30/05/2012
This is Dan Mazur checking in 27th of May. We're in Camp 3 at 8,300 meters. It's windy and gusty up here. A lot of really large cluds. It's our third day up here. We've been supporting our team of French, Swiss, Australian, Malaysian, and American...
Jan Smith is down at Camp 3. We're really pleased about that. She's okay. She's sleeping right now. Two Sherpas brought her down Tenji and Gyalje Sherpa. She did a fantastic job. She's really exhausted. She reached the summit about 6:30am. She turned 68 years old the 26th of May. She did an amazing job and really demonstrates what you can do when you really put your mind to it. You are never too old to climb Mt Everest I guess. At 68 years old, she's the oldest Australian, man or women, we know about. She did an amazing job.
I'd also like to take this moment to share a thought that is about Mr. Lincoln Hall who our SummitClimb team found in 2006 resting just below the summit early in the morning. Our team turned around and helped with so many other people to bring him back down. He lived another 6 years and died of cancer. What a sad way to go. But lucky he lived another 6 years after we were able to get him down from just below the summit of Everest at the "Mushroom Rock" at 8,600 meters. He was an incredible guy and we will miss him very much. We'd like to pay our respects to Lincoln Hall and what he did--an amazing Australian.
I'd also like to say our SummitClimb team in the last 2 days climbed 3 peaks [transmission garbled]...Everest Nepal side and Everest Tibet side. It was an incredible task. All of our team worked really hard. Incredible members from so many countries, along with great leaders, Sherpas, great workers and logistics and people from all walks of life and offices. We worked really hard to put a lot of people on the summit with no casualties. We couldn't have done it without all of you following us and following our progress. We're really proud of what we did. It was an incredible effort and we're so proud of everyone.
Thanks for following our expedition.
Wish us luck getting down. We're going to rest overnight up here at Camp 3 and then start down. It's still extremely dangerous to get down from here. We'll be moving slowly, carefully, walking down the mountain being careful and watching all the ropes...Hopefully in the next 2-3 days we'll be back in ABC. We'll be checking in.
Thank you very much.
