Greetings to everyone out there.
This is Willi Prettie reporting from Mount Everest Base Camp. The entire team left this morning. We started out at 4:30 this morning under a beautiful clear starry sky and half moon. We successfully traversed the first complete climb of the Khumbu Icefall up to Camp I. Bob Murphy and I however turned back part way up. Having some bad days here and we're going to actually start out tomorrow morning and go on up and be reunited with the rest of our team at Camp I at about 19,700 feet.
The party at Camp I tonight relays down best wishes and love to all friends and relatives that are checking into the cybercast. Everyone did very well, traversed the Icefall in very good time up there. It's now about two hours after dark, and as you can well imagine at nearly 20,000 feet, everybody is well ensconced in their sleeping bags with hot water bottles.
[Satellite phone garbled out the rest of the message...]
