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Thank you Forest & Salisbury Journal for supporting our #northcol21 & #everestchallenge2021.

Fantastic to see work now going ahead on two new Artificial Glaciers, restoring water lost due to global warming to Lamayuru and Zomal villages in Ladakh, thanks to funds raised by Lotus Flower Trust.

A lovely video of the boys at Winchester College documenting their #northcol21 Mallory Challenge from start to finish...

John's epic 30,000 ft virtual climb to Everest is now complete! No mean feat when you are more than 80! Congratulations John! Friday, 24th September, was also 100 years on from Mallory's journey to the North Col and to mark this, more than 500 boys from Winchester College ran a collective total of 4,400 km…

Check out John’s BBC interview about the #everestchallenge2021 on the Alun Newman Breakfast show on BBC Radio Solent.

21,000 ft and counting!

Please continue to share and support 80 year old John on his uphill journey to raise funds for children and communities without water in India for Lotus Flower Trust.

oday we launch Lotus Flower Trust and Winchester College's Mallory North Col and Everest Challenge to raise funds for 3 projects in India…

This amazing drone footage of the Chaudhary Kanya Higher Secondary School in Mankua Village, Moradabad, shows what terrible conditions more than 600 children endure as they attempt to gain an education to break the cycle of poverty.

All our schools, including those in Ladakh, have been closed until further notice due to the second wave of Covid in India. We have been in touch with our colleagues in India and many have friends and family who are ill. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of India at this time as they struggle with this terrible virus.

This video shows just how remote some of the places we work in are! Here you can see local Ladakhi builders passing 90 cement and sand bags across the mighty Indus River using a cable trolley, also known as 'The Flying Fox'.