Plotting and Planning as Summit Bids Near

Hey, this is Dave Hahn, calling from Advance Base Camp, Mt. Everest, at about 21,300 feet. Nicky and Sanduk and I moved up this morning, nice clear morning after it had been cloudy and snowy most of yesterday. Real clear, real pretty morning and we made good time getting up here to Camp II, ABC. A number of our Sherpas got up to the South Col today, 26,000 feet. Our hope is to go to Camp III tomorrow, we'll see if we can sleep up there. So we are getting good help from our Sherpa team, more of them are going up tomorrow. Most of, well, all of our climbing team members are down at base camp or in villages down valley, resting up, and plotting their summit bids, and as well pretty much all the members of all the other teams, so in those terms we are a little bit behind the rest of those groups. But I don't really feel that way, but I feel like our timing is pretty good here if we can pull off this acclimatization round, my guess is we are going to be looking just fine as far as the summit bids go. There's  a lot of plotting and planning down below, right now, our team leaders Mark Tucker and Ang Jangbu are in consultations with a bunch  of other teams right now to figure out how the final act  is going to work as far as teaming up with other groups to fix ropes up high, I like where we are right now, if we can just stay healthy a few more days I think this is going to work out great. Bye for now.