An evening at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute (BUEI) will be dedicated to celebrating the results of a mission to raise funds for a kids charity.

Around 12 members of the XL Charity Challenge Team set out on a 57-mile, 14-day voyage on March 6 to climb Mount Everest, in Nepal and raised more than $170,000 for the Kathmandu Kids Club which helps needy children in Nepal and Uganda.

Team members from numerous branches of XL Capital Ltd. will be on hand on Thursday, June 5 to give first-hand accounts of the adventure.

The Club supports the Nepalese projects of the Bermuda-based charity The ISIS Foundation.

Team members include: Christine Doughty, Megan Kempe, Tonia Szeto, Roma Jedrysiak, Cherie Simons, and Roddy Gray (from XL's Bermuda office), plus, Lukas Ackermann (Zurich office), Richard Goodger (London office), plus two other Bermuda participants, Jennie Lee O'Donell and Nick Pewter.

Team XL eventually climbed to 17,600 feet and after the trek, visited one of the ten children's homes in Kathmandu supported by the ISIS Foundation and met some of the young people who will benefit from the fund-raising efforts.

The BUEI event will also include presentations by Audette Exel, co-founder of The ISIS Foundation and Claire Underhill, an ISIS Volunteer at the Kiwoko Hospital, Uganda supported by The ISIS Foundation.

"Delicious" Nepalese food and wine will follow the celebration.

The event begins at 5.45 p.m. with presentations starting at 6.00 p.m.

Tickets are limited and are available at the ISIS offices at 35 Crow Lane, East Broadway or at www.boxoffice.bm.

The cost to members is $50, and non-members $60.

All net proceeds will go to the ISIS Foundation.