This is just a short note to let say that I am back in Kathmandu and I don’t think I have ever come back from the mountains so quickly. After having come down from Camp II on 27 May in the morning, I just had a shower, wrote the newsletter for Himalayan Experience, which you can find here and relaxed for the rest of the day, thinking that I would be at base camp for another two days. The next morning, however, we helped pack the barrels, the boys dismantled the White Pod and all of a sudden Russell said that we should hurry up to get to Pheriche to catch the helicopter to Kathmandu. And here I am…back in the madness of the Nepalese capital trying to let it sink in that I have just climbed the fourth highest mountain in the world – a mountain I never thought I would reach the top of – and I am feeling good about it.

I will elaborate more on the expedition once I have settled back in but in the meantime, I would like to thank Russell, his guides and first and foremost his hardworking Sherpas to make this expedition to Lhotse possible. I had a great time and I am already thinking about the next adventure.
More soon!
Hallo Billi, gratuliere Dir recht herzlich, Bravo
Bis dann!
Awesome Billi, well done! So proud to have you as my friend!
Yahoooo Billi!! CONGRATS!!
Billi, you rock!! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Gratulation, Du Superweib! Ich freu mich mit Dir. Dickes Bussi!
so wundervoll – so bewundernswert – zum niederknien schön !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!! Ganz großen Respekt!!
Congratulations Billi! Looks like you did it in style!! Looking forward to hearing all about it… xxx