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Base Camp - Tuesday, April 25, 2000

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Moro

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Ciao Mountain Zone, today is the 25th of April, and this moment here it is 3:45pm and it is snowing, snowing again.

So today the plan was for going up, but we prefer to stay here because the sunny morning melted the snow. But now it's continues to snowing and not very hard. But anyway, the weather is very bad.

But anyway, the problem for tomorrow is that me and Denis want to go to Camp II, after tomorrow go to Camp III, the day after again go to South Col, sleep in the South Col [Unintelligible] 200 meter higher, so it's 8100-8200. And then coming down and we'll finish our acclimatization and our preparation for this effort.

After this effort, for the next days, we will go four or five days in Deboche, in the village at 3500 meter high so we can regenerate better, and as much as we can. And after that, we'll start definitely this effort.

So I hope that tomorrow morning will be sunny so the plan will not change.

But anyway, now the agreement is that also during my climb I will be in contact with Dan [Dan Morrison of Quokka Sports] by radio and so everyday he will send one email to Mountain Zone so you can know where I am and what I am doing. Bye-bye.

— Simone Moro, MountainZone.com Correspondent

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