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A Long Time Coming
Team 5: Summit - Thursday, June 13, 2002
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Hello cyberfans, once again this is Brennan Brunner, half of the guiding team of Alpine Ascents Denali group 5 Das Boots checking in again. I'm a single white male who enjoys pressure breathing, vigorous winds and the culmination of long-sought goals. On that note let me hand it over to two people who I think would very much like to say a few things.

I just want to say I love you to Nancy, Chad and Lacey, I'll be home for Father's Day if everything turns out right. My name's Glen and we summitted today on an awesome, beautiful, sunny day. Talk to you later.

" This is a long time in coming. We had been up at 17, or 17,200-foot camp, for several days with a weather forecast that looked downright non-promising..."

Hi, this is Mark Peterson and I want to say hi to Penny and Courtney, Morgan and McKenna, and the girls, daddy made it it to the top today. We're back here down at camp 5 at 17,000 and hopefully we'll be out in two days and I can't wait to see you guys. Hello to everyone in the DA's office, city of .... everybody at the Muscular Dystrophy Association. And mom and dad, love you, too. Talk to you later. Bye.

Yes, so as you'll surmise from that, we did in fact summit today. This is a long time in coming. We had been up at 17, or 17,200-foot camp, for several days with a weather forecast that looked downright non-promising. And today the skies cleared, very beautiful, just a treat to be up there.

Again, my name is Brennan Brunner and I guess if everyone is saying hi to loved ones, I'd be remiss not to say hi to my dear mother. And mother I made it to the top, I'm coming down and I'm coming back home soon.

So hope all is well. I'm sure we'll give a cybercast or two on the way out. We are going to try to head out fairly quickly as long as we have this good weather, and we look forward to seeing all of you. So hope all is well and look forward to our next transmission. This is Brennan from the big hill saying goodbye for now.

Brennan Brunner, Alpine Ascents International Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent