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Thank you

A few days have passed and we should all be fit and well by now.

The time is right, I think, to says a little something about our team.

First Barry and Guy:

I am immensely grateful for their friendship and support. 

This has been a real team event starting with training over the winter, our wonderful "calm" team suppers, the planning meetings and the magnificent work in organising the trip and puling in the sponsors. 

Pat, Lucinda, Hazel, Suzanne and all of Jodie's family and friends have been simply wonderful. 

It is the sponsorship and the difference it will make which makes it all worthwhile.

but it's the love and care of our families that made it all possible.

The trek will never be forgotten, the people, the smells, the sights, the sounds, the magnificence of the mountains, the bizarre and fascinating world of Base Camp, the never ending exhaustion of the run its self.

The rest of the "foreign" runners, our wider team, all different, but all with the same view of the world; it's here to be relished, to be swallowed whole, any-thing's possible and it's worth giving it a go.

Finally Jodie, real bravery, grit, and a joy in life it's self. 

This was no walk in the park, there were real risks, 3 people including one Sherpa had to descend because of Pulmonary Oedema and all of us experienced AMS to different extents.

Jodie is a fitting Ambassador for others who live with Cystic Fibrosis and she's a delight to know and I'm proud to call her my friend.

Gorak Shep 5190m

You won't believe how exasperating this is.
We haven't had email or phone communication  for 3 or 4 days.
We are now one stop and 2 nights from base camp and 4 nights from the run.
Our lack of communications has nothing to do with a lack of love on our part.
This is a blackberry generated email and it's in responce to my first batch of hospital emails since coming to nepal.
There is no agreement between any provider in nepal and T mobile.
So this is a miracle and is probably thanks to a chinese mobile transmitter on everest!
We are all well.
Various bouts of diarhioah, mild AMS symptoms, mild hepertension but we are in excellent spirits.
The surfaces we will be running on are awfull so stability safety and efficiency are our watchwards.
Anyone who says this is a run downhill will get decked
I can't wait to get to Namche Bizarre and our first of many pints.
We will try again over the next few dfays but love you lots and can't wait to get home love stephen
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These are just a few photos to wet your apetite for the deluge that will come on our return.

Our final day in Nepal begins

So a great recovery day yesterday.
By the pool in the Shanker hotel.
There were many Everest beers drunk but at one point I went off to bed to get out of the sun and slow the alcahol intake.
!8:30 came and we were off to Rumdoodles, a terreace restaurant in the middle of kathmandu.
Some story about a man climbing a bigger bigest mountainand Yetis !!
Almost all the foreign runners were there and it was an excellent night.
This morning I packed early beacuase a couple of us are going to visit the kids hospital.
Our plane this evening is 21:30 local time to Abud dabe then manchester.
We then get a train from manchester to see families that have been much missed.
Photos and videos to follow.
All our love
Stephen