Sixty years of projects
Every project we have mapped across Solukhumbu. Filter by programme or decade, then tap a pin to see the project.
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The second phase of Himalayan Trust's menstrual health programme, scaling up from three schools to eight across Solukhumbu in 2026.
Himalayan Trust Nepal's third five-year education programme in Solukhumbu, launched in 2025 with New Zealand Government funding.
A 2025 pilot bringing menstrual health education, reusable products and training to three Solukhumbu secondary schools and their communities.
The original 1961 Khumjung schoolhouse, turned into a museum of Himalayan Trust history that opened to the public in 2023.
A five-year Himalayan Trust Nepal education programme across Solukhumbu, training teachers and funding scholarships, co-funded by the New Zealand Government.
A water and fire-hydrant system Musey villagers began building themselves after the 2015 earthquake destroyed their tank, finished with Trust help in 2019.
The Trust's district-wide school rebuild after Nepal's 2015 earthquakes, known as REDSS, rebuilding classrooms across Solukhumbu to a safer standard.
An education fund the Trust launched within hours of the 2014 Khumbu Icefall avalanche, still supporting the children of the Sherpas who died.
A community-led drinking water and fire-hydrant scheme built in Lukla in 2014, the Trust's first new water project since the 1960s.
A water reservoir built for Khunde village in 1991, twenty-eight years after the village was first piped water.
A middle school Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust built in Kharikhola in 1986, now a comprehensively supported Centre of Excellence school.
A health clinic in the Rai village of Bung, Solukhumbu, built in 1985 after a Bung local, Sir Edmund Hillary's own cook, asked him to.
The Himalayan Trust school in Khumjung was upgraded to a full high school in 1982, later absorbing two neighbouring village schools.
A health clinic the Himalayan Trust records at Gumila in 1980, the same year as the village's school.
A Himalayan Trust school serving the villages of Sano Gumila and Thulo Gumila, rebuilt on its own ground after the 2015 earthquake.
A Himalayan Trust health clinic at Junbesi, a Solu village three hours' walk above Phaplu on the old trail to Kathmandu.
A Himalayan Trust outreach health clinic in Thame, Khumbu, destroyed by a glacial flood in 2024 and now being rebuilt.
The Himalayan Trust's second hospital, built in 1975 at Phaplu in the Solu valley.
An existing airstrip at Phaplu that Sir Edmund Hillary's team lengthened in 1974 and 1975 to support the hospital he was building alongside it.
A high school Sir Edmund Hillary helped build in Salleri around 1973, whose scholarship students went on to run the Trust's two hospitals.
Sir Edmund Hillary's 1971 school at Loding, rebuilt after the 2015 earthquakes and now known as Pike Secondary School.
A small Solu village school built by the Himalayan Trust in 1971, now known as Goli Basic School.
A footbridge in the Hinku valley east of the Khumbu, built by the Himalayan Trust in 1971.
A school Sir Edmund Hillary promised in 1970 after a dangerous pass crossing into the remote Rolwaling valley, outside Solukhumbu.
One of Sir Edmund Hillary's original Solu schools, built in 1970 and now known as Chandra Jyoti Secondary School.
A village school built in Solu in 1970, damaged in the 2015 earthquakes and rebuilt by the Trust the following year.
A school Sir Edmund Hillary built in the Solukhumbu village of Pangkongma in 1970, later merged into the neighbouring Kharikhola School.
A footbridge on the trail between Junbesi and Ringmo in the Solu region, built by the Himalayan Trust around 1970.
A water supply the Himalayan Trust built for Tengboche in 1970, the village that is home to the Khumbu's most prominent monastery.
A water supply the Himalayan Trust laid for Phortse village in 1968, a year after the village got its own school.
A school Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust built in Phortse village in 1967, four years after neighbouring Pangboche's.
A footbridge on the trail below Tengboche monastery in the Khumbu, one of the bridges the Himalayan Trust built in the region during the 1960s.
The Himalayan Trust's first hospital, built in 1966 in the Khumbu region at the foot of Mount Everest.
The Himalayan Trust's school in Tengboche village, built in 1965 near Tengboche Monastery on the main route to Everest, later closed.
A school the Himalayan Trust built in 1964 in the Solu Valley village of Junbesi, now Junbesi Secondary School and still growing today.
A Pharak valley school the Himalayan Trust built in 1964, now Mahendra Jyoti Secondary School, rebuilt after the 2015 earthquake with Swiss and Trust funding.
A school in Namche Bazaar, credited to the Himalayan Trust's 1964 building season and now known as Himalaya Basic School.
A bridge over the Bhote Kosi, built during the Himalayan Trust's 1964 building season in the Khumbu.
A bridge over the Dudh Kosi built by Sir Edmund Hillary's 1964 expedition, later destroyed more than once by glacial floods.
Sir Edmund Hillary's 1964 airstrip, built to fly in hospital supplies, that grew into the main gateway for the entire Everest region.
A pipeline reaching Khunde village is recorded in 1963, laid in the same season as neighbouring Khumjung's own water supply.
A 1963 pipeline carried Khumjung's water down from the sacred mountain Khumbila to a new reservoir built in the village.
A school Sir Edmund Hillary built in Pangboche village in 1963, funded by a US$52,000 donation from World Book.
A school built by the Himalayan Trust in 1963 in the village of Thame, part of the northernmost region of Khumbu.
The first of Sir Edmund Hillary's three Sherpa airstrips, cleared in 1961 in the Mingbo valley.
The first school Sir Edmund Hillary built in Solukhumbu, completed in 1961 - the start of the Himalayan Trust's aid work.