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Wally has stayed at camp II and Wally will not be on the first summit attempt. He will be coordinating things at the South Col with the GPS experiment. So tomorrow, Wally will move to camp III. Eric, Greg and Charles will move to the South Col and sleep for a few hours. While they get up at 11:30 at night and move to the summit, Wally will move to camp IV. Everything will be happening very quick in the next 48 hours.

24 hours from now, Eric, Greg and Charles and seven Sherpas should be getting up and beginning their summit attempt. The weather looks good. A couple days ago, there was an ominous forecast that has dissipated and we have a 72 hour excellent weather window, and things look very, very, very good.

Down here at base camp, things are going well. Everybody is preparing for the summit attempt, everybody's been staying up through the night and monitoring everybody, and we should be sending messages back from all the team members patched through the radio. That's all for now. Ciao.

— David Mencin, Expedition Scientist

Latest Data From the South Col (May 17, '98):
Temperature: -13.4°C
Pressure: 11.27Kpascal
Wind: 29mph (NOTE: the wind meter is sheltered to not blow away, so the wind speed is not accurate at this time.)

This data is from weather probes designed and built by students at the MIT Media Lab and installed by Dave Mencin of the '98 E3 expedition. (http://www.everest.org/Everest/tech.html)

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