Good morning everybody out there in Mountain Zone cyberland, this is the last cybercast from the South Col at just under 26,000 feet on Mount Everest. We're all in the hasty throes of packing up and heading down and beat a forecasted heavy snowstorm that is headed our way.

Everybody slept exceptionally well last night on oxygen after a very, very hard day on the mountain. It was very hard trailbreaking in deep snow, but even if you're following in deep snow often that's a very taxing thing so everybody was very tired down here.

Right now, we're out of here. We're looking forward to thicker air, I know that's a little bit of a strange thing to say about 21-and-a-half thousand feet at Camp II, but it is definitely thicker than 26,000 feet or 29,000 feet.

We're heading on down and we're also looking forward to, in the very near future in our lives, having chang, beer, Johnnie Walker Black, Cuervo, good food and good showers, goodbye.

— Willi Prittie, Alpine Ascents International Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent

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