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Good morning, Mountain Zone. Wally Berg calling you from the Embree Glacier, about 10 in the morning Chile time, local time, from the Embree Glacier in Antarctica. It's about 15-knot winds right now and warmer than I described yesterday, about -5 Fahrenheit; we've got low clouds coming in from the east. This has put a hold on our plans to go up and erect a [Unintelligible] route on Mount Anderson, the other peak we wanted to climb. Mount Anderson's a 4,000 meter peak — highest peak in this end of the basin, actually. It has never been climbed. We wanted to at least take a look at a route up it while we're out here but today, with these low clouds, we're going to hang tight.

Yesterday we did get a MIT weather probe number 18889 deployed. I'm eagerly awaiting information from the States, confirming that the data is getting back, in tact. I'm almost certain it is, but we'll know, soon today. I hope that, in fact, the data is getting through from this weather probe. We know 18890 and 18891, which were deployed by Bob way back in November have been operating pretty flawlessly since we deployed them; 91 has had some glitches, and for that reason we may remove it from the ice and take it back to the States, if we take one back.

But at any rate, we're just [Unintelligible] Bob is a master wall builder. The whole time we've been out here — I was describing my little jaunts to look around yesterday — Bob has been slowly, but very skillfully, building walls around our camp here...[transmission fails].

— Wally Berg, MountainZone.com Correspondent

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