I am in!!!!

I am at work, Monday morning as many others... I have just spent a great week end snowboarding in Andorra. Email check during coffee break. Agentur Joachim Stark, another junk mail... wait, no... the subject is : GORE-TEX® Experience Tour History Sessions 2015 | Congratulations: You will climb Balmhorn with Edurne! Heartbeats going up. I read it again. And again.

Dear Helena,

good news: You are in!

I am happy to announce that your application has been successfull and you were chosen by VERTIC to participate!

I am in! I am in! I, Helena, am innnnnnnnnn!!!!

Euphoria takes me over! I take the opportunity to make those two calls I have been postponing in the last weeks, they will surely come out well (actually they did!). I might buy a lottery ticket (actually I didn't).

It takes me a while to realize that I am going to meet and share a climb with Edurne Pasaban. The congratulations and questions of friends (how did you did it? no clue, really....) helps me to see it's real.

In a few days, Ivan, another lucky mountaineer, creates a Facebook group (winning the title of official organizer). We are all just as excited and happy as children going to Disneyland!

But now I think I should start to train for real, I am definitely not at my best, I won't be in June but I have to be fit enough, not to be the first in line but at least to reach the summit. Would be a pity not to...