Hey Wom,

I'll be happy to send you one once it comes out. I told Michael I'd be second in line (behind his wife Carolyn, of course who also made the two trips with him) to purchase it and he promised me he'd autograph it for me.

The trash that's left behind on the mountain has recently become a hot commodity. Climbers will go up and retrieve empty oxygen bottles and all sorts of stuff then auction it off for profit. I somehow think it's tacky to profit on someone else's demise. But that's me.

I recently asked a man being intereviewed on a local cable show, who climbed Everest, how he felt when passing the bodies of climbers who didn't make it. He said at first he wanted to save them all, but realized it was unrealistic, as climbing to the top of the world is a life and death feat, and it's every person for themselves.