Well, I have been updating the blog daily with news and photographs, but it seems from here in Kathmandu that the updates are not showing on the blog, so hopefully this one will work!
All is Ok, and we all arrived safely in Kathmnadu, Kathy was at the airport with our sherpas to meet us and we transfered to the Hotel Shanker, which is an old palace and a really wonderful calm place to stay. Ed had lost his luggage thanks to Thai airways, but it arrived a day later and really that was the only problem we have had. Sandy had his meeting with the Ministry of Tourisim yesterday and our permits for Island Peak and Ama Dablam have been issued so we are all set to go. Ewan, Ed, John and Kambiz have been on a city tour and enjoyed being guided round some of the local sights. Sandy and Kathy have been busy organising loads and equipment and doing all the necessary admin required to get the final stages of the expedition organised. The plan is to fly to Lukla tomorrow where we load up our yaks and porters and then walk to Namce Bazzar the sherpa capital. There we will get internet again and can up date the blog agin, but that may not be until the weekend..After that we leave the internert and phone lines behind, however Sandy will be making Sat phone calls to Hannah and Eunice back in the west to deliver phone reports which will be put on the blog. I do apologise for the fact that over the last few days no blogs seem to be appearing on the site, but we have been posting them with photos so I assume they are lost somewhere in cyber space.
Anyway, we have an early start tomorrow and hopefully the flights will get in to Lukla, today all flights were cancelled due to fog in Lukla, but today has been really nice in Kathmnadu so hopefully the fog will be gone, and the mountain passes clear and it will be good to fly.
All the expedition group are well and in good spirits, so please remeber that no news is good news, and we will post an update again by the weekend!
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