MELBOURNE, 28 May 2025: Saving Mt. Everest – the highest peak in the world, is the need of the hour along with protecting the world’s environment to plug climate change. This was the sum up of an largely attended and informative ‘International Everest Day’ celebration at Victoria’s Parliament today amid Nepalese community members and the Deputy Premier of Victoria, and prominent influencers among others.
The powerful message to save the environment with focus in Mt. Everest reverbated in Parliament corridors.
The ‘International Everest Day’ celebrated each year by the Federation of Nepalese Community Associations of Australia (FeNCAA) saw a informative powerpoint presentation on the subject by Bhola Giri on environment, climate change and the urgency to save Mt. Everest from the vestiges of ecological degeneration engulfing planet Earth. The slides pinpointed the reasons for this dangerous situation hurting millions of years of evolved Earth life, with no other visible or evidenced alternative in the Cosmos.
Jen Wills, Mt. Everest summiteer in her remarks to the gathering detailed her thrilling experience climbing the highest point in the world. What one feels when one is near the summit and how one feels during the return was heard in attention. Getting to the summit is not possible, she said, without a Sherpa.
Dr Raju Adhikari, founding president FeNCAA , and MC kicked off the function by introducing the ‘International Everest Day’ being promoted by the Nepalese government as the ‘Everest dialogue’ and the FeNCAA campaign to raise awareness and weave Australia and the Nepalese diaspora in it.
Welcome remarks were by President FenCAA, Bom Yonzon, and addresses by the Deputy Premier,Ben Carroll MP, the Hon. Consul General of Nepal, Niranjan Gouli, Enver Erdogan MP, Minister for Corrections, Victim Support, and Youth Justice, Kathleen Matthews-Ward MP, Member for Broadmeadows and the Chair of the Parliamentary Friend of Nepal, and Jog Limbu, founding member among others.
The Nepal Consul General, urged Victoria’s Premier to also visit Nepal, when she goes for a visit to China this year end.
He was also enthusiastic about the rising bilateral relations between Nepal and Australia and mentioned the big Nepalese Diaspora making vital contribution to the country’s socio-economic enhancement.
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