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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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April 23, 2001
Hello this is Walter Keller again, trying to keep you updated on things
that are happening here at Advanced Base Camp. Sometimes because of nobody’s
fault, basically because of altitude, people don’t always think as
clearly as they would at Base Camp. A Kuwaiti climber who was a part of
a French commercial expedition was just evacuated, probably not in the
most efficient means. Through the combined efforts of a lot of people
at ABC he has been sent down with pretty severe altitude sickness, probably
with high altitude cerebral edema and potentially with high altitude pulmonary
edema. Thanks to the help of a lot of people he is on his way down. This
can really happen to anyone up here when they first come up and if they
haven’t been here too long. It can create serious problems. We’re
all wishing him the best, and we hope that everybody back at home has
their prayers and wishes for him, especially over the next 12 hours because
it will be a fairly lengthy evacuation as he gets to Base Camp and then
below.
Walter Keller
2001 British American Lightweight Everest Expedition
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