Tuesday, May 23. 2006
Harry called to leave us a short update. I'll try to add a link to the message, but here are the words that I can make out between his coughing. It sounds like there's someone coughing on the background, but that may be Harry too...
Hello everyone this is Harry calling from 7600 meters. The weather is beautiful, we just came up in four and a half hours from North Col. We're looking down now at ABC 1200 meters below, the views are amazing [...] it's very nice here. Now we're in camp 2, tomorrow we'll try to reach camp 3 at 8300 meters. If we're strong enough we'll continue to the summit the same night, 'we' is Thomas and I, [...] and 6 sherpas. It should be safe and easy to go up...
cough cough, click
http://sightoneverest.com/audio/everest-20060523.mp3