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Everest 97 NAVBAR
DISPATCHES FROM EVEREST
Team Scientist Freddy Blume reports from Everest
AAI now Climbing Just Below the Balcony
Saturday, May 24, 1997 -- 1:45pm PST
Sunday, May 25, 1997 -- 3am Nepal

Blume

The Balcony at 27,500' photographed in '94.
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Just got a call from climbing Sherpa sirdar Lhakpa Rita at the "Camp V" site used by the Indonesians on their descent bivy just below the Balcony at 27,500'. [Click to see a photo of the Balcony taken in 1994.] Everybody's great, weather's great, full steam ahead.

A little while later, Dawa Sherpa at Camp II heard from Wally Berg and Todd Burleson that everybody's making good progress and feeling strong, but couldn't get their exact location (topography sometimes makes communications REALLY tough.)

-- Freddy Blume, Everest Base Camp



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