New audio update from TA on Everest.

This is the text of TA’s audio message:

Hi this is TA calling in from Kathmnadu, we just had a wonderful dinner at the Road House Café, which is a famous little pizza joint here, with the whole team.  Everyone ended up getting down today so Khalid, Yilmaz, Nasuh, Ade and Angel all got down the hill.  So it was nice to see everyone again, it’s been a couple of weeks for some of us.  My team, team 2, which are the guys that ended up above camp 2 for about 2 weeks looked very skinny and hungry today.  So it was great to congratulate them and welcome them back, and just have an nice evening together.  As for the crew here, we have had a couple of little field trips.  We went to Mikes Breakfast another famous Kathmandu site, and to Bhat Bhateni which is a supermarket department store, it is also where all of our food for base camp came from.  So we had a wonderful day there, wandering through the house wares and all that kind of stuff.  Yesterday I spent the day with my friend Maggie who is an American ex pat who has a wonderful home just south of Kathmandu in the rim surrounding the Kathmandu valley.  We went out there to enjoy the fresh air and see her peacock chicks, and her chick chicks, and her pheasants, and her garden and just to get away for the smog and chaos of Kathmandu.  We are welcoming the monsoon, we had a big rain here this evening which is great for cooling it down for the night.  I know for me I am a cold weather bear, I much prefer to sleep in the cold then in the heat, I sleep with no heat all winter, so sleeping here in 36 degrees with mosquitoes is a bit of a challenge.  We just continue to make it up day by day, we are currently scheduled to leave here on June 6th and arrive back in Canada on June 7th.  Hope you are having a great day, and hello from Kathmandu.

TA