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Strobe-Light Disco Show
Tuesday, January 4, 2000
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Buenos días, Mountain Zone. This is Vernon Tejas with Alpine Ascents International Team Milenio. Well yesterday, we were successful as a couple of days before and so now we've been resting down in our tents and we've been pummeled. We've been getting hit by 74km-an-hour-type winds. Time to just kind of break out real slow and easy this morning because today we descend from High Camp down to Base Camp.
So we're just cooking; you might hear the cooker in the background getting some breakfast on. And everybody's a little antsy to get out of here and get back down where the oxygen is thick and where life is easy. As a matter of fact, our Base Camp Manager has suggested that by the time we get there they'll have some pizzas worked up for us. So we're looking forward to that — some camp stove pizzas awaiting us!
The other thing I'd like to just mention because it's been so spectacular throughout is the light shows that we've been having almost nightly. Looking out to the east, from the mountain, big thunderheads have built up every night and the lightning flashing back and forth between the clouds has been spectacular. It's been much more obvious recently now that the moon's waning and we can look out there and watch this strobe-light disco show going on in the night.
We can't hear the thunder because they're 40 or 50 miles away to where the storms are, but every night when we go out to talk to nature it's quite a light show and we've been enjoying that. Just one of those things you wouldn't even think about, thinking about climbing a mountain that you were going to get this spectacular display of nature. Every night we've been able to look out and enjoy that. Just one of the things I wanted to leave you with and we'll talk to you from Base Camp next. All right, this is Team Milenio saying ciao for now from Argentina.
—Vernon Tejas, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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