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Equipped with satellite communication tools, the team is sending dispatches
and photos back to this Web site. You’re invited to follow the climb
through written accounts and digital images. 
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Listen to Walter’s voice dispatch
from the mountain (368k mp3 file)
May 5, 2001
Hello. This is Walter Keller of the British American Expedition. Phil
Austin and I just returned from the North Col last night, and are returning
to Base Camp today. He went up on a foray to about 7,600 meters the day
before yesterday. He and I went to 7,300 meters yesterday.
What we’re going to do is we’re going to go back down to Base
Camp for about five days. Due to all the issues that have come up what
we’re probably going to try to do is come back up well rested and
see what the weather looks like. Then we’ll try to do kind of a small
little summit push on about the 13th.
We’re going down for a little bit of rest before a hopeful brief
summit bid. We don’t really have all the equipment in place that
we’d like, but we’re hopeful that maybe we might still be able
to get a chance at it on or around the 13th, 14th, 15th, or something
like that.
Walter Keller
2001 British American Lightweight Everest Expedition
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