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Travelling First Class
Wednesday, December 22, 1999
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Buenos días, Mountain Zone. This is Vernon Tejas with Alpine Ascents' Team Mileno broadcasting from Base Camp, just in the shadow of Mount Aconcagua. We're broadcasting from an altitude of 4,160m above sea level. The whole team dug deep today. We've moved up from down on the Vacas River all the way up to the [Unintelligible] Valley and here we are. After 14 hours of being awake and working hard, Yahoo! We're all [Unintelligible]. [Cheers from team members in background.] The spirits are kind of lightening.
The cook has just put out a spread that you can't believe. Ladies and gentlemen: we've got Spanish rice; we've got chopped vegetables; we've got hot cocoa to go; we've got crumble bread. Now picture if you will, crumble bread, someone went to the effort to the effort today to crumble the bread so we can put it into our soup. Now, that is first class. And remember what they say, 'It costs a little more to go first class...' [transmission fails].
—Vernon Tejas, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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