tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86161230670745821572011-04-21T12:07:44.112-07:00Justicenoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616123067074582157.post-44055635304100189892008-10-05T08:37:00.001-07:002008-10-05T09:19:43.975-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjo8JGE3AI/AAAAAAAABlM/PAdHl7d-T1w/s1600-h/intota.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253705085258882050" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjo8JGE3AI/AAAAAAAABlM/PAdHl7d-T1w/s200/intota.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjoyobaoZI/AAAAAAAABlE/Sj-cNo9zbBY/s1600-h/gipfelbild.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253704921871196562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjoyobaoZI/AAAAAAAABlE/Sj-cNo9zbBY/s200/gipfelbild.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjoqOTct-I/AAAAAAAABk8/_4a9IPGsklY/s1600-h/mapIndiaNepalChinaCIA.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253704777419503586" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjoqOTct-I/AAAAAAAABk8/_4a9IPGsklY/s200/mapIndiaNepalChinaCIA.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjog8GskGI/AAAAAAAABk0/3aTv04zJVEM/s1600-h/Doug%2520Scott.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253704617915355234" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w_c-XHm8Khc/SOjog8GskGI/AAAAAAAABk0/3aTv04zJVEM/s200/Doug%2520Scott.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/24/newsid_2538000/2538093.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/24/newsid_2538000/2538093.stm</a><br /><br />The cold was intense. I couldn't feel my feet at all, and the hairs in my ears felt like icicles. I was getting snow-blindness and had great difficulty keeping my eyes open. The wind roared all around us, sounding like an express train in a tunnel.<br /><br />Slowly we moved upwards until we saw the top. Even though every bone in my body ached, I felt as happy as I have ever felt in my life. We had finally reached the one place on Earth where you can truly say, "The only direction is down!"<br /><br />Even with the wind nearly blowing us off our feet, we looked around in a 360 degree vista, looking into China, back into Nepal, and on the horizon, the glow of India, hundreds of kilometres away. I even thought I could see the azure blue of the ocean - the Indian Ocean, but I think it was my snow-blindness playing tricks with my vision.<br /><br />With a splitting headache but my heart full of joy, I finally stepped down from the summit of Mount Everest, knowing that I would never forget this moment - never in a million years.<br /><strong>Robert L. Fielding</strong></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8616123067074582157-4405563530410018989?l=whathappenedonthedayyouwereborn.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Justicenoreply@blogger.com0