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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 25, 2001Hello this is Walter Keller of the British American
Expedition. To give you an update, Phil Austin and I went up to the North Col
again yesterday to consolidate our tent and do our final carry for this leg of
the climb. It was a beautiful day, but we’re a bit tired. We’ve now
spent, I think, eight nights above 6,500 meters or 21,000 feet. So we’re
really getting a bit worn out. There’s also a big storm coming in. The tent
flaps are really snapping in the wind as I’m sitting here.We’re
going to head back down to Base Camp and meet up with Tim and Mike, and we’re
going to reorganize and decide where to go from here. Our next step in general
is going to be to go ahead and move up the mountain. There are a couple of additional
camps we need to establish before going for the summit. We’ll be doing these
particular camps in a very lightweight style, almost an alpine
style, to get our bodies ready. And we’ll have each camp hopefully established
for a summit push.That’s our general plan. We’ll be meeting
up with Tim and Mike, and we’ll probably be out of contact for a little while.
Walter Keller
2001 British American Lightweight Everest Expedition
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