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The Study of Simone Moro
Dingboche - Tuesday, May 2, 2000

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Moro

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Ciao Mountain Zone, I'm Simone Moro again. In this moment it is evening time and we are in Dingboche. Dingboche is a village at 4,400 meter high, in front of the South Face of Lhotse, one of the two peaks that I want to reach to climb, and Ama Dablam, the only mountain very near 7000-meter peaks. Today is a special day because, even if yesterday I didn't call you, I meet my friend Francesco and Professor D'allaglio , the doctor since one year I'm working, and we are trying to do all the best to put me in the best condition to climb Everest and Lhotse.

So now the team is big because I am together with Denis — that he wants very much to return to Base Camp and try to complete our traverse and I am also happy to be with my friend because now I discovered that we have completely three different points of views to leave our experience.

But anyway, we are also enjoying all the visitors of Mountain Zone so today will start also three voices, voice dispatches, so you can have all the three different points of view, not only mine which is probably there's too much [Unintelligible]. But also my friends can help you to come with us, take you by hand and coming with me until the Base Camp and — why not — until the summit of Everest. Now Francesco will start with his voice dispatches. Anyway, tomorrow you will receive the daily report so don't worry. And today should be more beautiful and more funny, bye-bye.

Francesco:
Hello, this is Francesco. I am the "how did I end up here?" guy of this expedition. I'm a friend of Professor D'allaglio and, in the meantime, I became also friend of Simone Moro. What's interesting in this is that Professor D'allaglio , which has been working together with the group Right Power, which is a group of people studying how to increase the capabilities and the performance of extreme sport men, like Simone is.

They have been following him during the last year and they have been working on three different levels and on three different targets that they would like to reach, and these three are: first, enhance the power of Simone on the level of explosive strength, and toward the classical endurance, that is something that people search normally into... the power that a person has to bring out to make such a expedition like the one he is doing; the second thing that they are studying is a different kind of diet, which is going to be very, very near to the diet that Europeans have been used to during the [Unintelliegible] period; and the third thing that they want to follow, is the study of how bacteria of the intestine are working into the whole system of producing the energy that is essentially for such an expedition. This whole study is being followed by Professor D'allaglio at this moment, especially, and I will pass him to you, that he will tell us also a little bit about the whole thing, bye-bye.

Professor D'allaglio :
Hi, I'm D'allaglio . I'm following my friend Simone Moro and together with other my friends' friends. All of the dramatic study includes performance and the linkage between the performance and the lifestyle. Because there are so many different way to approach the chronic fatigue, or the problem of acute fatigue, especially in the extreme place. Now we are trying a new view, a new point of view, that's the model that you can join the bacterial flora and the free radical models in [Unintelligible] of the resistance and the over-adaptation in the... experiencing altitude. Around this thing in the next day, we normally perform some new dispatch, bye-bye.

— Simone Moro, Francesco, and Professor D'allaglio , MountainZone.com Correspondents

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