About Us
‘Seven Summits Women Team’ came together to scaled Mt Everest a decade ago. Despite various socio-ecomoic challenges and widespread ridicule for being ‘an over-ambitious female team’, ‘First Inclusive Women Sagarmatha Expedition,’ become the most successful female mountaineering mission to climb Mt Everest. All ten members of the team made it to the top in May 2008.
Following the Everest expedition, the team members founded ‘Global Inclusive Adventure Organization’, a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered with the government of Nepal. In a decade long journey, GIA launched it’s flagship mission ‘Seven Summits Women Team’ which in 2014 became the first female group in the world to climb the highest peak in each continent.
In April 2015, a massive earthquake shook mid-hills of Nepal where Maya Gurung’s home district Sindhupalchok was worst hit. Maya and Shailee have ever since been leading program for the recovery of schools in her remote village (Read below: The B Project). Besides, they also train young female survivors of sex trafficking helping them become trekking guides.