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Edge of the World Tour
Friday, June 2, 2000

A Season on Denali
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Hello Mountain Zone, this is Tom Bridge the leader of the second Alpine Ascents International team on Denali. We have named ourselves the Edge of the World Tour. And we saw Bill and John go down today and slept with them up here at 17 last night. So things are going real well with our team.

We've had a number of hard days, of course, getting up here with all of our fuel and supplies. We're actually in a good position right now to be summitting tomorrow.

A little bit of a lenticular cloud right now on the top of the south summit of Denali. Generally quite clear, but low clouds below us. It's been fairly warm. A lot of people have been summitting the last couple of days.

We had a rest day today from our long pull from 14,000 up to 17,000 and because of our tenting arrangements we were swapping tents with the other team. We ended up bivouacking last night, and they went down today and we've got their tents tonight — so we're pretty happy campers now. And our team is looking pretty strong and we're looking forward to nice weather tomorrow — potentially reaching the top.

We'll call you [Unintelligible] on our journey and keep you updated. Hope everything is going well with you guys. Bye-bye.

Tom Bridge, Alpine Ascents International, MountainZone.com Correspondent


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