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Blue Skies and T-Shirts
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
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Good evening, this is Willi Prittie reporting from Argentina, with the Alpine Ascents International Aconcagua program. We've had a wonderful day today; we did our first carry up to Camp I and everybody was [Unintelligible] in very, very good time, despite taking a detour, cut-around trail around the [Unintelligible] Penitentes instead of dealing with the loose scree trail on the final few hundred feet to Camp I.
We had beautiful, T-shirt weather at Camp I, too, which was very enjoyable. We actually spent about an hour and a half hanging out, breathing the high-altitude air, to help the acclimation up there. Through the very, very...[Unintelligible]...in the sun. Once again, it reminds me that this year's definitely a much more normal year than we've had in the past six years or so. We're all very definitely enjoying it.
Right now we're all in the Base Camp tent kind of just sitting around waiting for the nice, fresh vegetable stew to digest. We also enjoyed a nice, fresh, raw vegetable salad, some soup, all kinds of good things like that, and hot drinks will be up soon. I think we'll have to break out the Argentinean maté and give some people a taste of Argentina here and see what they have to say about it.
Our plans are, tomorrow, we're going to take another rest and acclimation day here at Base Camp, before we'll actually move up. We're going to all keep our fingers and toes crossed that the weather actually maintains its nice, stable, good weather period that we're in right now — [Unintelligible] mountain services, Aconcagua [laughter in background]. Okay, and we had a special request from Robin to say hello to Preston and Nolen [Unintelligible voices in background] and a special hello to the four other members of the Ridgewood Mountaineering Club in New Jersey. And well, that's all for now and we'll be calling again with future updates and let you know how the lounging, rest day goes, tomorrow.
—Alpine Ascents Guide Willi Prittie, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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