Last time I was sending a message over the phone we were back at the C1 altitude camp. 120 km/h wind had been raging around our tent for a whole day and night. It was terrible. I already experienced something like this on Cho Oyu where a hurricane pinned us in our tent for four days. Here Jan started to speak about claustrophobia already after one day. Well, it's nothing pleasant to be stuck in between narrowing tent walls in that tiny space. In the morning the wind weakened for a while so we quickly left. It was the second time we had to leave C1 without attempting for C2. Only after half an hour the wind was raging at its full power again. The powerful performance continued until the evening and onwards. Back in the ABC I found out that I left keys from the barrels in C1. The phone was of course locked in one of those so I couldn't send a message..
During the descent through the ice labyrinth we met first mountaineers. An Australian and a New Zealander accompanied by their sherpa. The Aussie said it was his fourth time here and he highly regarded our finding a way through the labyrinth and safely up to the C1. To pay back for our info and work he promised to help us to mark the way to C2. Well, if they will have a better luck and the weather will let them up to C2.
Back in ABC we caught yet up with Jiri Jakubec who had been already waiting for a yak. He told us that the Liaison Officer in fact told him that he would send a horse for Jiri's one barrel. Jiri was the third member of our small team and he was to climb with us only the first mountain Shisha Pangma. The fortune and the mountain turned their back to him and he didn’t summit. Same as us but Jiri’s time has come to an end and he’s now returning back to the Czech Republic.
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