After climbing forty eight vertical faces* with his trusty icepick in hand, wearing an oxygen pack for altitude, a helmet to protect from ice falls and dark glasses to reduce snow blindness in the Streamside crevasses**, our hero, supported by Sherpa Sharon and her crew, summits at fifty feet above sea level.
Helen, Sharon, John, Janine
We all have our 29,029 feet Everests to climb. And the Hillary Step was only one step - just happened to be a forty foot vertical rock face at 28,840 feet. Ah well, only another 28,783 feet to top that Everest too.
Today we visited our new apartment to measure up for curtains. Very exciting. Unfortunately the lift is not yet operating so I have had to go to the "Top of the Last Stairway" again (see Blog 17). We are on track to move in around the end of March.
* aka stairs or steps
** of new white paint in the stairwells
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