Contents [Ski Everest Home] Front page for the Skiing Everest Cybercast [UPDATES] Climbers call from Everest on a sat-phone [The North Side] Climbing guide Eric Simonson describes the Northeast Ridge Route [Meet the Team] The 1997 Everest Ski Expedition members [EVEREST '97] Rich multimedia cybercast from Everest [Sponsors] Companies that supported this effort The Everest Bookstore Click on a book for details and ordering info from The Mountain Zone Bookstore. "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer An epic, first-hand account of the 1996 tragedy. "Everest" by Walt Unsworth Thorough compilation of historic climbs, triumph and tragedy. "Everest Map" by Brad Washburn National Geographic centennial map, Washburn's Everest map and more. "Everest: The West Ridge" by Tom Hornbein The pioneering ascent by Unsoeld and Hornbein. [The Mountain Zone] More stories from The Mountain Zone			Updates From Everest Click here to get the FREE Real Audio Player to hear sat-phone calls. Calonica Troillet Turned Back Saturday, September 13, 1997 (Everest North Face advance base camp, Tibet) [Click to hear the sat-phone call.] Transcript: Hi everyone, this is Craig Calonica up at Everest advance base camp at 6:30 pm. Jean Troillet and Stephan Shaffter — and we found out later a Japanese soloist went up with them — left at about two in the morning and were up at camp II near 7500 meters — I think that's where they turned around — due to extremely bad wind slab conditions. [High wind has piled large amounts of avalanche-prone snow on the lee side of the ridge] The Japanese guy cut one slide loose on himself and fortunately he didn't go with it. It's snowing right now. It looks like the weather is going to be bad for maybe seven days. We have a satellite photo that we're going to be looking into here in the next hour or so. If that's the case we're going to be going back down to base camp to rest and let it do what it wants to do. No reason to hang out here and get burned out. That's about it for this afternoon. We just kind of sat around and took it easy and tried to get used to 21,500 ft. We'll fill you in with the latest news tomorrow again. Goodbye. — Craig Calonica, Expedition Leader PREVIOUS UPDATE | UPDATES HOME | NEXT UPDATE

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