Daily Dispatches [CLICK FOR INDEX] Pete Athans Anxious to Climb
 Tue, April 27, 1999 — South Side Base Camp
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Hey everybody at The Mountain Zone, this is Pete Athans reporting from Base Camp. It's the 27th, Tuesday, of April. Just wanted to check in with you all—let you know it's almost a full moon out there tonight. It's a beautiful night. All the clouds that were around earlier have all dissipated and just really completely revealed the beautifulness of Base Camp. It really is quite an amazing evening.

Kelly Rhoads More than windy, however, up high. The Sherpa teams were able to finish bringing oxygen, our camping gear, and a variety of other equipment for our projects up to the South Col today, and they will be leaving at about 5:30am to come down tomorrow. So we will be together tomorrow evening, and then our team will go up to Camp II.

Our plan from there is to actually take a rest day at II and then work up to Camp III. By that time, our Sherpa team will have rested, and they will come up to Camp II. Then we'll meet going to the South Col the following day. And that all depends on the winds kind of dropping down a little bit, so we'll just keep you posted on how all that looks.

Sherpa In the event that it stays windy, we will be going over to our Camp I on Nuptse, putting in a cache of rope, food, fuel, tents, and basically just getting our three-pronged effort completely underway. We've been resting down here now for about four-and-a-half days, so we're pretty anxious to get going.

In any case, I hope you're all following and hope you're having a good time doing so. It's been great visiting with you all; look forward to talking with you all soon. This is Pete Athans, and I'll be signing off from here. Have a great evening. Bye now.

—Pete Athans, Expedition Leader

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