Last Night A DJ Saved My Life announce Himalayan expedition for charity

Music industry charity Last Night A DJ Saved My Life has announced a Himalayan expedition taking place in November next year. 

The organisation will run a 13-day trek across the world’s tallest mountain range, culminating in the “highest full moon party” to ever take place – 4,919 metres above sea level at Lake Tilicho.

The project, which is run in collaboration with The Tribe Experience, aims to support more than 27,000 young women in Nepal by raising money to complete the Girls Learning Centre in Devchuli, the latest phase of Nepal’s Girls’ Empowerment Programme (GEP). 

A DJ competition was launched ahead of details emerging about the trip, inviting submissions from female artists interested in playing at the high-altitude event.  “Seeing the global women-in-music community step forward like this has been incredible,” said Last Night A DJ Saved My Life founder Jonny Lee. “We’re blown away. The passion, the purpose, the desire to climb for a project that empowers girls, it’s deeply moving and exactly the energy this mission deserves.”

News of the Himalayan project follows a sold-out screening of the documentary Ain’t No Mountain High Enough. The film follows Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’s 2018 trip to Kilimanjaro, Africa’s biggest mountain, with proceeds going to a children’s home in Tanzania.  

You can sign up to take part in the adventure here. 

Earlier this year, Turkish DJ Burak Yeter set the world record for the highest-altitude music performance ever after becoming the first musician to DJ in the stratosphere, as part of his groundbreaking One Day In Space project.