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Dispatch#42
January 31st, 2002. Aconcagua Base Camp,
Argentina. Team IV Hi
this is Ellie calling in from Aconcagua Base Camp
where we just heard from Willi and the team.
Willi and Will and Don reached the summit today at
about 2:30pm local time. Mark and Bill ended
up turning around and going back before reaching the
summit. Conditions up there were horrible, the wind
was ripping around the entire mountain including
down here at base camp. Down here the
Argentinean flag went down but I did manage to keep
Lhakpa's prayer flags up. So congratulations to
Willi, Will and Don, and I have also heard from
Willi that the team is now safe down at Camp IV, the
high camp and they're planning on packing up and
everybody will spend the night tonight at Camp III
before tomorrow coming all the way down to base
camp. So hopefully by7 tomorrow we can get a
message from the team themselves as they hit Base
Camp again. So that's it from Aconcagua until
tomorrow.
Dispatches
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