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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 (528k mp3
file)
April 12, 2001
Hello. This is Walter Keller from the British American Everest Expedition.
We’re at 21,000 feet, that’s about 6,400 meters. This is going
to be our second night at Advanced Base Camp. And we’ve got a bit
of weather today. It’s a lot colder. We’re all clad in down
and I have my One Sport high altitude boots on. It’s a little bit
colder. We’re all still in good spirits, looking forward to moving
up to the North Col. But we’re really not ready to go up. We need
a little bit more time for our bodies to adjust. We’re going to spend
tonight and probably tomorrow night here at Advanced Base Camp.
We’re situated right next to the East Rongbuk Glacier, which I
had a chance to go out and do a little wondering around on today -- beautiful,
beautiful glacier. It’s a little different than most glaciers. It’s
very blue with a lot of glacial ice. A lot of times on glaciers you have
to go down into the crevasses to see the blue glacial ice. But for whatever
reason, that’s what this glacier is like. And it’s a pretty
amazing experience to go wandering out there.
For now we’re just sitting put and trying to stay healthy and get
our bodies ready to go higher.
Walter Keller
2001 British American Lightweight Everest Expedition
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