Lucy is currently on VentureCo’s Himalaya Venture in India and Nepal. The 12 week Venture includes a development project in a village in Rajasthan, as well as an expedition, involving camel treks, tiger safaris, deserted beaches, mountain biking, rafting and the Everest Base Camp trek.

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Diary of a Himalayan adventure: Update Seven Lucy Child writes... "Having had a very successful trek to Everest Base Camp, we all arrived back in Kathmandu. After a couple of hours kip, everyone put on their team shirts and we had pre-dinner champagne in the Kathmandu Guest House garden to celebrate making it to base camp and back again in one piece. Dinner was at the famous Rum Doodles, a must for anyone trekking around Nepal, especially if you've done Everest as you get to eat for free. Included with the meal is a free cardboard foot which you can deface in any way you feel appropriate, so we thought that seeing as Martin is probably the least artistic of the group he should draw portraits of us. They were spectacular and I hope future Venturers check the foot out to see Martin's talent. The next few days were spent preparing for the last resort and the highest commercial bungy jump in the World at 166 metres! Finally the day had come. At 6am we left the guest house (wearing the team shirts) and took the four hour bus ride to the resort. Seeing the bridge for first time was stomach churning, the realisation that we would be jumping off a 200 metre bridge had suddenly kicked in... We were met by the bungy master (a big Nepalese man who looked way too chilled out for my liking!) who weighed us, the heaviest jumps first, and told us it was easy, just jump. Nicole was the first to jump and she sure did it in style and made it look oh- so-easy. The order after her was as follows; Will, the most scared, Martin, who screamed like a girl, Bethan, looked terrified, Lucy, wasn't sure why she was doing it, Hannah, loving it, Billie, way too chilled and Georgia, annoyed she had to go last. After the jump came the gorge swing, which is jumping off the bridge freefalling for eight seconds then swinging through the gorge. Only Martin, Nicole, Hannah, Bethan and Georgia did it but it looked amazing. The next day was canyoning, abseiling down seven waterfalls, one being 40 metres high. A lot of fun but not when the wetsuits came off and the leeches came out! The evening was a dance party, which we seem to start everywhere we go! Tuesday was a free day. Bethan, Martin, Will and Georgia mountain biked to the Tibetan border while the rest of us sunbathed by the plunge pool and had saunas in the evening. Wednesday was our last day and we all started the day with another bungy and a gorge swing, Billie and I decided we had to do the swing while Martin, Bethan, Georgia and Nicole did another swing and bungy. Hannah decided to only do the swing and not the bungy, hanging upside down was not on her to do list that day! White-water Rafting was though, which was great. The river is one of the hardest white-water rivers in the world, so it was amazing when it started raining as it made it harder to see what we were doing! Now back in Kathmandu, we are all preparing to travel on or go home and are feeling scared about both! It has been the most amazing experience of my life..." Click here >> for arriving in India Click here >> for taking part in Hoil and renovating classrooms Click here >> for camel trekking Click here >> for trekking in the mountains Click here >> for elephant riding in Chitwan National Park Click here >> for Everest Base Camp Click here >> for bungy jumping, white-water rafting and home Name: VentureCo Address: The Ironyard, 64-66 The Market Place, Warwick Click here >> for details of this placement Click here >> to see all of VentureCo's placements Click here >> to email VentureCo Tel: 0845 344 7523