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Changes in team status

Pat Chan / 26.06.2007

The leaderboard may seem a bit fluid if you've been checking back often. Because the race is really in two stages and some other environmental factors, teams that have requested assistance and returned to base camp are not, at this time, considered out of the race.

So, Teams Energetic and Intrepid Travel are still considered ranked and we'll post further updates as soon as we get more information from the Race Director.

The current situation for the two teams is that they may be allowed to proceed from Base Camp (CP 11) later today.

I talked to both Intrepid Travel and Energetic when they returned to Base Camp and both teams said they ran into very difficult terrain and got cliffed out. They felt the situation was too dangerous to continue and both chose different routes back to safety.

By all accounts it's very difficult terrain out there and teams I've talked to all report the same steep terrain even though they were all in different locations.

Stay tuned for more information as the race unfolds.

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