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Listen to Tim’s voice dispatch
from the mountain (664k mp3 file)
May 2, 2001
Hi this is Tim Boelter calling from ABC at approximately 21,000 feet
on Everest. The snow is beginning to fall right now. Mike Chrisp and I
are at ABC relaxing, trying to recover from our carry up to the Col and
our sleep at the Col at 23,500 feet.
Mike today has been quite busy doing a lot of dental work on some Australians.
He’s been actually putting new fillings in the teeth of a couple
gentlemen whose fillings fell out. I’m recovering from high-altitude
pulmonary edema. But at this time we don’t know what’s going
on with Walter Keller. We know he’s sick and hopefully he’s
at Base Camp. Phil Austin came up April 30th and he is now on his way
up the Col to spend the night at 23,000 feet. And tomorrow he hopes to
go up to Camp II, (also referred to as Camp V) which is approximately
25,000 to 26,000 feet. They hope to establish a camp there. But with our
luck the weather is as usual -- it’s snowing, cloudy, but we’re
fortunate not to have a lot of wind.
So right now we’ve just got to find out what’s going on with
Walter Keller. He’s been quite sick himself and at Base Camp.
Everything is going good. Tomorrow Mike and I will be going down to
Base Camp. We hope to stay there for three to five days. Hopefully I will
get better. If I do not get better, as a lot of the doctors have been
saying around here, my chances of going to the summit are pretty bad.
High-altitude pulmonary edema has pretty much wracked my lungs. As you
can tell by my voice, I have a hard time breathing and talking.
I’m going to let Mike make a dispatch here in a second and he’s
going to actually give better details as to what happened to me up on
the Col.
Tim Boelter
2001 British American Lightweight Everest Expedition
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