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Luanne Freer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Everest base camp medical \u201cEverest ER\u201d will be on the mountain in April 2010 for our 8th season (!)\u00a0 As always, we offer services to base camp climbers, support staff and trekkers-through in support of our mission to prevent and illness at high altitude and to use proceeds for care from non-Nepalis to subsidize free or low cost health care for our Nepali friends.\u00a0 The 2010 staff will be comprised of myself, Lakpa Norbu Sherpa (our faithful logistics coordinator,) Dr Steve Halvorson, and Dr. Peter Hackett, longtime HRA volunteer and world renowned altitude expert (and Everest summitteer!) will join us for the month of May.\u00a0 We plan to carry out a research project aimed at answering a plaguing question a high altitudes everywhere \u2013 what\u2019s the ment for high altitude \u201cKhumbu\u201d cough?<\/p>\n

The HRA-USA, the nonprofit org set up to fund this , has done so for the past 8 years (the $100\/climber season \u201cinsurance\u201d donation we collect from non-Nepali climbers doesn\u2019t come close to covering the expenses unless ALL CLIMBERS sign up.)\u00a0 But this nonprofit can\u2019t continue to shoulder the expense for the future\u2026it is time that the costs are spread fairly throughout basecamp, and that we find a way to make sure that without outside support, the will be around for years to come.\u00a0 HRA-USA is happy to continue to recruit volunteers and fund development, but the day to day operations need funding from the climbers who benefit from the service.<\/p>\n

We have appealed to Nepal\u2019s ministry of tourism to either 1) create a separate mandatory EBC permit for all non-Nepali climbers or 2) use a small portion of the climbing permit fee to subsidize the operational fees so that everyone supports the and keeps fees low, but we\u2019ve seen no progress yet.\u00a0\u00a0 Because we can\u2019t continue to subsidize the forever and want to be sure it will endure on it\u2019s own,\u00a0 last year I let the HRA and ministry know that 2010 is the last season that HRA-USA will pay the operations costs.\u00a0 I\u2019ve told the ministry that if they don\u2019t come up with a way to subsidize the (again, all we need is $100\/non Nepali climber out of the climbing permit fees?) then there will be no in 2011.\u00a0 We\u2019re asking the expedition community to help us out \u2013 when they go to apply for their permit, we\u2019re asking them to put in a plug for paying a fee for the and to mention that the is a big advantage to climbing on the Nepal side.<\/p>\n

Wishing you all a happy new year, see you on the rockpile, and thanks for your support!<\/p>\n

Luanne<\/p>\n

Luanne Freer, MD
\nFounder\/Director, Everest ER
\nwww.EverestER.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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