Dear All, It is great to hear you are all doing so well, sorry to hear Tom and Sundeep are suffering from tummy bugs and hope they recover soon. We have been following your progress daily and are delighted to read the porters and support staff are doing a grand job, they really are impressive people. Not long until you reach base camp. Keep safe and best wishes from Charlie and the team at Far Frontiers Expeditions

Hi Babe, all good here. BIG changes to the house already!!! ha. Mum and Dad go back monday, all my crazy welsh lot coming today. Following the main team blog as nothing on yours this week. Didnt win lottery but still dreaming. Missing you loads and Poppy isnt happy you have gone away for long time. Patrick great, he has his first shoes but not yet walking. Keep warm and safe. Love you lots the Swifties x x x

Thinking about you alot. Everyone is very interested in your progress even in Canada. David following blogs and passing on to Auntie Joan and Uncle Alan.Granadad says "If you can't be good be careful".Lots of love Grandma and Grandad x x x

Some thoughts to take with you Matt

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it reality. T.E. Lawrence

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain-tops are within reach. John Muir

The mountains will always be there, the trick is to make sure you are too. Hervey Voge

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. Rene Daumal

Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity. Gaston Rebufat - and teamwork Paul Hing

Good luck to the team

Paul and Sylvie

Hi Darren! Well, now I'm not being a spaz I'll leave a proper message....
First off - Are you nearly there yet? and Can you see my house from there?
But seriously, take care, enjoy every second and hope you achieve all you set out to do.
Thinking of you, Glyn Soo and Captain.
P.S Get a sherpa to give you a bunk up if you need ;0)