(First call)
Hey MountainZoners, this is Vern Tejas high on the flanks of Mount Vinson. Finally, we started moving today. The weather has improved a little bit, but it's enough to make us antsy, so away we go. We dropped the tents and folded everything up, put it on our backs. The sleds will no longer be functional, because we're heading up to steeper country.

First we come around the corner and we hit a wind that we've been watching from afar, and now we're in it. I'm guessing it's about 30 knots, or excuse me, 30 kilometers on the nose...(transmission ends).

(Second call)
I believe that satellite dropped me. This is Vern Tejas, once again, from Mount Vinson, Antarctica. I'll finish off my report by giving you the stats for the evening.

Ok, currently 86 percent oxygen saturation, pulse 87. Altitude: new camp, camp II. We're at 3,770 meters above sea level, that's 12,370 feet above sea level. Again, that dropped our barometer down. Our barometric pressure is now 611 millibars, -22 centigrade, -8 fahrenheit, 25 kilometers per hour wind. Currently we have 7/8 of the sky obscure with a foggy kind of cloud. I believe we're kind of in the bottom of a lenticular here.

We're camping at S78 degrees 29 minutes 283/1000ths. And that's W85 degrees, 41 minutes, 967/1000ths. We traveled 2.72 kilometers from Camp I to Camp II, and we're at -51 wind chill factor.

Join me tomorrow for either another storm day or summit day. Oh, just for anyone interested, during the day my pulse was bouncing off 130, while I was pulling up the hill with a big pack on. And then at rest it was 90. And that was basically an average.

Ciao for now, this is Vernon Tejas, signing off, from Mount Vinson, Antarctica.

— Vern Tejas, expedition leader and MountainZone.com correspondent