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Blessings from Thame Lama

Barbara Wentworth
Hear the Team's Call from Nepal
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Hello, Mountain Zoners. This is Barbara Wentworth, physical education teacher at Magee Elementary in the Kettle Moraine School District.

We are on our Everest Trek '99 and we're glad that everyone is following us. The families of the fellow trekkers are also following this in South Africa, France and other parts of the United States, so you have good company if you're at the Zone. Yesterday was a really important day. We were privileged to have an audience with the Thame Lama from Thame and he was able to actually give us white scarves and we were given a blessing. And the prayer flags, which were signed by all the people in Wisconsin and in my school district and all the supporters and sponsors, [were] blessed also. Now I'll be carrying that up to Everest Base Camp so you can be assured that we did get our blessing, and it will be flown.

Today we trekked from Thame all the way to Thyangboche; it was a climb first descending for about 2400 feet and then of course we hit the river, and whenever you go down it means you have to go up. So we climbed again another 2400 or so feet and we are currently at about 13,000 feet. We are going to be visiting the monastery at Thyangboche and should get an audience, hopefully. Right now he's in meditation, so we don't know if we are going to be able to do that. So check in at the Zone again and thanks to all the sponsors and supporters for this trek because we're bringing back lots of information. Namaste from Thyangboche.

Barbara Wentworth, MountainZone.com Correspondent

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