Mt. Everest 2005: Gavin Bate: Gav reporting in Live from Everest

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Two Updates below

Update: Gav reports that the weather is still good at Camp 2 - but much worse on the higher slopes. Despite this, his plan to set off later today (UK time) to head straight to the South Col is still on. From there he'll wait for a couple of hours and get some rest before heading to the summit hopefully on Saturday night/Sunday morning (UK time)! His battery power is low so will be saving it for higher up.

Gavin LIVE from Everest

Update: Conflicting weather reports : There are vastly conflicting reports as to the weather over the next couple of days so Gav may well now go down to Camp 1 or BC and wait. Some teams are going up to Camp 3 tomorrow - but he has no camp three so he's not willing to forge ahead!

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