Dispatch 31: Cool Hand Luke Steals the Show

Hey this is Dave calling from Camp II at 21,350 at the head of the Western Cwm on Mount Everest. I'm taking it easy today, resting up, got up early enough to watch a lot of the comings and goings. Pretty interesting morning, the wind came on again, actually a blizzard most of the night, our folks who were spending the night up at III said it was blowing pretty loud, obnoxious, moving a lot of snow around up there. Those folks did great, they all came down this morning, Justin is back down here sleeping at Camp II tonight. We saw our Sherpa team from here made it to Camp III okay with their loads but in really hard conditions. I watched dozens, dozens of pretty good strong climbers and Sherpas walk part way and turn around in the wind. So our guys did an amazing job getting up there today. But the wild story again is the dog, the dog that's been up here at ABC who's been running laps up to the bergschrund. Everybody's been coming up with all sorts of cute names for him the past few weeks, but now we know his name. Last night he got into our food he ate 30, count them, 30 hardboiled eggs. So he's Cool Hand Luke. The dog is now Luke. He seemed to be doing really well today with all those eggs in him, I watched him make about five runs up to the bergschrund from here, which normally takes people about an hour and a half. He's doing good, I'll let you know how he progresses. Bye now.