Alive

I'm now sitting at 1,200 meters breathing the oxygen-filled air of Kathmandu. I am hereby the first person to ever write the words "oxygen-filled" and "Kathmandu" in the same sentence.

I made it back from Mt Everest-Advanced Base Camp without a scratch. There is going to be a lot of material about this coming up with pictures, video and {gulp) actual narrative. In short, it was breath-taking, literally and figuratively, inspiring, intense, slow, and the most demanding thing not physically, but mentally, that I've ever done. All of these things together produced the most difficult week I've ever undertaken in my life. I haven't had much time to digest everything yet, but the emotions of the week have me a bit choked up as I'm writing this because I'm realizing that it is over.

Anyway, for the good of the order, I'm in Kathmandu for a few more days and will be back in San Francisco on June 1st after a quick stay in Bangkok. Thanks for all the comments and emails that I've received from all of you. Please continue to send burnt offerings to to the gods because I think that walking/driving on the streets here in Kat is more dangerous than climbing Everest.

Talk more soon (with pictures).