Will Cross, the Highland Park adventurer with type 1 diabetes, is expected to reach Camp 1 tomorrow, where he will stay one night at 19,500 feet high, before returning to Base Camp through the Khumbu Icefall.

That climb will begin the long process of acclimating himself to high altitudes in preparatioin for climbing Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak at 27,890 feet in the Himalayan Mountains, sometime in May.

His wife, Amy Cross, said the Chinese government has restricted his satellite telephone calls to her and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette because China is preparing to have climbers scale Mount Everest, next to Lhotse, with the Olympic Torch in May. Climbers use many of the same camps to access both mountains.

Mrs. Cross said she's preparing to travel to Nepal to be at Base Camp during her husband's upcoming climb of Lhotse.