The Mountain Fund Blog

If you've travelled to Nepal, and fallen in love with its people, and have a desire to help them, now you can. The Mountain Fund has a visitor center in Kathmandu that assists people in finding an appropriate place to volunteer, and supports them while they are volunteering....

The Social Development Centre Nepal has been in effect since 2006. It's a small home for orphans, and half-orphans (single parent invalid or not capable of caring for the child), located in the Kathmandu neighborhood of Khusibu near Naya Bazaar. ...

February 2008: The Mountain Fund and its Trek4Good program are proud to announce an exciting new partnership with Adventure Engine. Adventure Engine is an online administration suite providing everything from reservation programs, inventory management systems, merchant accounts, e commerce solutions, and marketing and distribution programs to adventure...

The Mountain Fund's
Moving Medical Camp in Kathmandu, Nepal

October 2007:

"Greetings from Kathmandu. The rainy season has gone on about a week longer than it should so it is hot in Kathmandu and will probably be warmer on the trek than I expected as well. I've had...

Zack Martin died just before his 25th birthday on Thanksgiving Day 2002. He was a recipient of American Alpine Club grants, the Anatoli Boukreev grant and others. Zack was concerned about the general arrogance and self-serving aspirations of climbers and explorers.

His climbing resume reads like...

Introducing a new program of The Mountain Fund called "Art4Good"!

Our new program, Art4Good, is an online gallery created for the purposes of showcasing our members' talents and raising funds for the projects we support.

Our gallery includes images from some of the world's...

At least twice a year, "The Mountain Fund" travels to Peru. And during the past six years, we've had the pleasure of forming a personal friendship with our Peruvian guide, Yure Chavez. Yure has been guiding in Peru for over twelve years, and we highly recommend him for your trips...

Kathmandu, Nepal
Oct 28, 2007

The October 11-24, 2007 "Moving Medical Camp", organized by The Mountain Fund , in cooperation with "Karing for Kids - Nepal" served over 1000 patients in seven villages.

The 25 member medical team...

MountainSearch.org will donate half its advertising revenue to The Mountain Fund

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain communities in developing countries are expected to receive significant supplemental funding each year from MountainSearch.org, a new search engine launched today through a strategic partnership between http://www.SearchEngineCorp.com, a custom...

About Carbon Offsets:

Fact - We all emit carbon dioxide emissions when we drive, fly, use electricity, or generate waste.

Solution - Now you can actually invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects that reduce carbon emissions. So on the...