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International Women’s Day 2025: Honoring Our Friday Teachers

This year, in honor of International Women's Day, we are celebrating our incredible SGT Friday Teachers!

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Happy Losar, Year of The Wood Snake!

May the Year of The Wood Snake bring you and your loved ones abundance, prosperity, and happiness. Losar Tashi Delek!

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AHF Funding Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to Fight TB and H. pylori

AHF is funding the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for two separate, and timely, projects serving Himalayan communities.

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In Their Hour of Need: Thame Emergency Response

Back in August, AHF supporter and alpinist Kevin Sánchez was deeply saddened to learn about the tragic destruction following a glacial flood in the Sherpa village of Thame.

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2024 AHF Infamous Annual Dinner

Thank you so much to everyone who made the 2024 AHF Annual Dinner a success!

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Because it's there.

On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to be the first to climb Everest. One hundred years later, narratives about Everest are still haunted by the question of whether Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit.

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Happy Losar – Year of the Wood Dragon!

Welcome to the year of the Wood Dragon, 2151 in the Tibetan calendar.

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Postcard from the Field #7

This is the seventh and final installment in a series from Tom Hayes, the cowriter of Richard Blum's memoir which focused on Nepal and AHF. As Tom and the team depart Mustang for Kathmandu, they take an unexpected but spectacular detour above the Kali Gandaki Gorge.

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Postcard from the Field #6

This is the sixth installment in a series from Tom Hayes, the cowriter of Richard Blum's memoir which focused on Nepal and AHF. Tom arrives in Mustang's largest village, Lo Manthang and discovers the magic that drew Richard to the area decades ago.

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Postcard from the Field #5

This is the fifth installment in a series from Tom Hayes, the cowriter of Richard Blum's memoir which focused on Nepal and AHF. We continue our travels with Tom on horseback through Mustang, making his way to the region's second largest village.

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