Hiya all, this is Chris calling in from a small internet cafe (1 computer) at Namche Bazar in Nepal. We made our way up here from Lukla and even though we’d love to send you many many more updates, we are currently stuck with a satellite phone that doesn’t activate, resulting in less than optimum connection to the outside world. We are trying to work with the sat phone provider to get this fixed, and at the moment we are waiting for them to get back to us with a solution. Let’s all keep our fingers crossed that this will work soon.

Other than that, we are all fine after a massive hike yesterday that brought some of us at and beyond the limits of what they had ever before. Including yours truly. This is an amazing experience and we all wish we had more possibilities to share things with you all.

Let’s hope for the best.

Signing off.

Namaste!
Chris

One more day and I’ll leave for Frankfurt, and on Friday we fly out to Kathmandu. During my 4-week absence Ravsitar the Release Pixie will do what he loves doing: take care of releasing things to you on this site. But as a last official update from myself, here’s the list of links for your Everest Trek following pleasure:

Start here:
The best place to start with is our Netvibes page. It contains our live satellite map (see our location in real time!), Twitter streams, pictures from the trek, participant blogs and more.
» Everest Trek all-in-one Netvibes page

Taaaaaaaaa-witter:
If you live on Twitter, we have set up a Twitter user that you can follow. We will post updates there and also use the associated TwitPic stream to post pictures that will also end up on Twitter.
» Everest Trek on Twitter: @everesttrek2009

Cool-looking widget for your site:
Check out the Everest Trek Live Widget! You can easily place it on your own page, no matter where it is. It supports regular blogs, Facebook and many more systems.
» The Everest Trek Live Widget

Live Moving Satellite Map:
You can also place the live moving satellite tracker map on your own page using this embed code:
<iframe src="http://geekvault.no5.at/blogloc/gmap.jsp?user=restofeverest" width="320" height="190" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

The Original:
Then there’s obviously the original page that started it all. Go here to find a lot more background information on the trek (and maybe get your mouth watering for the next one :))
» Everest Trek 2009

All TFTTF posts about the Everest Trek:
And last but not least, here are all the posts (and audio episodes) on Tips from the Top Floor that I made around the Everest Trek
» Everest Trek Category on Tips from the Top Floor

Alright already… enough!

And here’s another one - a live tracker that will update our position on this map every 30 seconds, so you can truly follow along. And no, you can’t zoom in on the satellite image and actually see us hike and wave up at you

Right now the tracker is with Jon in Colorado and it is switched off, which is why nothing is moving. You can expect the pin on the map to start moving when Jon is at Denver airport on May/1.