19 Feb 2009 - Susmita and younger sister with Paddle Nepal
Susmita, who won Jackson kayak in the Peak UK White Water Challenge in november is getting best use out of it possible, getting more girls in Nepal into kayaking! She has now started teaching her own younger sister paddling on the lake in Pokhara. She has also quit Kathmandu based Equator Expeditions for Pokhara based rafting and kayaking company Paddle Nepal. Her sister also started working for them helping out in their lovely café at the office! Susmita just came back from working on a three day trip on the lower Seti, and the reports from new employer Paddle Nepal were excellent!
10 Feb 2009 - Radha and Pasang starts working for Ultimate Descents Nepal
The spring season in Nepal is now starting. Two of the girls from our training program just started working for the Kathmandu-based rafting company Ultimate Decsents as trainee river guides. Radha Tamang is currently on a Karnali-trip! Congratulations!
28 Jan 2009 - Nepali girls on the board of Himalayan River Guide Association
Good news from Kathmandu: The Himalayan River Guide Association had their Annual Genera Meeting yesterday. Six of the newly trained girls attended the meeting and Pasang and Sambhavi, two of the girls, also got elected into the board. I found it very good news as it means the girls are really involved in the guide association which will help in their own future as well as helping the guide association who is doing a lot of great work for developing the situation for Nepali River Guides. It was with HRGAN we organised the raft guide training program for the Himalayan River Girls.
Here are a couple of cool pictures taken at the Himalayan White-water Challenge
Sita claiming her prize at the Himalayan White-water Challenge.
Christie Glysmer
Susmita and the boat she won for coming first in the Nepali Womens Category of the Himalayan White-water Challenge.Photo taken by Christie Glysmer
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