Makalu 2002: Piotr Pustelnik - leader - Poland, Anna Czerwinska - Poland, Ryszard Pawlowski - Poland, Dariusz Zaluski - Poland, Vlado Strba - Slovakia, Peter Frankovic - Slovakia, Martin Gablik - Slovakia, Jay Sieger - USA, R.D. Caughron - USA, & Gonzalo Velez - Portugal

Update 4/13/2002: They put down their first deposit of supplies at 6000 meters. Tomorrow they will try to lay a rope to Camp One...

Update 4/12/2002: Some news from Makalu 2002 expedition. They are in Makalu Base Camp. All members are in good conditions. There isn't to much snow in Makalu region but it's a lot of ice.! BR 

For a long dispatch from American RD Caughron see here...

Dispatches