Anna's stupa

Anna's stupa, originally uploaded by craigeubank.

Shannon was able to give Anna’s ashes a loving farewell to the winds of the mountains. She came upon a stupa that she felt was where “the four corners came together” that was between Tengboche, where there is a large Buddhist monestary, and Pengboche. The eyes painted on the stupa are looking directly up at Ama Dablam, my favorite looking peak, and Everest and Lohtse are gazing down on it. Ama Dablam has two prominent ridges draped with snow that part evenly half way down the west face, making it look like a mountain god with outstretched arms. I saw a face with two distinct eyes, a nose, and a beard, no one else had the vision that I did, but you know, some people just don’t have the “eye” for that stuff like me. Actually, everyone got so tired of me trying to show them they just kept rollin up the trail without me. I was excited that Anna was being welcomed into this guys arms, so excited that I said my goodbyes to her in Pengboche at the stupa directly below the Sir Edmund Hillary (1st person to successfully summit Everest) school. It was fitting that she be placed near a school and once again, in the arms of Sir Ama Dablam. Right after both of us had spread her ashes, crows landed on the tallest of the prayer flags on the stupas. They were playing “who can land on the flag and hold it the longest?” Her and Tuff are flying together in the skies.