The End: The Incredible Everest Expedition

This morning at about 8:00 in the morning we put Paul Fitzpatrick on a helicopter. A Nepal Army helicopter landed in the Base Camp and picked up Paul.

Paul rode the helicopter today with a bottle of oxygen in his lap and an oxygen mask on his face. He has pulmonary edema and pneumonia, which was diagnosed by the Himalayan Rescue Association Clinic doctors. He spent several days in the clinic in Base Camp trying to get better. And he did improve! Although, he still not strong enough to be able to walk out under his own power.

There is a national strike in Katmandu today, so there is no transportation available except for emergency transport, which is lucky in Paul's case because he'll be riding around in an ambulance. He rode the army helicopter to Katmandu where he's going to go to the Sewek Katmandu Clinic. They will take excellent care of him, I'm sure. We wish Paul all the best and we're going to miss him and hope he recovers well.

The rest of our team is trekking down to Namche today. OK, we're just packing up Base Camp now. That's the end of our SummitClimb Everest Lhotse Nepal Expedition.

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Bye Bye,

Dan Mazur