I'm sitting here in my favorite chair hitting the refresh button over and over again hoping to see news of Paul's summit bid.  Paul was instrumental in me being able to send updates from Everest.  I followed his climb last year and have been following it again closely since I returned to Canada. 

I hope the winds stay down and he's having a good climb.  All body parts are crossed and I'm glancing frequently at the prayer flags I have hung around the house.  I'm sending out blessings and energy for a safe climb and return.

My last teammate summitted last night.  In the end it seems like seven of us had to turn our backs to the mountain at some point in the process and 15 summitted (plus all the sherpas for a total of 37 summits this year for IMG).   Folks are starting to trek down and they are beginning to dismantle basecamp.

I did a newspaper interview today that will be published in the Telegram either tomorrow or Thursday and spent several hours seeing colleagues and sharing stories from the mountain.  Having had more chance to speak aloud about the experience, I'm already feeling more articulate.  Felt physically some better today but I'm starting to grasp how much muscle mass I lost on the mountain.  I went out to get some new pants for a corporate presentation I'm doing on Thursday and the new ones were 3 or 6 sizes smaller depending on how one is supposed to count those things.  :-)

Hope you enjoy the latest instalment of pictures.

TA