SEATTLE, Wash. — Twenty-four-year-old Katie Rose Fischer-Price agreed to talk to us about Nepal and its famous mountain that have figured so prominently in her young life.
"I'm not really even thinking about that as much," said Fischer-Price. "I'm just thinking about Nepal."
She was just 5-years old when her father, Seattle climber Scott Fischer, perished in a tragedy on Mount Everest talked about around the world.
Indeed, she was planning to fly to Nepal on Friday for the trip to Everest's Base Camp for a documentary marking the calamity's 20th anniversary. Then the earthquake struck Nepal triggering an avalanche that overwhelmed those in the camp.
And Fischer-Price, a nurse at Harborview Medical Center, began thinking she should go, but on a different mission.
"The way that I see it is I have a plane ticket," said Fischer-Price. "And really great resources with Mountain Madness and the people that they've connected me with, medical professionals who do this kind of thing."
She will be joining Chris Tompkins, a Snohomish County firefighter who helped start Clarion Global Response. He and other medical volunteers will be setting up a field hospital to help care for the injured.
"There is the human part of it, too, that can be wrenching at times," said Tompkins. "We try to work within a professional state while we're working. And then allow ourselves to be touched by humanity at an appropriate time."
The rest of Tompkins medical team is on its way to Nepal. But he arrived at Sea-Tac Airport with so much medical equipment he didn't meet the weight requirement.
So he will be allowed to fly out Thursday at no additional charge.