Dispatch 10: Base Camp Filling Up

GreatOutdoors, this is Dave Hahn and I'm standing out under the stars at base camp, and we've just finished our first whole day here and that news I was hinting at yesterday was true, and the icefall route as of yesterday is fixed all the way to Camp I and so our entire Sherpa climbing team is gong to make a big carry of gear tomorrow and try to establish Camp I. And that will be great. We sat here at base camp today, me and Larry and our trekker friends that were along with us, and just took it easy and tried to get used to the altitude, and our trekkers are heading out tomorrow, so Andrea and Katie and Mike are going to head out tomorrow and leave Larry and me to the climbing. We'll be sorry to see them go but we've got plenty to do here. Beautiful night tonight, clouded up a little bit this afternoon but not too bad. Now I'm standing out under the stars and there's lightning out there somewhere off in Nepal, I'm seeing flashes every now and then, but a pretty good day all in all, watching people stream in, camp is starting to fill up, it will fill up a lot more in the next week, there's going to be a lot of tents here on the south side of Everest. I'll let you know how it goes. This is Dave, out.