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Knocking on Wood
Tuesday, December 28, 1999
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Buenos días, Mountain Zone. This is Vern Tejas with Alpine Ascents and the "Millennioids." Boy are we having fun; we laid around and ate and drank and slept, and ate and drank and slept today. What we're doing is preparing ourselves to go up to 19,000ft or just about 6000m. Currently we're at the Camp I on the Aconcagua Polaca Route, at 5000ft, and having a rest day. It's been wonderful; we're telling jokes and everyone's oxygen saturation is looking better. And hopefully tomorrow, weather permitting, we'll climb to Camp II. I say weather permitting because right now we're having wind out of the west at about 41km/h and that could build overnight or it could dissipate and we're, of course, knocking on wood and hoping that it is going to dissipate.
So come tomorrow morning, we are going to get up bright and early, trying to get high on the mountain and then position ourselves for a shot at the summit come the millennium. So please stay with us and we will report to you all the action here on Aconcagua and from the millennium climb, looking forward to the new future of the next year, and the next century and the next millennium. Here's to ya'. Ciao for now from Argentina.
—Vernon Tejas, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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