Everest 2006: ANDALUCIA EVEREST EXPEDITION: ANDALUCIA EVEREST ABC

The cameraman and the journalist will be able to leave Katmandu next Saturday in the afternoon.

The members of the Andalucia Everest Expedition, Pedro Lopez and Juan Antonio Huisa are still in Advanced Base Camp, acclimatizing at an altitude mark of 6,400 meters and with some symptoms of mountain sickness.  The two Andalucian mountain climbers will remain at least one more day at ABC before doing any other attack to the successive camps.

If everything goes fine, the climbers will be fit to face the attack to the summit on the third week of May.  The date everybody agrees upon coincides with the full moon of May.

On the other hand, journalist Javier Blazquez and cameraman Daniel Bueno have been able to setup their return trip from the capital of Nepal for next Saturday in the afternoon, so they could arrive to Madrid Sunday morning, but they still have no connecting flight to continue their trip to Sevilla.

In Nepal the situation seems to be back to normal and the life in the city is more or less normal, with the omnipresent and numerous military presence in every corner and in the streets, but with open stores and the usual chaotic traffic.  Today, it was a day for pacific politic meetings for different parties and since two days ago there are no revolts or marches, gas can be bought and downtown has its usual noise of ambulant salesmen, tourists and taxis.

Translated from Spanish by Jorge Rivera

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