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Permits and Candy Bars
Fri, March 19, 1999 — Kathmandu, Nepal
Hi this is Pete Athans calling you from Kathmandu. This morning we've just had a great breakfast over at a place called Mike's, an ex-pat American who started a really great series of restaurants over here, beautiful place.
Now I feel like we are well fortified and ready to take on going over to our agent's place, a guy named Yeltsin who we've worked with for about 15 years. Basically we get our battle plan together, for getting everything from our permitting, our royalty paid and all that to making sure we have enough Snickers bar boxes going up to Base Camp.
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Charles just gave me a big sign of go ahead with that, so, that might be the first listing and the ministry will be at the bottom of the list.
Not much else to say right at this point, we will definitely be checking in with you, I will be sending you a further dispatch and everyone here is obviously incredibly excited. We will be meeting with Elizabeth Hawley, who if you don't know her, she is obviously the chronicler of virtually every expedition to come through here. She has been here since the 1960s, which, really, she was brought here as a correspondent for Reuters covering the newly minted democracy in Nepal which lasted about 15 minutes. But Liz did stay here since that time and she's obviously become kind of the darling and patron of every expedition that actually goes through here as far as information is concerned. She is a wonderful gal, and we will definitely be telling you a little bit more about her later, so take care, have a great day and we look forward to talking to you all soon. Bye now!
—Pete Athans, Expedition Leader
