nepal – Meet the Millers

The Miller 6 are headed to Nepal for April 2026! We are attempting the ambitious 3-passes trek in the Khumbu region with highlights including Everest Base Camp (17,369ft), Kongma La Pass (18,084ft), Cho La Pass (17,612ft) and Renjo La Pass (17,594ft). We begin our adventure with 4 days visiting schools in the villages of Jubing and Kharikhola where Sierra has spearheaded a project to distribute 340 handmade pencil pouches stuffed with school supplies and over 200 handwritten notes from students across the United States.

Sierra posing with some of the postcards written for her pen pal exchange project. This project is part of earning her Silver Award for Girl Scouts.

We will have a guide and 3 sherpas for our group of 6. Safety will be our highest priority and we are prepared with a full med kit, backup plans, and evacuation/medical insurance. Recently our experienced and professional guide has informed us of a potential closure of the 3rd pass, Renjo La, due to unstable glacier conditions.

We hope to post updates along the way but are not sure what our internet connections or device charging options will be like.

Our baggage for the month. Left is clothing and gear. Center are 340 stuffed pencil bags in boxes. Right are our day packs with essentials and water.

Here is our anticipated path and itinerary (labels are approximate days on the trail):

https://www.tripline.net/trip/2025_Nepal-161372743026102582FDAB0A303773E2

This link is our daily itinerary in Google earth, best viewable in a desktop browser (labels are approximate dates):

https://earth.google.com/earth/d/18zTNGPadnwh7BKOWIiMAprXKsPnuRJYN?usp=sharing

We look forward to sharing this adventure with you through blog posts and some videos! We encourage you to ask the kids questions about their experience when we return. They will be completing a daily journal with the help of a daily writing prompt and recording and plotting certain data such as altitude, steps achieved and specific oxygen.

Hello! You should hear about what we are doing when we go to Nepal in April. It is really an inspirational project! We have raised over $3,000 in 3 months to buy 3 smart screens for 3 schools we are visiting in the Khumbu region. The schools have 350 students ages 5-18. We are also making over 350 pencil pouches with school supplies and necessary items that they might need.

Sierra and Aurora sewing bags in an assembly-line

Each pencil pouch will have a blank post card that the student can send back to the USA and hopefully become a pen pal with one of you who wrote a postcard to a student. If you would like to write a postcard please ask for a blank card from us or send us your own card that you have written so we can get it to a student. We will need to receive all of the cards to take with us by March 31.

We are so excited to visit the students in April, see the 3 smart boards that we have purchased in action, and share our experience with you when we return.

Thank you for your support!