Shigatse, Tibet (via satellite phone)
Elevation: ???
Partly Cloudy and 65F
9:00 pm Tibetan time

Eric Brown's First Report

This Eric Brown with the Patagonia Mountain Agency calling you from Shigatse, Tibet. Don't ask me to spell that. It is currently 9 o'clock in the evening, April 10th. We're a day ahead of everybody. Today's weather was partly cloudy, high about 65.

We drove to Shigatse today, from Yangtze, which we were at last night. We're about half way to base camp and we have three days of sight seeing and driving closer to base camp as part of the acclimatization. Everybody is doing well other than some headaches and some diarrhea. Well, not full-blown diarrhea, but close. And we're having a good time. Everybody is getting along.

The other dispatches will have additional information, in term of different people. We're planning to have little interviews with all the different clients, the climbers. So this is mainly just a test Real Audio so my friend James can make sure everything works and goes well. So, hopefully I don't sound too distorted. Look forward to hearing from me again or Talli Leach.

Thank you. Over and out.

[Photo courtesy of Soraya Toosi.]