the extraordinary trips people are doing

our trip although hideously daunting, and that expression isn't for effect, i am both daunted and quite nervous i have to say, pales into insignificance in comparison to what other people are doing. for example richard parks a welsh guy is climbing all seven summits, and going to the north and south pole in 7 months, when, if he makes it to the pole, he goes straight from here to kathmandu to attempt everest and on he will go until he does the lot. an ozzie guy is starting from the north pole traversing around to canada in 40 days then 2 marathons a day to run all the way to chile to then go to the south pole in the autumn of this year. the walking wounded team are going further than us and are already up there. they left in a mad rush the day before yesterday, they were the first to go, head of the queue. we are in a back log, a week long back log of groups going up basically in the order we all arrived.