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Sunday, February 13, 2000
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Hi, Mountain Zone, Wally Berg here. "One Mountain at a Time" is calling you from 15,000 [Unintelligible] on Aconcagua. We were thrilled to have an honorary member join us today, Cathy Jakoway helped us carry up here, and actually set the pace the whole way up. Mike, Sal, Al and myself are happy to be up here — that trail hurt, there's a lot of scree that slides back on you as you're walking up. After three nights at 14,000 feet, our acclimatization is starting to kick in. [Unintelligible]
We just cached a lot of food. Basically we're stocking this mountain with 10 days of food to support our climbs above here, and now we're going to bail back down to Base Camp, rejoin Allen and Jose Luis' team, who are taking a full rest day at Base Camp, and regrouping after their successful summit attempt. We'll hook back up with Todd and other friends down there.
And we'll keep you posted as we continue our acclimatization and our efforts to get our supplies up this mountain and get underway with our summit attempt.
—Alpine Ascents Guide Wally Berg, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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