On arrival in USA there was a cargo handling dispute and all the samples were ruined. However it was a beautiful trek in an area that had only recently been opened to visitors. We passed relatively close to Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world. Little did expedition members realise that this mountain was to be the place of an avalanche which killed one of their members, Ginette Harrison, on 24th October 1999. A memorial lecture is held in Ginette’s memory each year, part of the Wilderness Lectures series. The event raises money for the Shiva Charity, of which Ginette was an enthusiastic supporter, and which sponsors a school in Nepal, named in her honour.