Dispatch 1: From Lobuche: Two Days to Base Camp

Hello GreatOutdoors.com. This is Dave Hahn. I'm on the International Mountain Guides 2006 Everest Nepal Trip. We've just gotten up to Lobuche, about 16,000 feet, we're still a couple of days from Base Camp, but now we're getting up where it's high and cold. Things are going pretty well. Weather hasn't been bad at all. We maybe had a couple of snow flurries the other day down at Dingboche but that was about it. So we've been blessed with some nice clear, sunny days, and as I say, as we're getting up a little higher here it's getting a little colder, but still pretty good climbing weather. We're about the first climbing team in on this side this year there are a few trekking teams around that we are encountering, but not many others as far as climbers go. Our team is doing pretty well. We're a pretty big group right now we've got a trekking component and a few climbers for Island Peak and the Icefall . . .(satellite transmission breaks up).