Group photo taken by our trek leader, Joe Pilaar at Dughla on April 14, 2000.

Put your mouse on the picture to see a photo of our guides Lol, Dev, Raj Kumar (our sirdar), Santosh and Jagat. Missing from that photo are Pemba (climbing Sirdar for the Island Peak climbers) and Kuhl.

Back Row, starting left: Indra (cook), Mick (Kansas), Kuhl (guide), Ken (Toronto), John (Toronto), Monika (Toronto), Lisa (California), Jagat (guide), Sara (London), Danielle (Milwaukee), Lol (guide), Anne (Calgary).

Front Row: Monalisa (Geneva), Santos (guide), Raj (head guide), Bob (Milwaukee), Dev (guide), Ron (Edmonton), George (Toronto) , Melissa (Wisconson)

Missing from the photo above: Celeste (New York) she signed-up for the Everest Hilights trek which ended at Deboche...but she was with us in spirit during the 2nd half of our trip and Joe Pilaar, our fearless leader and climber extraordinaire from Toronto

Many thanks to Michael Dudeck and Joe Pilaar of Canadian Himalayan Expeditions for making this trip the fantastic success that it was. Much thanks should also go to all the staff in Nepal. I hope I don't miss anyone in this list (apologies for misspelled names)

Chris Beall - operations manager in Kathmandu
Keshab Joshi - O.A.T. support staff in Kathmandu
Raj - trekking sirdar
Pemba - climbing sirdar
Indra - head cook
Lal - climbing guide
Santosh - climbing guide
Kuhl - trekking guide
Dev - trekking guide
Jagat - trekking guide
Ramesh - kitchen staff
Amrit - kitchen staff
Vikas - kitchen staff
Gancha - kitchn staff
Prem - kitchen staff
Kumar - kitchen staff
Nabin - kitchen staff
Sarku - kitchen staff

..and special thanks to all our porters, there should be an Olympic category for their amazing physical feats of endurance

© 2001 George Wang