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Good morning Mountain Zone, this is Vern Tejas with Alpine Ascents high on the flanks of Mount Everest. Today we walked up the Western Cwm, it was a wonderful day, spent whiling our way through the crevasses, some very large ones, hundreds and hundreds of feet wide and long. It's easy to see the big ones, but there are all sorts of little ones that you don't see, so we put our rope on just in case. It actually made traveling a little bit more community like, you can [Unintelligible] through the rope, you know what is going on with every member. As we ascended up, the wind whipped us at 42 knots in the face and we underwent very low temperatures of 10 below centigrade, which makes with the wind chill of negative 30 centigrade, lots of fun. And then the sun would come out and we would almost bake, the contrast was amazing. Now we are at Camp II on the big mountain itself. From where we camp now at Camp II at 6,450 meters above sea level, we can look up the Lhotse wall, it rises above us for thousands of feet. We can see the Sherpas working up there today, it is very windy and cold. One of the Sherpas from the other teams ended up with frost nip on his fingers and toes. I had to look at it and [Unintelligible] to him that it was not going to be nothing very detrimental to him. He's going down tomorrow to have a doctor examine it. The rest of us are doing fairly well, we have had a few headaches and [Unintelligible]. Myself, I'm just recovering from a bad intestinal bug, thank goodness for chemistry, I now can fart with impunity. For those interested in numbers our oxygen stats this morning were 75 percent, our average pulse was 86, we are now at 6,460 meters above sea level. And tomorrow, we are looking forward to a day of rest. We are going to sleep in and acclimatize, it is a patient man who is able to climb this mountain. One must rest and let the body digest. That is it for me, Willi and all from Nepal. Ciao for now. — Vern Tejas, Alpine Ascents Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent |
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