I was checking the various Everest blogs in the morning to see how my friends are doing - there are 7 or so still climbing.
I was stunned to read that my friend Juan Polo had died after reaching the summit in the previous 2 days.
Juan was a Spanish doctor living in Teneriffe. He joined our small group in Kathmandu and we travelled together, shared the dodgy hotel rooms and ate the same appalling chinese slops as we drove into Tibet and lingered at Zhangmu, Nyalam, Tingri, basecamp then up to ABC.
Juan was friendly, cheerful, quick to smile and totally enthusiastic about his attempt to climb Everest.
I'm sad that we will be unable to swap notes about Everest and his climb.
RIP.
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