Hitachi Daily Dispatches [CLICK FOR INDEX] Charles Corfield Looking to the Upper Camps
 Sun, April 11, 1999 — South Side Base Camp
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Good morning Mountain Zone. Today is Sunday, the 11th of April. It is a beautiful morning here. So most of the crew has gone up to Camp I this morning. Kelly and I, in Base, we're brewing something. So we just want to give it one more day before we head on up and do our lap to establish Camp II and get things settled in there and then come back down.

Everest Expedition This means that as of tomorrow, our dispatches will be missing for a few days because we'll be up on the mountain. However, we'll still be thinking about you. Quite a windy morning today! Through the night, it just blew and blew; no particular weather in the area. In fact, it's just a cloudless sky at the moment, and the temperatures are pleasantly warm. As we said earlier, the temperatures this climbing season seem to be a few weeks ahead of usual, and this may reflect the warm, dry winter that they have had.

We have uploaded a panorama of Base Camp taken yesterday, and I hope you will enjoy that. Let us know what bits and pieces we need to explain on that. We have also been joined by Dawa, who Pete and I have worked with on a number of expeditions, and Dawa will be helping us out, running Camp II as a Camp Manager for the rest of the expedition, and we're very pleased to see him. Yesterday, we were visited by Todd Burleson's Alpine Ascents International trekking group who tagged Base Camp before going back down to Gorak Shep and on with the rest of their trek.

That is it for now, and we'll keep you posted again in a few days. That's it. Ciao!

—Charles Corfield, Climber

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