Good morning everybody... Received this message from Saeed a couple days ago... here it is:

Dear sponsors, supporters, friends and colleagues:

Yes! we did it. We stood on the roof of the world the very summit of Mt. Everest (Sagarmatha) on May 22nd at 10:30 am. On this moment all of you were on my mind as I attached the the list of the individual sponsors to the summit flags.

The few days of the final push and the reason that the summit attempt from camp IV was delayed from May 20th to May 22nd has many details that I will be preparing soon but here are some of the details of the summit push:

On the night of the May 21st I left camp IV with my Sherpa -- Chhewang Dorjee -- at 10:30 PM in light snow fall and no wind. Although I was hesitant, I continued on towards the Balcony. At about 3:00 am we reached the Balcony and snow had stopped with full moon shining on the snow cloir. We turned the head lamps off and witnessed the sunrise at about 5:00 below the South Summit.

Continuing up the steep ridge to the South Summit at 28,700' and the famous South East ridge to the Hillary Step I witnessed the most beautiful scenes. At the top of the Step I met Mike Brown from the IMG/Mountain Link Expedition and three members from the Spanish Andalusia Expedition who were: Manuel Gonzalez, Ivan Jara and Juan Jose Garra. After a short acknowledgment I continued up towards the summit with Chhwang Dorjee shortly behind me on the summit ridge Chhwang Dorje gradually caught up with me and we continued the next 100' together to the summit.

It was about 10:30 am that we stepped on the highest point on earth and after spending about 45 minutes on top and installing Iran-USA peace flag and taking pictures we left the summit in deteriorating weather. I also met David Hahn from the IMG/Mountain Link Expedition at the step on his way up to the summit...

I will follow up with the details of the descent later...

Love,
Saeed

There it is... official confirmation from the man himself saying he did it. Once again, thanks everybody for the awesome support this expedition has received. I know everybody working with me have been truly amazing... I need to personally thank George Martin of Everest News for putting up with me saying "Where's he at???" over and over again. I want to also personally thank Saeed for allowing me to work with the expedition. And there are so many others I wish to thank but cannot remember! I'll try this weekend to post any news I receive, however, I graduate from High School on Sunday, and it might be a zoo around here! Thanks again!