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Here's where you'll find the most up-to-date information about what's happening at Mountain Kingdoms. Check below for details of any upcoming events we are holding, any special offers we are running, any news we've got to share and any holidays that have spaces and are due to run in the next few weeks. You can also sign up to receive our monthly e-newsletter.
IT Schools Africa - recycling our old monitors
We've recently updated our office equipment and are pleased to have donated our old computer monitors to a charity - IT Schools Africa.
Read moreNiki's sponsored litter-pick raising funds for Nepal
A huge well done to Niki for her sponsored litter-picking last week. Not only did she spend the morning picking up litter in Wotton-under-Edge, where the Mountain Kingdoms office is based, she also spent the afternoon picking up litter in her home town of Chepstow.
Niki's story was featured in the Chepstow Beacon, you can read the article online. Niki is raising money for SHIVA charity, with donations going to the Ginette Harisson School near Kathmandu in Nepal.
Competition winners announced
During January and February we ran two competitions, each with a prize of a £100 Cotswold Outdoor voucher. Congratulations to the two winners!
Read moreSponsored Severn Bridge Half Marathon
Mountain Kingdoms' Responsible Tourism Mananger, Niki Morgan, will be running the Severn Bridge Half Marathon this August to raise much needed funds for one of our chosen charities in Nepal. Niki will also be doing a sponsored litter pick.
If you would like to sponsor Niki's race/litterpick, then please make a donation on her Just Giving page.
Read moreA new bridge for a new year - Zanskar twig bridge finished!
2014 has got off to a great start at Mountain Kingdoms - our twig bridge project in Zanskar is complete!
Over the past 5 years Mountain Kingdoms MD Steve Berry has raised £3000 to restore a traditional twig bridge in Padum and preserve an ancient culture. The project was overseen by the local King Punchok Dawa.
Zanskar is a small Tibetan Buddhist kingdom located in Ladakh, north west Indian Himalaya, and locked away from the outside world by snowed-up passes for all but a few months in the summer. Work has taken place on the bridge in winter when the river below is frozen and conditions can reach -30oC.
Now completed, it is an extraordinary structure which can be used by locals and trekkers alike. The twig bridge will form part of a new Mountain Kingdoms trek in Zanskar in September 2014. Kingdom of Zanskar Trek
Read moreCome & meet guide book writer Kev Reynolds
Winner of the Photo of the Year Competition 2013
We had hundreds of entries for our 2013 Photo of the Year competition. The standard was high and we have enjoyed looking through them all. Our favourites were featured in our 2014-15 brochure, but we needed help to select the winner of the competition. We opened up voting to our clients, and, in the last couple of weeks, you have been busy voting for the winner. We are now pleased to announce that the winner is......
Read moreExpedition vehicle for sale
After many thrilling adventures in his Landcruiser (including France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Kashgar, Pakistan & India - and winter driving in Northern Norway!), Our MD, Steve Berry, is selling his trusty expedition vehicle. If you are interested, please contact Steve on 01453 844400, or email steve@mountainkingdoms.com.
Introducing ‘Raja’, the office elephant
This summer we have been running an elephant naming and colouring in competition, and the winners have now been voted for by all of the office team.
Read moreElephant competition - entries now in
We've had about 200 entries in for our elephant colouring and naming competition. We've decorated our office windows with as many as we can, and have lots of people stopping to take a look at all the wonderful talent our local school children have. They really have been creative; it is going to be difficult to decide on a winner. Meanwhile, our wooden elephant carving is still on board the ship sailing to the UK….