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May 8, 2002
Mountain Mail Everest 2002: Up to 23,500 Feet
Our top feature this week on MountainZone.com is the live reports from Mount Everest where the climbers have now made it to Camp III at 23,500 feet, where they will acclimatize before descending.... Next stops, Camp IV and the summit....Expedition Doctor Bryce Brown has sent a special report on high altitude medicine, from the Khumbu Cough to to Acute Mountain Sickness to the oft-deadly Pulmonary and Cerebral Edemas and Base Camp Manager Ellie Henke tells us what Base Camp is really all about....These stories and many more in Everest 2002.

EVEREST: Latest News
 • Latest Dispatch
• Dispatch Index
• Latest Photos
• Tragic News

CLIMB: Dave Hahn
 Hahn's Belated 9/11 reflections, "It wasn't my climb to cancel. I don't schedule climbs and I don't sell them. I just guide them."


MT. BIKE: Rey in Cuba
 A brutal three-day trip across the Sierra Maestra, climbing Cuba's highest peak, the 1st attempt on bikes.


EVEREST: Special Reports
 • High Alt. Medicine
• Hanna, 71, 4th Try
• Base Camp?
• Photo Galleries

CLIMB: Ed Viesturs
 This season, Viesturs is making his second attempt in three years on Annapurna, at 8,091 meters the 10th highest peak in the world.

SKI: Painful Rescue
 "...despite severe frostbite in his hands, the only way for him to reach the rescue helicopter was to scramble up a rope ladder."

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GEAR: Giro Helmet
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