New audio update from TA on Pumori.

Sorry for the audio quality of this update...sometimes sat phones can be temperamental ;-)

This is the text of TA’s audio message:

Hi this is TA calling in from high above Namche Bazar.  We’ve had a great day moving up here to 3440 metres or so, a gain of about 600 metres.  Darkness is just beginning to come to the sky, there is a slight orange down the valley and the lights are slowly beginning to come on in Namche Bazar, and we are getting a view of our first few peaks in the valley.

I had a great day, I hit a groove.  It was wonderful to hit a groove, no headaches today, and I really feel like I’m in Nepal going up the valleys.  We’ve being moving very well today, which gets me very excited for climbing.

I was really thinking today about how altitude really teaches me about impermanence.  That you cant actually hold on to your acclimatization.  You had it your last trip and then when you go home you lose your acclimatization and you have to work to get it back wholly again.  So it teaches me not to try to force acclimatization, even though when your walking uphill, and your breathing hard, especially on the stairs in Namche, you wont let go of wanting that acclimatization and just being patient and allowing it to happen as your body adjusts.

Hope you’ve had a wonderful day we are all thinking about you and I will have more tomorrow.

TA

Remember, TA’s climb of Pumori is also a fund raiser for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.  TA is attempting to raise one dollar per metre of Pumori ($7161) during her climb.  TA is climbing Pumori in honour of her mother Denise, a breast cancer survivor and 100% of the money raised goes to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. 

So please take a minute and donate.  Click here  

https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/startup.aspx?eventid=21241 

to donate online or click here 

http://www.taloeffler.com

for a downloadable donation form.

Thanks for the support