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DISPATCHES FROM EVEREST
Team Scientist, Freddy Blume, reports from Everest

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Guy Cotter on the New Zealand Expedition
Monday, May 5, 1997 (Base Camp)
Guy Cotter is leading a New Zealand expedition for Adventure Consultants, the guiding operation he took over from Rob Hall last year. Cotter's team is now on the mountain poised for a summit attempt, but before heading up, he talked to AAI team scientist, Freddy Blume in Base Camp.

Click to hear Guy Cotter's audio dispatch recorded over sat-phone.

From Cotter's Satellite Call:
I'm Guy Cotter. I'm leading the Adventure Consultants group... At this stage, we've got five of us in the group who have prepared to be on the summit team at any time now. We've been here since early April. We've acclimatized up to the Camp III level... Now we're just waiting for the weather to improve sufficiently for us to make a summit attempt which would be probably in the next few days when we leave to go up through Camps II, III, and Camp IV at 7,900 meters [25,900'] before making a summit attempt up to the summit at 8848 meters [29,028'].

-- Guy Cotter, Leader of the New Zealand Adventure Consultants Expedition


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