Hi Laurel.

Thanks for writing. I hope you are well. I would love to work with you.

Here are a couple of items for your consideration:

1. As I have already climbed Ama Dablam 5 times and we have an excellent new leadership team for that climb, I might just trek with them to basecamp for five days and then move on to develop a new trip in a remote area.

2. The trip is a trek to the more remote Hinku Valley to climb Mera Peak, including a traverse of a high icy pass and a return to Ama Dablam via another valley behind it. So its kind of a grand circle.

3. After that, I plan to visit a health post we have been building in aid of4000 poor farmers who live with nothing in the middle of nowhere. It takes about a week to walk there and back. One (1) out of five (5) of their children die before age five (5). We are trying to help them with their medical situation so they can get back to work farming the land responsibly, and not migrate to the slums of Kathmandu.

I would be glad to phone you or send you emails as I travel through these places.

Dan