10 tel: 0845 330 8579 (local call rate, UK only) international tel: +44 1453 844 400 www.himalayankingdoms.com Rod Baber (see below) Dr David Bathgate Seraphina Berry Steve Berry Barry Bond Paul Burditt Chris Brightman Frank Cannings Catherine Darjaa Enkbold Darjaa Matt Dickinson Ray Dimmock Dr Chris Darby John Eames John Edwards Steve Findlay Alison Foot Mike Ford Dr Nicholas Foxton Paul Franklin Steve Harbert ‘M A’ Harper Bob Heffill Graham Hoyland Clive Hughes Ralph Johnson Ned Kelly Sue Lawty Jude Limburn Turner Sebastian Mankelow Dr Stuart Martin (see below) Bonny Masson Harry McAulay Stuart McNeil Dr Alastair Miller Niki Morgan Winky O’Neale Lindy Newnham Major Mark Perry, MBE Dave Pickford Gary Pfisterer Kev Reynolds Rupert Rosedale Michael Rutland, OBE Ann Sainsbury ‘Beetle’ Seymour-Williams John Shipton Dr Eamon Staunton Hugh Thomson Joy Thompson John Turner Moira Viggers Ian Wall Tony Welsh Cathy Woodhead Our trek leaders The European leaders’ role is described on page 3. Our leaders have, between them, led hundreds of mountain treks. Collectively they represent an enormous fund of knowledge. Of our panel of Leaders below, some lead for us regularly every year, while others lead for us less frequently. For detailed biographies on our trek leaders, please visit our website: www.himalayankingdoms.com Rod Baber – Himalayan Kingdoms Trek Leader Rod set an unbeatable world record making the highest landbased mobile phone call from the summit of Mount Everest on 21st May 2007. He also holds another unusual world record – he has climbed the highest points in each of Europe’s forty seven countries. He is an inveterate traveller, having been to over sixty countries worldwide. He owns and runs a climbing centre/aerial adventure facility near us in Cirencester. The Dr. Stuart Martin treating a local village woman Photo: Steve Berry

11 tel: 0845 330 8579 (local call rate, UK only) international tel: +44 1453 844 400 www.himalayankingdoms.com a bruise on the world map from which the eye just cannot escape, yet its gigantic mass is young in geological time. A mere 20–40 million years ago the tectonic plate of the Indian sub-continent swung upwards into the soft belly of Eurasia. The Tibetan plateau, itself the size of Western Europe, was uplifted to an average height of 4,600m/15,000ft, and the perfect crescent of the Greater Himalaya, 1,500 miles long, was formed. Marine fossils found in the rocks of the highest peaks prove scientific theory that the ancient Tethyan Ocean was trapped by the collision and its sea bed thrown miles into the air. is the most extraordinary geographical feature on the surface of our planet, Col. Jimmy Roberts Colonel Jimmy Roberts was the ‘father’ Himalayan trekking. An officer in the Gurkhas, he started his Himalayan climbing in 1937 and lived in Nepal from 1962 until his death in 1997. His first commercial trekking group was to Everest in the spring of 1965. We still use his excellent company, Mountain Travel Nepal, formed 1964. His memorial fund (administered by the World Pheasant Association) supports half a dozen schools in the Seti valley. We are pleased to be associated with the project and have raised considerable funds to support these schools. Himalaya