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Two Tons of Gear and Food
Seattle, WA - Friday, March 21, 2003

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Greetings everyone, this is Todd Burleson, reporting from the Alpine Ascents Offices in Seattle. It's quite a scene right now, we are packing up food and equipment for the trip which leaves next week. We generally send over two tons of gear and food, about 40 boxes of food, from the States to supplement the fresh food that we get directly in Nepal. It's hard to stay interested in food when you're up that high, and an 8000 meter climber especially needs to eat a lot more than usual, and we make sure to have a wide variety of tasty snacks drinks and meals that will interest the appetite while at altitude. We have a fabulous cooking staff at Base Camp and up on the mountain which helps as well.

We have to get all this food and gear up to Base Camp and then on up the mountain, it's one of the most important areas of preparation for a trip like this. This stuff will travel by van, plane, bus, plane, yak, back and by hand across the world to Everest.

I also just found out today that one of my yaks up in Alaska, Annie, just gave birth to a healthy 40lb. boy, so congratulations to Annie and of course Ruth who assisted in the delivery.

Vern or Willie will probably send one more dispatches before heading over to Nepal next week and regular dispatches will begin once they have hit the trail up the Khumbu, the first week of April. Here's Todd and the rest of the office staff wishing everyone a peaceful weekend.

Todd Burleson, Alpine Ascents International Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent

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