Dan Mazur Everest-Lhotse May 7th

This morning, three of our members, Bruce, Paul and Phil went together with Jangbu Sherpa from Camp 2. They returned to Base Camp safely at 3:00 this afternoon. Three of our members, Mark, Bill, and Terry, came down from Camp 3 down to Camp 2.We are all down here at Camp 2 today.

Tomorrow, we plan on leaving early in the morning and heading back to Base Camp. There we'll have some rest days, as our Sherpas continue working on the route and preparing the high camps by getting all of our oxygen, supplies and food and fuel up for our success into the high camps.

Today was a good day. It was pretty warm down here.

There was bad weather up high on the mountain. A large group of Sherpas tried to reach the high camps today and as far as we could tell they turned around somewhere below the Yellow Band. This happened yesterday also, although a few Sherpas did get through, we heard. But mostly they're waiting for better weather, which is supposed to happen around the 9th of May.

So we'll keep you informed, and thank you very much.

Bye bye.

Dan
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