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30 April 2006, 10:19

The large part of our expedition stay at height 6400m now, in the ABC camp. And tomorrow we plan climb up to the North Col. Today command under Igor Svergun`s leadership, two Norwegians, Dane and Noel Hanna from Ireland, reached the North Col. 2-3 day before, Sherpas could completely establish our camp on height 7100 meters.

The first time in the history of Everest, a large tent was established on the Col, dining room and kitchen - simultaneously. In this tent a high-altitude cook works now, who must prepare food both for members and for sherpas. There are 4 tables, 16 chairs in the tent, also we want to conduct electricity from the solar battery. Usually, in the camp on the saddle members and sherpas passed nights and prepared food in small tents. This was the reason for disorder and inconveniences. Sometimes this led even to the diseases. We hope that our innovation will be pleased and we will always place comfortable camp on the North Col.

There was a connection with Valery Babanov, he said that constantly snow falls, difficult to establish camp ABC at 6100 meters. We have a very similar situation, each day is snowing. I do not remember such bad conditions in 5 years, in the camp ABC the depth of snow – up the elbow. Tomorrow we plan to bless our ABC camp, the lama will arrive. For this we had supplied beer and Coca-Cola on the yaks. And tomorrow we leave to the North Col 7100 m high. This is the sequential stage of our acclimatizing program.