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Dispatch#11
December 29th, 2001. Aconcagua Base Camp,
Argentina. Team I Hi
this is Ellie Henke calling in from Aconcagua Base
Camp, reporting in for the Aconcagua group I led by
Willi Prittie and Eric Remza. This group is up
at Camp III at 19,200 feet where they are looking
out on the rest of the world. They had a rest
day all day today, December 29th and everyone is
doing very well with the altitude up there.
They had a variety of activities going on throughout
the day, Willi Lhakpa and Todd took a brief trip on
up to Camp IV to prepare tent sites, so when the
group moves up tomorrow, they'll have sites to ready
to go to put tents up. They also put up one
tent so that'll save additional work when the group
moves up.
In the
meantime at Camp III, they've switched to a new card
game, apparently the guides are tired of getting
beat all the time, so Willi reports that they are
now playing 45's, which is the official provincial
game of Nova Scotia. We'll need verification
on that one, it may be a high altitude thing.
The group had a nice scrambled egg and toast
breakfast and they're all looking forward to a nice
hearty lentil dinner, but unfortunately they are
getting a few snow flurries up there at Camp III, it
didn't sound like anything serious, and hopefully by
tomorrow morning the weather will al be clear, and
we expect they will all be moving up to Camp IV
tomorrow. So that's all from Team I up at Camp
III, and we'll be with them as they make their final
push to the summit.
 Dispatches
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