Team arrives at Base camp

 

Hi everyone this is Ben calling here from Manaslu. We made it to base camp today! It’s a beautiful base camp here. A little bit of rain little bit of clouds for the most part today. Just finished up dinner and we’re getting ready for bed. Got a great base camp here nice and quiet area of base camp. Base camp is quite large but we got a bunch of rain this afternoon once we got moved in here camp here is that 16,000 feet. Jim and Dan are doing great doing really good and we’re trying to get the Wi-Fi solution figured out if you’re following along from home and both Jim and Dan haven’t talked to you yet that’s why. We haven’t gotten the Wi-Fi set up and running yet but hopefully by tomorrow you’ll be hearing from them but everybody’s doing great. Our crew is all doing well here. We’re gonna rest tomorrow and then we’re gonna do a ceremony the following days so we will be in base camp for a couple days here just kinda getting organized and used to 16,000 feet. Everybody’s doing great and says hello to everybody following along back home. I’ll talk to you again tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

 

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