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Dispatch#14
December 31st, 2001. Aconcagua Base Camp,
Argentina. Team I
Hi this is Ellie reporting from Aconcagua Base Camp,
where I've heard from Willi and the group going to
the summit. Willi called on the radio at about
2:30pm local time, this afternoon and at that time
he was standing on the top with three people, he
didn't say who they were, and soon after that, all
seven that were making the summit attempt were
standing on the summit! I heard from him again
at about 4:30 and at that point they were streaming
back toward Independencia which is above Camp IV
where they are staying tonight. Willi says he
has got some pretty tired people tonight, so they
will be staying at Camp IV. Lhakpa and Todd
will continue on down to 19.2 where they will join
Matthew there for the night. So congratulations to
Corey, Roy, Chad, Scott, Guy and Bill, and to Todd,
for his climb starting at 19,200 feet. And
congratulations to Matthew: it's no mean feat
reaching 20,000 feet on this mountain. And
even though he didn't reach the summit, we hope he's
really proud of his accomplishment, that's way up in
the air, where he made it to. So
congratulations to Willi's and Eric's crew, and
we'll be hearing from Group II a little bit later.
Dispatches
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