difference in Nepal

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Making a high-elevation difference in Nepal

Gyankumar Rai, right, a Nepalese guide that Jim Sumrall hires regularly for treks, is with a client on a trail headed for the Nepalese village of Timang in March 2010. Sumrall and his wife, Karen, pay school tuition for Rai’s two children in Kathmandu.
Members of a trek led by Jim Sumrall unload baggage and equipment to be carried by porter in the hill town of Gorkha in Nepal in April 2000. The trek took participants over one pass 16,000 feet in elevation.
Jim Sumrall in east Nepal on the border of Sikkim state in India in October 2008. The word on his cap is Purgatory.

Making a high-elevation difference in Nepal

Gyankumar Rai, right, a Nepalese guide that Jim Sumrall hires regularly for treks, is with a client on a trail headed for the Nepalese village of Timang in March 2010. Sumrall and his wife, Karen, pay school tuition for Rai’s two children in Kathmandu.
Members of a trek led by Jim Sumrall unload baggage and equipment to be carried by porter in the hill town of Gorkha in Nepal in April 2000. The trek took participants over one pass 16,000 feet in elevation.
Jim Sumrall in east Nepal on the border of Sikkim state in India in October 2008. The word on his cap is Purgatory.
To find out more

Information about Jim Sumrall's upcoming trek in Nepal is at www.jimsumrall.com. Information about the orphanage he supports is at www.nepal.wwep.org. Sumrall also can be reached at 749-7525.