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| Dispatch Six: Thursday, April 10, 2003: A phone update from Dave Hahn and email update from Tap Richards both tell of amazingly hard and good work by the Sherpas, who have already moved up to Camp 2 during the last two days to establish Advance Base Camp. "They're kicking tail" was the summary. Guides Hahn, Richards and Ben Marshall took a foray up through the Icefall yesterday to recon the route and will head back up today with climbers Gary Johnson, David "PJ" Pierce Jones, and Charlie Hyde to do some acclimatization and "skills honing" in the Icefall. Meanwhile, Dave surveyed the landscape of some 30 teams at BC and hopes for good weather allowing people to think about summit bids in early May. With so many people on the mountain this year, if all summit bids get condensed into a short climbing window in late May, things are going to get very crowded up high. One member of the team, Dave's laptop computer, has suffered HATE (high altitude technology epidemic) and Dave's recovery disks are somewhere in Taos NM, so he's wishing Office Depot had an outlet at BC. Other than that, all are well and strong and climbing. Eric Simonson
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