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Resting at Camp III
Sunday, January 23, 2000
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Hello, this is Willi Prittie reporting from Argentina. We're on Aconcagua at 19,200 feet at our Camp III. Reasonably good weather again today, some moderate winds now and then, but we had a good carry up. Everybody's very very tired tonight. Predominantly that comes not from doing the carry — everybody came out in very good shape from that — but from constructing the camp sites.
In order to have a good camp site that will resist the predatory winds that we were talking about last night, requires actually carrying a lot of rocks and constructing some pretty good-sized anchors up here for the tents and what not, and that is brutal work at 19,200 feet. So we'll definitely be taking at least one rest day tomorrow. We'll kind of hang out and recover a little bit, acclimate a little bit more, and right now it's looking like there's no real change in the weather — very few clouds, just a little bit of minor afternoon build up here and there, over some peaks, but [Unintelligible] great conditions.
Some groups have actually summitted in the last couple of days, so we're looking forward to the next couple of days [Unintelligible]. Now Charles is sitting in our tent, which doubles as the cook tent, and fixing roasted garlic pasta for everybody and we'll be trying to eat and drink a lot, have a lot of soups and hot drinks to make sure that we're well hydrated and help promote proper acclimation. So that'll be kind of the game plan for the next couple of days here and we'll keep our fingers crossed in terms of good weather and not a lot of wind when we actually go for the summit. So that's all for now from Argentina, and we'll talk to you again, later.
—Alpine Ascents Guide Willi Prittie, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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