FEB-A-11
DECLINED INVITATION TO RETURN TO THE SAME NEPAL THAT
EVERYONE ELSE IS TRYING DESPERATELY TO LEAVE, TO LEAD THE CANCELED TREK
TO DESERTED LUKLA
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: "info@himalayanhealth.com".IA4GW.Harper
Date: 2/13/03 11:27AM
Subject: Re: Tibet
Even Gyalein is bailed out, desparately sending me notes to guarantee his own and now his wife's passage out of Nepal and assurance of putting them up indefintiely since he says the Maoists have closed the Lukla clinic and threaten to kill him if ever he attempts to come back to re‑open it. So, what would we be doing there? The patients cannot move around because of the curfew.
The dates Sep. 16 to Oct 6 are already filling in with other items as well, and would bump oinot the Sikkim trip.
Rarely would I cancel a trip because of instability in the area (after all, I just came from a Mindanao with US travel advisory restricting anyone going there, and moving about with a full platoon of Philippine Regular Army as a guard.) But, I saw the restricted numbers of patients we saw last year in Lukla (half were the soldiers garrisoned in the town to protect us) and had heard that things have got a lot worse since then, so I think it would be a waste.
GWG
SEE ATTACHED REPEAT LETTERS OF AMAZING PRESUMPTION ON SPONSORING IMMIGRATION FROM NEPAL INDEFINITLEY BECASUE OF THE MAOIST TAKEOVER AROUND LUKLA
Dear sir,
Namaste.How are you?Thank you very much for your email message.Regarding
your help with Sponcer Letter which address did you posted at Lukla or in
kathmandu?Until today i have not receive it.Regarding for the Sponcer Letter
for me i think the US Embassy they need your Bank Statment so i would like
to request you to send me your bank statment.Please please kindly send me
the Bank Statment and the copy of the sponcer letter by fax to this
address:Ngageljen Sherpa,Sona Futi Sherpa Fax no.0977‑1‑420010.
When i apply the visa at the US Embassy here i will apply for medical
treatment.So i need your help for sponcer letter for me for Medical Check up
of my hip.That willy easy to get visa.Thank you very very much for your
kindness help.Please let me know which address did you posted the sponcer
letter and when?Hoping to hear back from you soon.Sorry for my poor english.
Take care Namaste
Your Sincerely
Ngageljen Sherpa
Take good care Namaste.
>From: "Glenn Geelhoed" <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>
>To: <ngagyaljen@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: hi
>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:31:15 ‑0500
>
>Dear Nga:
>
>I had sent a handwriten letter and a typed letter of sponsorship already
>when your recent email came through. At the time you had written me, I
>did not know you were also planning to have your wife travel also, so I
>had made a request for you only‑‑but I am not certain whether that
>letter alone will do it as others have not.
>
>I had also sent your letter to Ravi Singh, and we have canceled the
>September visit to Lukla on the basis of the problems there which will
>prevent anyone from signing up for this trek.
>
>I hope you will continue to do well, and am glad you have got to a point
>where you can use email to correspond. The letter should reach you
>soon.
>
>GWG
>
> >>> "Nga Gyaljen Sherpa" <ngagyaljen@hotmail.com> 12/23/02 08:44AM >>>
>
>
>
>Dear sir,
>Namaste from Nepal.How are you and all your your family there.We are all
>
>fine here.Thank you very much for your last letter with the information
>of
>your visit to nepal.
>Not long ago i wrote you a letter which is request letter to help me and
>my
>wife a sponcer letter which me and my wife would like to visit USA in
>your
>country.I hope you dont mind my request.I will pay my airfair and other
>transportation cost.So i just need your help for the sponcer letter.Do
>you
>think it is possible to help me with this request?Please kindly write
>back
>or fax me at this nomber.Ngagyaljen sherpa C/o Dawa Zangbu sherpa
>Fax.No.0977‑1‑420010 Plan holidays Travel & Tours thamel kathmandu
>Nepal.
>My self and my wife we both are here in kathmandu.If you can help me
>with
>the letter that will big help for me.Becuase in khumbu i have problems
>which
>i mainton you in my letter.I am realy hoping to visit your country in
>May
>2003 if every things go well.With out your help i can not visit USA.This
>is
>all for today.I wish you all the best and happy New Year to you and all
>your
>family.Please take care Namaste.
>
>Your Sincerely
>Ngagyaljen Sherpa
>
>
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>>> Himalayan Health Exchange <info@himalayanhealth.com> 02/13/03 11:11AM >>>
I have received 6 applications for Lukla and two from Australia are in the
mail. After cancelling the trip. There was no way to pull the messages
back or to follow it up with a cancellation note. Would you like to still
do it.
Ravi
At 09:34 AM 2/13/2003 ‑0500, you wrote:
>You're on! You may have to carry me!
>
>Call and then come on over ‑‑I will be on the seventh floor of Ross
>Hall, and should be around x44428.
>
>We will compare UltraMarathon notes!
>
>Cheers!
>
>GWG
>
> >>> Matt Kimball <mattyboy9@yahoo.com> 02/12/03 11:24PM >>>
>Dr. Geelhoed,
>
> THat would be great. I am not sure where your
>office is, just let me know what is good for you. The
>whole reason I chose the Lingshed trip is because it
>is physically demanding. Although I live at sea level
>now, I used to live in Salt Lake, and ran in the
>Wasatch Mountains everyday. I ran a 50 mile trail run
>in Utah in the mountains last year. That is why I
>thought this trip was such an opportunity. To learn
>medicine, and be hiking in the Himalayas, you can't
>beat that. I would love to visit Everest some day,
>well when I can learn a lot more about mountainering
>and not be in school! Please let me know when is good
>for you. Our schedule is M, W, F from 8‑3:00, and
>Tuesday 9‑5:00. Thursdays I usually have class from
>1:30‑3:30. Please let me know when is good for you!
>Thanks,
>
>Matt Kimball
>‑‑‑ Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu> wrote:
> > Sure Matt!
> >
> > It is a requirement that I meet with anyone that
> > goes with me to
> > Lingshed, since it is a special trek which requires
> > a special
> > person‑‑and a very fit and hardy one too!
> >
> > I will be around, so see if you can set up a tiem
> > and place and we will
> > try for it!
> >
> > GWG
> >
> > >>> Matt Kimball <mattyboy9@yahoo.com> 02/12/03
> > 08:07PM >>>
> > Dear Dr. Geelhoed,
> >
> > Hi my name is Matt Kimball and I am a fisrt year
> > medical student at GW. I just signed up for the
> > trip
> > to Lingshed through Himalayan Health Exchange this
> > summer. I just wondering if I could meet with you
> > sometime to talk a little about the trip such as
> > what
> > you would recommend to bring, or not bring etc.
> > Although I know how busy you are so if you could
> > me instead that is great too. I hope I will get to
> > mett you sometime before the trip.
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Matt Kimball MS1
> >
> > __________________________________________________