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(23 May 2003)

Pangbochen School, Solukhumbu (Everest) region
1. Teacher banging rock on metal oxygen cylinder from the1953 Everest expedition (used as school bell)
2. Wide shot above, Mount Everest in background
3. Various shots schoolchildren playing in school yard
4. Pan interior classroom during lesson
5. Close up young girl writing
6. Teacher at blackboard
7. Various shots of schoolchildren
8. Photo of Hillary on wall
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barla Nanda, headmaster of Pangbochen School:
"The Himalayan Trust and Hillary have over the years continued to give help to this school and the area and has changed the students' lives."

Khumjung School, Solukhumbu (Everest) region
10. Wide shot school complex
11. Mid shot Peter Hillary (Edmund Hillary's son) with his daughter, Emily
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hillary, mountaineer and son of Edmund Hillary:
"Mount Everest was the catalyst, the thing that started everything. Of course he didn't know that but he kept coming on expeditions after climbing Mount Everest, looking for the Yeti and attempting Maklu without oxygen and he asked some of his sherpa friends if there was something he could do for them and they were unanimous. They wanted a school for their children and that's kind of a wonderful thing."
13. Various shots of Hillary talking with teachers
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Hillary, mountaineer and son of Edmund Hillary:
"I think I would like to see more climbers - people who come here and enjoy this country - put a little bit back in a way that I guess my father has with the Himalayan Trust."

Kunde
18. Wide shot Kunde hospital
19. Sign showing opening times
20. People outside queuing
21. Various people being treated
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Pulfrey, Canadian Volunteer Doctor:
"They have one of the best hospitals in Nepal perhaps, they have access to schools, the reforestation programmes is really great so I think it has impacted the lives of most people up here in a very positive way."
23. Various shots of children with measles being given oxygen

STORYLINE:

Fifty years ago Edmund Hillary and his expedition partner Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to stand on the world's highest peak, at a height of 8,850 meters (29,035 feet),

But Edmund Hillary left another lasting legacy in Nepal.

The Himalayan Trust that he subsequently set up has had a profound impact on the lives of the people living in the shadow of Mount Everest.

This school is one example.

Founded in 1963, facilities here are basic - teachers use an oxygen tank from the 1953 Everest expedition as a school bell, but the school's headmaster says education has transformed these children's lives.

Edmund Hillary's son Peter is in Nepal to raise funds for his father's charity, and visited the first school set up by the foundation.

Khumjung School was set up in 1961.

Its complex of buildings were donated by a Calcutta company and were airlifted to the mountain region by the Swiss Red Cross.

Peter Hillary told APTN he hoped it would serve as an example of how people who come to Nepal to climb, can give something back to the community.

In all the Himalayan Trust has provided 27 schools, 12 medical centres and two hospitals, including the Kunde hospital, for the region.

It has also funded the construction of roads and bridges and initiated a reforestation programme which nurtured, planted and protected 100,000 indigenous tree seedlings each year.


Still, 40 percent of Nepal's 23 (m) million people live in poverty, according to the World Bank.


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