New audio update from TA on Everest.

This is the text of TA’s audio message:

Hi this is TA calling in from Everest base camp; I got back here just a little after noon, just in time for lunch.  Saying goodbye to Marian and Nadia was super hard as you can imagine, but they will be coming up to base camp in a few days with Leslie and Dan.  I took it easy, came up slow because I knew that most likely I would be heading up through the ice fall with my team tomorrow, to be in place incase there is a summit window.  So that is what is going to happen, I spent the afternoon resting, packing, and carb loading, and trying to get a little more protein in.  I have lost my appetite for base camp food, and I think my period is starting, and I might be getting a cold or something, so I’m not feeling the best.  Hopefully I can find the energy to get through the ice fall tomorrow.  I was saddened that one of my best buddies on the expedition, due to health reasons is calling off his climb, so that’s a hard bit of news for the day.  So all in all kind of a “sucky-do-day” here in base camp, but some days are diamonds some days are stone.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a diamond day, because I need it to be, its still pretty darn windy up here, but we are hoping for a window in the next several days.  I did another 3 more Signal Hills today, so I hope you all are Stepping up to the Summit Challenge, getting out there and getting some physical activity and recording it on the Recreation NL website.  Please send your thoughts, your prayers, your support, and lots of energy my way, I would love it.  Thanks and have a great day 

TA

Remember as TA heads up Mount Everest you too can be involved by taking part in Recreation Newfoundland & Labrador’s “Step Up to the Summit Challenge.” The challenge begins March 18th and continues through May 31st. RNL’s Small Steps, Big Results website allows individuals and teams to track a wide variety of physical activity by converting all to a number of steps.  Sign up your team for the challenge today at http://www.recreationnl.com/smallstepsbigresults.