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Alpine
Ascents International Cho-Oyu Cybercast, Tibet
(26,906ft/8,201m)
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9/17/01
11:29am, Cho-Oyu Advanced Base Camp, Tibet
Hi
everybody it's Todd from Cho-Oyu Base Camp, we got
here last night. Everything's great, we
built a really nice camp, everybody worked hard
because we're on a big glacier moraine, so we had
to move big boulders around, but we've got all of
our tents in camp, and we're all set up and
everyone's relaxing today. The weather's
beautiful, it's sunny, we've got some high clouds,
you can't see the top of Cho-Oyu, but the mountain
sits right in front of us. We're really not
more than about a quarter of a mile, or half mile
from the Nangpa-La, which is right on the border
of Tibet and Nepal, that's how we get down, we'd
love to be able to cross that way and go down to
Lhakpa's house, our climbing Sirdar, it's only two
days walk away, but it's not legal for us to cross
the border, so we're going to stay up here.
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It's
a high base camp, higher than most, at 18,500
feet, where Everest Base Camp is only 17,300.
Everybody seems to be doing great and
recuperating, we pushed pretty hard for two
days, we went from 16,000 up to here, with 7 to
8 mile days, over rocky terrain, everybody feels
great and we're right on schedule. The
mountain looks good, it's absolutely beautiful
here, we're surrounded by big glaciers and peaks
that look like, we have one peak right across
from us that looks like the Eiger. Life is
good, and we're eating well and everyone's very
happy. Our thoughts are with everybody
back in America, and thank you for all of your
emails encouraging us to keep going instead of
returning home and we hope that everybody's life
is getting back into order back there and that
everything will slowly work out. That's it
from Base Camp right now and we'll talk to you
soon.
Todd
Burleson
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