I’m So Glad I Went!
These were Soren‘s first words as he talked to me about his one week blitz visit to Lura and the villages of the Gyamdanda Community Forest, in the area below […]
Happy Everest Anniversary To Me, And To Us!
Yep. Eighteen years ago! I would love to locate Dorje Sherpa and Kipa Sherpa, who were with me on the summit on 27 May 1997, before the 20th anniversary in […]
The Season of No Everest
22 May 2015, Natimuk. In five days, it will eighteen years since I was on the top of Everest. Where was I, on 22 May 1997? 26 May arrive […]
When a Natural Disaster Becomes Personal…
Knot in the stomach. There has been another earthquake in Nepal, then another, this time both much closer to home: Lura. No direct news yet, just second hand information, devastating. […]
Helping Nepal..
Thank you to the ABC National Radio for letting me share the following interview (with Rohan Barwick), part of a program fundraising for […]
Lura Earthquake Update
Thanks Soren! From: Soren Kruse Ledet Subject: Lakpa Date: 27 April 2015 2:40:21 pm AEST To: Brigitte Muir <brigittemuiroam@icloud.com> Hi Brigitte – According to Parbati (also from Lura) Lakpa & […]
Beyond the Smile, Tears.
I started work on the Beyond the Smile story line. As I arrange my index cards into the backbone of the story, Heart wrenching news of the earthquake in […]
Taking Time To….
10 April We are going to Bali, to the North Coast, to the sea and the mountains my Hawaiian husband misses so much in the country of the sky. It […]
Next post on its way…
I was going to finish it and post it today… Computer said no, I listened. Now is about being here, at Gaia Oasis, for a few more hours before the […]
Druzhba ( Friendship)
I met Vladimir Balyberdin when we went to the USSR in 1990, just before the collapse of the Union. Vladimir had an outfit called Alpinist. He organised our trip […]
Beyond the Smile 