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"The only section of Everest I skied was between Camps 1 and 2. I am disappointed, but I am also walking away feeling proud..."

"We're back in the familiar and active streets on Namche Bazaar..."

"The Icefall is really a mess right now. Ang Nima, the Icefall Doctor, is still hard at work."

"It'll be a day I'll remember for the rest of my life..."

"They all started resting and putting on some glasses and getting ready when the wind started picking up really strong..."

"...the whole team left the South Col at quarter to midnight (11:45 pm). Everyone was feeling well..."

"We had an amazing day. We left Camp III at about 11 am and got up here in about four and a half hours..."

"You could have definitely summitted Everest yesterday, you could have definitely summitted today..."

"...the weather today was great, confirming the forecasts that the weather is going to get better in the next few days..."

"Fortunately...we lost no tents anywhere, even up on the Lhotse Face on those tiny little ledges where our tents are situated..."

"It's a decidedly upbeat tone here at Everest Base Camp this evening,..."

"...Brad Johnson and Maegan Carney, along with Grant Meekins headed down valley today..."

"The wind is still blowing like crazy up on the mountain..."

"But the winds at this point have us shut down..."

"We decided not to make our summit bid today as the high winds persisted..."

"...we're inside tents with 20 to 30 knot winds probably, gusting to 40 outside..."

"I plan to climb to the summit and then ski down to Camp II. But the team will spend that night again at Camp IV so I'll be alone..."

"In just a short while, all five of the climbing members of this team will be moving through the Khumbu Icefall once again, headed to Camp II..."

"Looking up high, there's no wind on the ridges. We had a very calm day here. And it was a calm day on the mountain as well..."

"Leila and myself, and Brad and David are here drinking in the thick air, recuperating..."

"We've seen more snow in the last 24 hours than we have for any 24-hour period since we arrived here..."

"There's a beautiful moon that's just about to rise over Lhotse - it looks like it's going to be spectacular..."

"We arrived and I looked around and I responded to David that you can never feel at home in a place this big..."

"Camp III is established and Wally plans on leaving Camp II tomorrow morning with the team to spend one night at Camp III..."

"It's the evening of October 3rd and I'm watching a beautiful, bright, half-moon come up over the Lhotse-Nuptse ridge..."

"We had a close scrape with another avalanche incident - this one much bigger than anything we've seen so far..."

"The Lhotse Face looks way ski-able this season. You can scarcely detect where the Yellow Band is, even on the skier's left side coming down..."

"I'm sitting watching it snow at Base Camp - we've got a long ways to go. But then we've got October..."

"Nima Tashi called and reported to me that a huge avalanche had occurred and the ladders and my pack were missing underneath all the debris somewhere, no doubt..."

"As it turned out, we had quite unsettled weather on our descent through to Base Camp, and really a significant amount of trail breaking..."

"Just before 5am this morning I heard a very big avalanche, the sound of a huge avalanche taking off the north face of Nuptse..."

"We got through the big crevasses to about 20,000 feet or so and lost our visibility and didn't like the prospect of continuing on to Camp II..."

"Garry, Maegan, David and myself moved through the Icefall today. Unfortunately, Brad Johnson...woke with nausea and some other symptoms that made him feel really weak today..."

"Brad Johnson got up early and did the first full carry that any of the climbing members of this team have done to Camp I..."

"At 11:15 am, Nima Tashi's voice burst on the radio from Camp I, proudly proclaiming Camp I had been established finally..."

"...I expect to learn that the Icefall Doctors, along with five of our climbing Sherpas, are going to make it all the way to Camp I today...."

"...yesterday morning Maegan and Grant Meekins left Base Camp for Lobuche peak..."

"The entire team moved together about 1100 feet up above base camp just to get a feel for moving together and to get some altitude under our belt, and to get some icefall mileage..."

"At about 2pm Brad Johnson walked into Base Camp, having come up the glacier on a rather sloppy, wet, grey, rain mixed with snow afternoon..."

"Today, we finally entered the Icefall. It was an exceptionally successful day, I would say. We advanced 600 meters of the route, fixing line..."

"Sherpas...will not go on to the mountain until they have asked the mountain gods for blessing and safe passage... There is a lot of praying, there is reverence, but also gaiety and celebration on puja day..."

"Our day began at 4:30 am at Gorak Shep when we awoke to climb up Kala Pattar and get views in the early morning light of Everest and the other great peaks in the area..."

"It's a really beautiful time as we approach Everest. Green, as I keep saying. Right now, there has been a soft rain in Gorak Shep..."

"We had an audience with Lama Gesu, a 71-year-old Lama at the Pangboche monastery. He's been a protector, a friend and an inspiration to some of my closest climbing friends over the years."

"We see virtually no other tourists or trekkers in the Khumbu this time of the year. The Sherpa are busy in their fields because it is harvest."

"Just what the official duties of a "Communications Manager" are has already been a topic of much discussion with this group."

"This is the first dispatch from the Berg Adventures 2003 Everest Expedition. Leila and I arrived here in Kathmandu on August 26th, the same day that Kellie Erwin and the BAI Kilimanjaro Lemosho Traverse team reached the top of Kilimanjaro."