Summit Bids Begin

Namaste, Mark Tucker here at Everest Base Camp. Sitting around com tent. Dave's down, chewing the fat with Brian and Jongbu. A nice day. Our trekking team is visiting us for a couple of days, heading down valley, they are going to attempt Mt. Lobouche. All going on as you can imagine. We got our first wave, one is at Camp II, the others at Camp I and ready to start pushing up. Fixing team is on schedule and heading to the Col very soon. Weather seems to be cooperating. There is a disturbance in the Bay of Bengal that we are monitoring, but the forecast is that it shouldn't really affect. But boy, once again, we'll keep close track of, if necessary people can drag their feet at Camp II, and we have another wave heading up tomorrow and a wave after that, so we are, boy, all fired up here right now and hoping for the best. We'll let you know tomorrow how it's going. Wishing everybody well. We heard it was 90 degrees in Seattle today, not quite that warm here, we had a little bit of light snow and there has been some high clouds moving through, but nothing to slow the operation down. Got a good group of Sherpa heading up tomorrow in support of future activity and couple of the superstars who will be helping with the fixing are enroute tomorrow as well. So man, it's coming along. Thanks for listening.