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Alpine
Ascents International Cho-Oyu Cybercast, Tibet
(26,906ft/8,201m)
9/28/01
8:39am, Cho-Oyu Advanced Base Camp, Tibet
Good
afternoon everybody, this is Luis Benitez calling
for Alpine Ascents International. Sorry
we've all been so tardy in delivering messages to
the outside world, but we've been busy trying to
climb this mountain. As it stands rights
now, we're all at camp II and everybody's coming
back down to Base camp for a couple of days of
rest before we start for our final summit bids.
The past couple of days have seen us at Camp I,
acclimatizing, making small carries towards Camp
II and dealing with more technical terrain between
Camp I and Camp II. Camp III is only a
couple of hours above Camp II, so the point where
we will push off for our summit bid is pretty darn
close to where everyone has acclimatized up to at
this point.
All
the oxygen is in place, the tents are in
place, everything seems to be about as ready
as it can be. The weather seems to be
cooperating tremendously, mornings usually
start out with light winds on the summit that
dissipate by late morning, early afternoon,
which seems to show pretty good signs for our
upcoming summit attempts. Everybody's in
good spirits, seems to be feeling good,
everyone's looking forward to a couple of days
of rest back down there at Base Camp before we
start off for our final attempts. Some
teams have already attempted the summit and
are starting to leave, so Base Camp is
beginning to become a little bit smaller, but
there are still people here who are going to
be trying right along beside us. The
National Geographic Team, a couple of teams
from Slovakia that are trying to ski off the
summit, a team from Spain, a team from Norway
and I believe one more team from Japan.
So we'll be trying to check in as much as
possible over the next couple of days, letting
you know how we're feeling, what we're
thinking and when we plan on leaving Base Camp
for our summit bid. Till then this is
Luis saying to everyone back home have a
pleasant day and we'll talk to you soon, bye
bye.
