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Tuesday, January 4, 2000

Todd
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Hi, it's Todd. We're at the Ngorongoro Crater. We lost power for a day or so; got the battery charged, hope you can get this message. It was a beautiful final-day descent down from Mweka. It wasn't too muddy of a trail, but lots of roots and people slipping and sliding. When we got down to Base there was a huge band playing. Turned out about 1500 people climbed Kilimanjaro during the day-and-a-half of millennium, and it was amazing. I have never seen that many people up there before. But we had a great success and everybody but one summited, and looking [Unintelligible] high on the crater rim – wind's blowing right now, it's late at night.

We did a day in Tarangire and saw a variety of animals and a lion with a zebra kill, and a couple of leopards in the trees and most of the big five. Ngorongoro today and tomorrow morning we'll go into the crater and we'll see all of those animals. It's been a fantastic trip [Unintelligible] beautiful and the stars are out, looking at the Southern Cross tonight. And tomorrow morning we'll go into the crater and view, hopefully, some rhinos and some lions and then head off to Serengeti. We've heard that the migration is big there right now so hopefully we'll see lots and lots of wildebeest. I hope everybody's great there and that your new millennium is fantastic. Bye-bye.

Todd Burleson, Alpine Ascents Founder Reporting for MountainZone.com



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