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Tonight we checked to make sure people are eating enough, drinking enough, peeing enough, making sure that every way, shape, and form, that they are in the best possible conditions for going to the highest point on earth. Sleep is ever, ever important and it's actually very hard to do up here. And if you can hear a little noise in the background, we're in the Sherpa kitchen right now at 21,000 feet. So, there's a lot of things going on. But sleep, as I was mentioning, is very, very important. It's one of the things that we try and get the most of, but at altitude all...sometimes all you can do is rest, and rest we've been doing. As soon as we got here this morning to Camp II we laid down and we'd taken a nap. So we're eating, drinking and sleeping; those are the things that your doctor would have you do and your mom would have you do so that we're in the best shape possible. As I mentioned, tomorrow is going to be a rest day because the weather up high is looking a little windy and we've been getting snow that keeps coming through today. We're on hold tomorrow and hopefully the following day we'll start going up the mountain again. For those of you who are interested in numbers, our pulse rate...excuse me, our oxygen saturation is hanging around 80 — that was at Camp I, which is about 19,000 feet. Now it's...of course we're going to have a little lower and I'll give you those stats in the morning. Pulse rate has been hitting around 80 up to 88 I think. It's swinging; our heart's trying to make up for the lack of oxygen and blood and we're trying to circulate more blood around. The temperature this morning was -5 degrees centigrade and currently we're at 6450 meters above sea level, that's six kilometers above sea level. So stay tuned, we'll talk to you tomorrow. That's all from Nepal, ciao for...[transmission fails]. — Vern Tejas, Alpine Ascents Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent |
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