Manaslu

Climbing the Seven Summits (CTSS)/TAGnepal provided world-class expertise and logistical support for a second year in a row in connection with my attempt to become the oldest American to summit Manaslu, including solving a multitude of issues that kept me on the mountain until COVID struck, forcing me to end my effort scant days before a deadly avalanche ended further team efforts to summit. More specifically, CTSS/TAGnepal initially timely sourced and replaced all my high altitude gear and the prescription medication needed to keep me not just functional but alive that had been in a duffel bag that was "lost" in transit and only "found" 9 days later, after I was on the mountain. My transit to the mountain, which had been delayed by weather and other factors, was "magically" fixed when quick-thinking TAGnepal and CTSS climbing staff members utilized personal connections to arrange helicopter flights otherwise unavailable for a variety of reasons - at any price. Finally, the prescription medication needed regardless of whether I would've stayed on the mountain or not was acquired and hand-carried, then hand-delivered to me at Basecamp after a single phone call, the failure to have done so instantly ending my trip and potentially endangering my life. CTSS'S/TAGnepal's support did not end once I contracted COVID on the mountain, ending my summit bid. I was personally accompanied at every step of my evacuation and had subsequently personally arranged for me all necessary medical care when I arrived in Kathmandu and thereafter. My convalescence was continuously monitored multiple times daily until I was finally able to be released for travel, at which point all necessary arrangements for my seamless transit home occurred, being checked and rechecked beforehand to ensure no glitches and no "issues" anywhere along the way. I can say without any reservation that CTSS/TAGnepal not only saved my trip and the potential of summiting at least 6 different times before COVID finally ended it but that they potentially saved my life by getting me prescription medication that, if not supplied in a timely manner (which it was), wouldn't have just ended my trip but left me optionless at a time when no possibility of helicopter evacuation existed. You can pay a company for services but you can't pay people to do what CTSS/TAGnepal did for me. Thank you my friends. In my book, I owe you my life and that is a debt I can never repay.