Trekkers in #Annapurna, make sure you attend the FREE daily health lectures at @HRANepal’s #Manang 3500m health post. This season, 2 🇦🇺 volunteer doctors are on hand to deliver vital information about Acute Mountain Sickness & health in remote🇳🇵. While there, check your O2 levels
Australia has supported @HRANepal’s #Manang post since 2002. Marking 50 years of HRA’s critical efforts to reduce casualties in the Himalayas, in 2023, we provided medical equipment to #HRA posts in Manang & Pheriche. 🙏🏼 to HRA for your lifesaving services to locals & trekkers.
@AusAmbNP With great pleasure, we appreciate the Australian Embassy for your kind support to HRA aid-posts since a long time. We are so grateful for your visit to HRA Manang, Your Excellency!
The story behind the helicopter clip
A great save at Pheriche 4300m yesterday
A comatosed porter left alone in a tea shop is transformed with oxygen and Dexamethasone, kept overnight, walks to the helicopter and waves
He would have died if not for the HRA
Spring 2023 was the deadliest season on Mt Everest, with 17 climbers dead or missing on the world’s highest mountain. But the trail leading to the base of the mountain also saw record numbers of porters falling sick.
More porters sick on Everest trail https://t.co/rYweH8t6hX