Monday 6th June, Ottawa

Gabriel (and Sean) reach the summit of Everest

Congratulations to Gabriel Filippi who reached the summit of Everest last Monday, May 30th around 10:00 am (Nepal time). Gabriel left a kada (a scarf blessed by a monk and worn by the climbers) on which he had written 1942-2005, in memory of Sean Egan, on the summit.  He also inserted Sean's ashes in a small pocket and Sean is now where he always wanted to be – on top of the world.

Return safely, Gabriel.

Those readers living in and around Ottawa will be interested to know that Terry Kell is speaking this Thursday, June 9th, at the RiverEdge event in Almonte on the Everest expedition. Terry will be taking a display of the expedition gear and some of the prayer flags.  The talk is in the Town Hall and starts at 8pm. All are welcome.

More details on the RiverEdge events are available at http://www.riveredge.ca/index.php?action=cms.schedule.

The Ad Astra web site, with the objective of raising $150k to build a new school in Kathmandu in memory of Sean, will be launched shortly and announced through this email distribution.

This started as a series of blogs reporting the progress of the Kanatek Everest expedition. The database will now be used to keep people informed of our progress toward completing the school in Kathmandu. We hope that you will continue to follow our progress but you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link below. To view previous blogs, pictures from the expedition, or to get more details please visit the expedition web site at http://www.kanatek.com/everest.