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Edema and 50-knot Winds
Thursday, June 8, 2000

A Season on Denali
Darsney
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Hi there everybody in the Mountain Zone, Scott Darsney with Luis Benitez. We finally got up above Windy Corner here after being stuck at 11,000 for four nights.

One of our team members, Martin, got pulmonary edema and Mike and I had to bring him down to Base Camp and that cost us a day.

We made a beautiful carry up to 13.5 and stashed all our stuff; went back down and tried to beat the incoming storm that was forecast for the next five or six days and we didn't beat it. We were going up and up with the ranger team, with Roger Amundsen, and Roger and I peaked out at the top of Squirrel Hill onto the flats there and it was just blowing us over, knocking us down.

So we all went back to 11,000 and someone's already come into our camp, so we had to make a new camp and just kind of hung out for a day-and-a-half, waiting for the weather to clear. And this morning it broke; the forecast is supposed to be pretty lousy bewteen now and Saturday, 50-knot winds. But the winds have diminished greatly.

We got around the corner, we're only a half hour from 14,000 feet so you should hear regular dispatches from us now. Anyway, that's all for now, maybe we'll check in later tonight. Scott Darsney for the Mountain Zone signing off.

Scott Darsney, Alpine Ascents International, MountainZone.com Correspondent


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