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Alpine
Ascents International Cho-Oyu Cybercast, Tibet
(26,906ft/8,201m)
10/4/01
12:13pm, Cho-Oyu Advanced Base Camp, Tibet
Hello
everyone this is Ruth at Alpine Ascents' Advanced
Base Camp on Cho-Oyu in Tibet. I'm reporting
the last days events. Yesterday the climbers
all went to Camp II, it was a very windy difficult
day, they got there about four or five o'clock
exhausted but had a good night.
I
talked to Todd this morning, they had a very
ferocious wind blowing. When I look at the
mountain every half hour it changes from very
thick clouds blowing over to snow. We did
have a lot of deep snow between II and III.
They are holding tight at II for now, they are
going to check in every two hours. They
had hoped to go to III today and leave for the
summit tonight, but we'll see what the weather
lets us do.
Everyone
here at Advanced Base Camp is well. The
weather has definitely changed, it's now snowing
down here, and everyone is pretty much in their
tents. Advanced Base Camp I don't want to
say is boring, but I spent all morning two days
ago looking for Mingma's tooth. Mingma is
one of the Sherpas who is helping us climb this
mountain, and he was yelling at a Tibetan the
other morning and his gold tooth fell out of his
mouth into the rocks and I excavated for it all
morning with no success. I don't want to
say it's boring here but you do have to find
things to entertain yourself. That's all
for now and I will report again in 24 hours on
the progress up the mountain. Good luck to
everyone and we hope that we have a weekend of
opportunity on the way.
