Walk With Me in the Himalayas 2021
Challenge level: 3 out of 5
Challenge level: 3 out of 5
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| 4 November - 13 November 2021 | On Sale | |
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| Duration | 10 days |
Step up for mental health on our stunning trek through the Nepalese Himalayas.
Raise funds for the mental health charity of your choice as we trek from Pokhara to Poon Hill (3,210m) in six spectacular days.
Together, we’ll walk alongside streams deep in valleys, through enchanting forests bright with rhododendrons and into charming Himalayan trading towns and villages.
We’ll push ourselves to the peak for an amazing cause, while making friends and discovering the friendly culture of the Nepalese mountain people.
Once we reach the top of Poon Hill, we’re rewarded with a literal highlight of this challenge: watching the sun rise over surrounding peaks.
Our once in a lifetime challenge ends in Kathmandu with a special opportunity to meditate in a monastery: the perfect calm after our epic climb.
Walk With Me
Walk With Me aims to raise awareness of the importance of mental health and to raise vital funds for the amazing mental health charities and services across the UK that are here for us whenever we need support.
Walk With Me also aims to continue the conversation about mental health throughout the year - and indeed, our lives, to ensure that no one ever feels afraid to talk about their health and well-being and to seek support around them if they ever need it; whether that's simply to speak to friends or family or to make the most of the fantastic charities and services available.
COVID-19 - keeping you safe
As we hope you know, the health and safety of our participants is always - and has always been - our highest priority.
Our team of experts here at DC has created a brilliant 14-step initiative, to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety. Please click here to see our ground-breaking plan and rest assured that you're safe booking with us.
Worried about fundraising? Don't be...
Walk With Me is an Open Challenge, which means you choose how you fund your adventure.
You can self-fund and pay the challenge costs yourself without the pressure of a minimum sponsorship target; or you can choose sponsorship and commit to raising a minimum amount for a mental health charity or service of your choice. It's your chance to do something amazing for the cause closest to your heart; whether you choose to support your local practice or a national charity. It's completely up to you.
Places for this life changing trek are limited and likely to sell out really quickly, so please register soon to avoid missing out.
Cover your tour costs and the registration fee yourself and then choose to fundraise as much as you can for the Mental Health charity or service of your choice with no minimum target.
£1,800
Pay the balance
Pay a non-refundable registration fee and then commit to fundraising the minimum sponsorship target for a Mental Heath charity or service of your choice.
£3,600
Minimum sponsorship target
As we hope you know, the health and safety of our participants is always - and has always been - our highest priority.
Our team of experts here at Dream Challenges has created a brilliant 14-step initiative, to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety. Please click here to see our ground-breaking plan and rest assured that you're safe booking with us.
With even the government unsure how exactly the coronavirus situation will eventuate, we can't make any guarantees; but we can promise you that we will always put your health and security first and will always be just and flexible in any decisions we have to make, regarding postponements and transfers.
If the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises against travel to Nepal in 2021, the tour will either be postponed until a safer time or cancelled.
In this situation, we will email all participants registered for the challenge with options you can take, such as transferring to the postponed date or another challenge.
All tour operators and holiday insurance providers, including us, take our guidance from Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) advice. Dream Challenges is also proud to be a member of ATOL and ABTOT, which means your money is always protected.
Absolutely! As part of our amazing 14-step initiative to minimise the risk of coronavirus and maximise your safety on all our challenges we're delighted to have found a fantastic travel insurance policy, which covers you for COVID-19.
You can see the insurance policy here or click here to check out the full 14 actions we're taking to keep you safe.
As we hope you know, the health and safety of our participants is always - and has always been - our highest priority.
Our team of experts here at DC has created a brilliant 14-step initiative, to minimise the risk of coronavirus and reassure you that you're safe booking with us.
All participants will be sent free Travel Safety Kits with face masks, hand sanitiser and anti-bac wipes.
We're also enhancing our health and safety audits, including COVID-19 training for all event staff.
Sticking to the government and NHS advice, we'll keep two-metres apart wherever possible and depending on group size, trek in staggered waves to allow for greater social distancing.
Our accommodation and eating establishments will be required to pass COVID-19 hygiene and cleanliness checks as part of our health and safety protocols and have included COVID-19 mitigation as part of our challenge-specific route and risk assessments.
That's just to name a few of the inspired actions we're taking. Please check out our full 14-step initiative here and rest assured that we've got your back.
This challenge is not designed for Olympic athletes – it is designed for people looking for an amazing goal to train and get fit for. A number of the people who will take part in this trek will have a low level of fitness when they sign up. Our adventure trekking through the Himalayas is the perfect motivation to get fit and have the experience of a lifetime.
We'll have two UK qualified doctors and a group of fabulous first-aid-trained challenge guides accompanying us the whole time.
Please don't be! The majority of people will sign up on their own and our Dream Challenges are renowned for the amazing camaraderie and life long friendships made as our groups take on these incredible feats together.
Once you've signed up for the challenge, we'll send you a link to a private Facebook group for everyone registered for Walk With Me in the Himalayas. Please feel free to use this space to swap questions, advice and updates with your fellow trekkers on your training and fundraising. You may also want to reach out to the fellow participants in this group to see if there's anyone in your local area you can meet up to train and fundraise with.
Absolutely not! One of the amazing things about the challenge is that people of all ages will come together to do something very special. Everyone who is at least 18 years old by the challenge date is more than welcome to join this awesome charity trek.
You will of course need a pair of walking boots. We will supply you with a comprehensive list of everything you will need to take on the event well before your departure date.
We will stay in three-star class hotels, throughout this challenge except for on Days 3, 4 and 7, on which we'll be sleeping in comfortable mountain guest houses with amazing vistas.
We organise our accommodation on a twin-sharing basis, which is included in the challenge cost.
However, if you would rather pay for a single supplement (£200 per person, NOT included in your challenge cost) and have a room/tent to yourself, please get in touch and we can arrange this for you.
Yes of course! If you wish to extend your stay you will need to come out of our international group flights (and of course we would deduct the cost from your balance). It is not possible for you to come out of our internal flights to and from Pokhara.
In addition to paying your registration fee of £299 and either self funding your challenge costs or raising the minimum sponsorship, you will need to budget for:
You will need to take out your own personal travel insurance covering health, accident, loss and repatriation. Dream Challenges has a recommended policy, which we will send you details of. You can however take out your own insurance, providing it covers you for a charity trek in Nepal. You will need to apply for a visa to obtain entry into Nepal, we will send you all the relevant information and forms in plenty of time.
The Dream Challenges team are here to help you achieve your challenge and will support you all the way. We are on hand from the minute you sign up to answer any questions that you may have about your training or the challenge itself. Once you have registered, we will send you a realistic training programme to help you get fit for the trek. The programme builds up gradually as the challenge gets closer.
We also have fantastic first-aid-trained challenge guides, a group of porters and two doctors accompanying us throughout the challenge.
As we're not medically trained, we're afraid we can't offer you advice on this. We recommend you contact your GP or your local travel clinic, who will have the latest travel health advice.
We also recommend you visit the NHS Fit for Travel website here, to keep up to date with current travel health news and advice on staying healthy abroad.
NHS Fit for Travel website: https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/home
Your registration fee of £299 per person is used to administer the challenge and secure your seats with the airline.
Your challenge costs of £1,800 (ie. 50% of the fundraising target if you choose the sponsorship option) cover:
*Accommodation is included on a twin-sharing basis. If you would rather pay for a single supplement and have a room/tent to yourself, we can arrange this for you for an additional cost of £200.
Please email us at events@dream-challenges.com if you would like to do this at least fourteen weeks before the challenge starts.
