Featured Expedition: 2003 American Ski Everest Expedition
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Copyright©Jim Gile American Ski Everest 2003

Dispatch 26: American Ski Everest Expedition... (Transcribed from a satellite phone voice message, May 13th Tuesday afternoon.)

We are just leisurely hanging out in our tents. The winds has picked up once again, but nothing like last week or the week before. But it was forecasted [Inaudible] and looking very very windy.

So it is a good thing we are down here at base camp. Fortunately, it is warmer down here now, so we can just kind of hang out. Steve, Jimmy and I went on acclimatization hikes up to 20,000 feet just to stay in shape and keep our minds from numbing too much. It is pretty boring up here.

This morning very very early the Japanese almost lost everything but not to a storm. They had a bunch of cars packed out front and they were jumping up and down yelling something in Japanese. Apparently, they were doing a commercial or something early in the morning in front of Mt Everest when the light was good. It was not welcomed around base camp very well. [On the phone he is laughing] But people understand.

We will stay in touch, out from base camp. Mike.

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