It's September 24th and I'm calling from Camp I at almost exactly the same time, standing in exactly the same spot that I called you from 24 hours ago. I'm still watching it snow. The history of this storm over the last 24 hours has been, I'd like to say, interesting but at times it's been mostly monotonous. It's certainly an exciting time.

Just before 5am this morning I heard a very big avalanche, the sound of a huge avalanche taking off the north face of Nuptse. And seconds later, I began to feel the wind and then the spindrift of this event. We got dusted pretty heavily here at Camp I.

Right now it's -1 degree C, relative humidity around 90 percent here. And I'm watching a light snow. I mentioned a couple of days ago, maybe not in the audio dispatch but in some report that got through, that a storm I sat out with Bill Roos on the Ngozumba Glacier about 16 years ago where it snowed so much - October 17, 18 and 19 - nothing like that now. As a matter of fact, it snowed more in an hour or two during that storm event than we've seen this entire time. I'm just looking at granular snow. In the middle of the day today it turned almost to rain. But we're just settled in.

If you are wondering what it's like sitting out a storm like this on Everest, first of all, it's not uncommon at all. It's the sort of thing we do virtually on every expedition and we will likely do again on this expedition. Your world becomes nylon. You are sitting or laying inside a nylon tent, you are surrounded by piles of nylon rope that's waiting to be moved up to fix the Lhotse Face. Of course, you're bundled up in a nylon sleeping bag in your nylon down coat. And all your little nylon trinkets. Your world is nylon and you are in a slightly moist, but warm environment. And you try to keep eating and drinking. Our Alpine Aire food has been ideal up here. For this type of food, high altitude food, it has great flavour and has been really enjoyable.

Right now, Garry Porter and I are doing the cooking tonight. I'm looking across at his headlamp over in the cook trench that we've dug. And I'm going to go help him finish up making soup and Alpine Aire dinners for everyone. And then we'll be going to bed.

I'll be monitoring the radios through the night, talking to Base Camp to see if those guys can begin to move tomorrow morning.

— Wally Berg, expedition leader