New audio update from TA on Everest.

This is the text of TA’s audio message:

Hi this is TA and Angel calling in from camp 1, Angel is just having a lovely little siesta before he heads off to camp 2.  I’m a little bummed at the moment because I realize that I forgot my ipod so it is going to be a long night, but then again it was a big day so I might just pound the ZZZZ’s.  I was able to get here to camp 1 because of my guardian angel Angel, he showed up at the exact right moment to give me a hand and get through a hard spot.  After a little while with his wonderful pacing my body remembered how to go up hill and low and behold 7 hours after leaving base camp I arrived here at camp 1.  I’ve been hydrating, having a little lunch of some soup and that will be my continued plan for the rest of the day, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.  It’s a little tempting to walk to camp 2 but I think I am going to split the journey into two days.  I will get up early and finish my 3 or 4 hour slog up the Cwm in the early morning hours.  Its great to be here, its also hard to believe that I made it here, the first two hours today where some of the most miserable in my mountaineering experience, but once I found a little bit of leg strength (Angel said he would lend me some if I lent him some brain), got some rhythm on board it did get a little easier.  So I will sign off, I’m safely through the ice fall, thanks for all your thoughts and prayers today, catch you from tomorrow, bye 

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.

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