My friend is leaving on March 28th to climb Mt. Everast!!

**Logan** · 03-18-2004, 07:50 PM

This is exciting, Donna. I hope he is ready!! I read "Into Thin Air" and it was chilling and gripping at the same time. Don't read it right now, Donna, if you haven't ever read it. Save it for later. I have it and must say that I "enjoyed" it in the way that one might enjoy "The Passion of the Christ" in that it wasn't a touchy, feel kind of book.......but truthfully told about that perilous trip. I also saw the IMAX Movie, Everest, a few years ago (before I read the book) and was totally captured by it.

I wish he could do some kind of online journal or something so that we could know what is going on. Keep us posted as you hear news of his trip.

Logan

**moosmom** · 03-18-2004, 10:42 PM

Actually his story will be published in the Hartford Courant. I'll be able to pull it up online and share it with everyone. I am so excited for him. I'm also sad for his wife because he'll be gone for over 3 months. I'd be out of my mind if my hubby went to climb Mt. Everest and was gone that long. I'm SURE they'll be in touch somehow.

**RICHARD** · 03-19-2004, 05:27 PM

http://www.everestnews.com/

A great website for any kind of news.

**IttyBittyKitty** · 03-20-2004, 05:23 AM

Originally posted by moosmom
A very good friend of mine, an AWESOME photojournalist and writer, is leaving on the 28th of March to document a couple's climb of Mt. Everast!!!

Michael Kodas To Document Potentially Historic Everest-K2 Expedition

Courant writer/photographer Michael Kodas takes on the assignment of his life when he follows two Connecticut mountaineers on their quest to make mountain-climbing history this summer. Gheorge Dijmarescu and Lhakpa Sherpa hope to become the first climbers ever to reach the summits of Mount Everest and K2 in the same climbing season. Michael will accompany the husband-and-wife team and other members of the Connecticut Everest Expedition when they depart for the Himalayas on March 28. He plans to summit Everest as part of their team, then follow them in late June to the K2 base camp, where he'll continue to track their progress. Both Gheorge and Lhakpa have confronted the perils of nature before, Gheorge in his escape from communist Romania, and Lhakpa, in her ascent from third-world poverty.

I am SO proud of him! He and his wife Carolyn, adopted my cat Tucker.

That is such an awesome and cool thing for him to do. Wish him luck from us!!