Harding first graders make prayer flags for Mount Everest base camp
Student’s grandmother hangs flags that spread messages of love, peace, kindness
Seven-year-old Megan Murphy described her creation quite simply.
“Well, it had a giraffe and an ocean and some grass. It was pretty. It was a blue flag. It had some peace signs and hearts,” she said. “And that’s about it.”
But the flag she designed and made in her first-grade Harding Academy class last spring must be pretty special, as it, along with her classmates’ creations, is hanging at 17,040 feet in a base camp of Mount Everest.
Megan’s grandmother, Audrey Gonzalez, hung the international prayer flags during her two-month pilgrimage to Nepal and Tibet. Gonzalez was 68 years old and had just undergone a breast cancer operation at the time.
