Students benefit from scholarship fund set up by Kanchenjunga pioneer

Himalayan Trust was established in 2013 by George Band, who climbed world’s third highest mountain with Joe Brown in 1955.

Dilli Limbu, a resident of Lelep Lawajin in Phaktanglung Rural Municipality of Taplejung, is a health worker. Limbu, 24, has been serving as an auxiliary health worker at a local health post for the past three years. After Dilli passed the School Leaving Certificate exam (now Secondary Education Examination) in 2013, his father wanted him to become a health worker.