Dear Friends and Family
Day 2 on the mountain and every one's strong. No headaches, no nausea, and good appetites all around. Sarah and I are particularly proud of the way everyone dealt with the challenges of the day: a day that started in brilliant sunshine and ended in pouring rain, and a day where 40 minutes of climbing turned into 4 hours. Rain is never nice but positive energy and preparedness turned the weather into a valuable lesson in self care. By evening our clothes were drying nicely on our makeshift clothesline in the mess tent and everyone had bits and pieces of damp clothing ready to take to bed with them (body heat is the only available nocturnal heat source!)
Meanwhile, Cheryl earned the first prize of the trip and was crowned "Queen Parka" for her intelligent use of her clothing "system." Neri continues to be the expedition photographer, and news has just arrived that the Skippy peanut butter has been found...peanut intact! Karen's lost luggage was dropped off at her tent at 5 pm thanks to the amazing feat (feet?) of a porter who picked up her bag this morning and did our 2 day trek in one day, an amazing display of fitness. We took our photos standing at 12, 621 feet under a rainbow. Happiness reins at New Shira Camp.
Our quote tonight was read by Laura:
"Real courage is risking something that you have to keep on living with, real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's cliches."
We go to bed knowing that tomorrow (day 3 of trek) we'll climb to 14, 741 feet before descending to 13,000 ft at our campsite. Altitude here we come!
Love from all,
Alison
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