Billi Bierling*Billi is due to summit on May 21 according to the latest entry on her online journal.
Apparently she left base camp early on May 17 and has arrived safely in camp 3.
The final push towards the mountain's peak - all being well and the weather holds up - is scheduled for May 21.
You can catch the updates and news on her and the rest of the team here.
Billi's team has apparently been split into two groups for the final ascent, and appropriately enough she's been put in the first one - named the Yaks.
Apt because anyone who knows (and loves) Billi will be more than familiar with her ability to gabble away 19-to-the-dozen, thereby proving herself more than capable of living up to the other definition of the word.
Mind you, she's not exactly alone in that respect.
Before Billi left base camp she made an entry which - how to put it? - revealed maybe some aspects to climbing that many of us would probably never have thought about: namely how to "pee into a bottle".
Apparently it's a "must" in conditions when you really don't want to have to "answer nature's call" by venturing outside of the tent.
It'll appeal to anyone with even a smidgeon of that infamous British "lavatorial" sense of humour (although German, Billi spent more than a decade living, studying and working in London and speaks accentless, idiomatic English) and as with the rest of her posts makes more than compelling reading.
So while I'll be joining many here in Europe in taking the day off tomorrow (it's Ascension day and a public holiday in a number of countries, including France) I'll also be keeping a keen eye on Billi's blog to find out whether she has fulfilled her dream to be "on top of the world".
Sunset over Everest seen from Lobuje Peak**Both photographs reproduced by kind permission of Billi Bierling
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