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Camp 2 hold
27 May 2005    me-6400
Yoo-hoo, back at camp 2!
Talk about full, EVERYONE is here. Every team's climbers, Sherpas, and support staff. What does this tell me? Stay away from the crowds, wait for them to pass, then take a shot. Winds are high and erratic, meaning they are coming from every direction all at once.

Piers should be arriving to north side BC today, hope he's doing well.
I figure right now about a 20% chance of traversing, let alone summitting.
Bad odds? You betcha.
Game over? Not quite yet....
Luis Benitez

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Traverse Blues    25 May 2005
What can I say.....its amazing sometimes how we forget being up here isn't always about "when", it is very much sometimes about "if".
Piers has left to travel to the North sid

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All bets are off    22 May 2005
Strange creatures are about in the evenings around here, as seen in today's photo. Perhaps its just people blowing off steam due to all the weather delays? Or simply people losing their marbles...

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The Barber of Seville    18 May 2005
Shaving day....the day that the un-civilized, attempt to become human again.

I fondly remember being close to my grandfather as a small boy and wondering what that wonderful smell was. Turns

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