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.