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Day 6, which also happened to be Canadian Thanksgiving, saw the group of travellers split into two for a brilliant day of hanging out with the students. One group headed way, way uphill to try to catch a glimpse of Mount Everest, while the other joined senior-school...

(Today we hand the blog over to Mary Kaye from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation, to describe day 5: our first visit to the Zeke O’Connor junior school in the morning and the senior school in the afternoon.) Honored. Humbled. Bursting with joy. Allison, one of our...

Day 4 saw us head out early from the hotel in Phaplu hotel for the hour-long drive to Mopung, where the principal of Zeke O’Connor School has his ancestral home. Principal Lhakpa Sherpa was kind enough to host our group and a couple of the ZOC teachers. On the way, we...