On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:14:49 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

You have way much too much faith in journalists to report accurately or
question the information they are given from "experts". I suspect they
were told that the altimeter had regsistered a maximum of 9947m.

It did register that. There was a shot on News24.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.

Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather