Nepal

[nightfighter]

No, she was not going to summit, Paul S.

As of this afternoon, my brother said she was emailing different relief groups trying to get in with them to provide any assistance. The group that she was going to Everest with has more immediate problems as they already have clients up on the mountain. He said there were at least one hundred in her group scheduled to climb in the next week. She wants to work in the world health field, so I understand her desire to get in there. But she has to get in with a relief organization first IMO. We will see how this plays out. She is awaiting word on whether she gets into med school as she has found that you wont get taken seriously in the field without an MD. She has worked in South American hospitals, so some third world experience in addition to graduate school at Columbia. I give this background as she is not just some dizzy young girl who wants to save the world.... That said, I still made my opinion known to my brother, that I would rather see her on her way back stateside.

Paul I, last time I had the pleasure of "visiting" we came at night (surprise, surprise) in a C 130. You know it's a special place when you can smell it in the fuselage on approach. The disparity between the rich and the poverty that the other 99% live in was worse than what I saw in South Africa in 1980 during Apartheid... (but SA is one of the very few places I was sent to that I would go back to now)