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Dispatch#36
January 25th, 2002. Aconcagua Base Camp,
Argentina. Team Canusa Hey
folks The following cybercast is for Alpine Ascents
International, this is Matt Szundy, reporting in
from Base Camp after our wonderful summit the other
day. Team Canusa is down, we are down in Base
Camp we descended yesterday from 19,000 feet which
is our Camp III, to Base Camp in just a few
hours, it's amazing how quickly you can come down
and how long it takes to get up there.
Tomorrow we hike out 20 miles to Pampa de Lena,
and then another few hours to the trailhead, where
we will be taking a bus to Mendoza, like horses to
the shower. So today we're enjoying a rest
day, we're enjoying Carter's birthday ,we had a
fantastic scrambled eggs and hash brown breakfast,
tonight we're going to have pizza. We're
enjoying the weather here at Base Camp it's
beautiful, it's in the 60 degree range, sunny and
not very windy, so a big change from our 10 below up
at high camp. Anyway we're all down safe and
sound, and thinking about our loved ones. One
message: A big happy birthday to Laura from Allen.
This will be Matt checking in from Base Camp for
Team Canusa.
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