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Okay, here you go. Good morning Mountain Zone. Actually [Unintelligible] but it's morning for us...The beautiful, spectacular, [Unintelligible] are in here at 7100 meters on the Lhotse Face of Mount Everest. This is Willie Prittie reporting for the Alpine Ascents International Mount Everest Program. We spent our first night on oxygen last night and it was a testament to the oxygen...our oxygen sat without oxygen was ranging from high 60s to mid-70s without oxygen. With oxygen, they were jumping up to the mid- to high-90s, we actually turned in a 99% this morning. So we all got a wonderful night's sleep up here. We're looking forward to climbing on up today. It's an absolutely gorgeous sunny day as I mentioned. We will be climbing on oxygen as well today, so that should ease the task of getting up to 8000 meters at the South Col. There is a bit of wind over the summit; there's a pretty big plume blowing over the Kangshung Face right now. And there's some lenticulars over [Unintelligible] so there is a fair amount of wind up high, but we're banking on that. That's going to kind of calm down a little bit as we head up. Also news, apparently Babu Chirri Sherpa, who is trying to summit in about 16 hours, is apparently about an hour from the summit, which means he's probably going to make it in 15 hours instead of 16 hours. If that's true, a huge congratulations to him, he didn't take an easy day to go up at all because there's a lot of wind over the summit ridge. Hello to everyone at the Zone following us, and like I say, we will be getting up to our High Camp today, Hello from Camp III. Just to assure everybody here, it's very cold, windy and snowing...There ain't no scree here at Camp III. — Willi Prittie, Alpine Ascents Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent |
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