So it’s April Fools’ Day but we are not much into fooling or fun today. Fortunately, all of us are doing fine but the overall tiredness from the accumulated vertical meters and all the climbing is immense. It’s good that we have finished with building up our base. We cleaned up our tents, finished the installations in the mess tent and erected a tent for our barrels. The latter one is also called as the communications tent because we installed the cables coming from our generator inside it and because we can communicate with the rest of the world via emails and a satellite phone from there. The generator is working so recharging of our equipment, including the GPS equipped Suunto X9i should work alright. First I recharged the satellite phone so that I was able to send you these latest news.
What’s coming next? Tomorrow we are going to see the beginning of the icefall in order to search for the best way to pass it through and along on our way to the first altitude camp C1. Since we are the first expedition here and no previous information is available, we have to survey the whole track through the icefall in order to know exactly how much we will be able to carry over to the C1. The total ascent to C1 will be 1000 vertical meters so the track will not be easy. We will see soon...
Greetings to all of you,
Miro Caban
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Hi Miro,
it's awsome to read your stories.
Thanks to you and your amazing stories my 9to5 office job has a flavour of adventure ;-)
I wish you and your team all the best and that all of you stay healthy. make sure you always have additional USD 50 with you !
greetings from europe
martin
Post a Comment