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Wednesday, April 22, 1998 — Base Camp (17,500')
The route to Camp III should be fixed by tomorrow, and the first loads to Camp III should go up the day after tomorrow. Back down in base camp, two new Swiss teams arrived to climb Lhotse and Everest, bringing the total number of teams in base camp to nearly a dozen.
In order to do something interesting, check out the gear, and get our sherpas familiar with the GPS equipment, Dawa and I are mapping the movement of the icefall. In a few days, you can expect some numbers on how fast this puppy moves. We found all kinds of interesting stuff off the route from old climbing gear to helicopter parts. Early in the morning, we had to help out with a non-life threatening Swiss helicopter evac.
— David Mencin, Expedition Scientist
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