24 hours before we board our flight to Kathmandu

The final gear has arrived. -29C black diamond guide gloves, slings for the ice axes and the clever 'tree trunk' special merino wool underwear delivered with actual birch 'tree seeds' for users to go and plant a tree anywhere they like, cool concept, love it.

This morning last endurance training with tritons triathlon club at Disney. 1 'airport lap' of 55km with Stuart, Ross, Nick. Great camaraderie with the group. A lot of them will be racing the Taiwan half-ironman beginning on November while we will be climbing.

And finally we found our Italian coffee pot to take on the expedition, nice coffee guaranteed even at 5000m base camp!