Miro Caban

A beautiful morning as the sun started to lit the tent about 9 am. I made myself a breakfast and started to pack as I expected the second Russian tem to reach the C3 yet in the morning. I was all right as I looked down from the tent at 10 am and saw the first of them walking up. It took him another 90 min to come to the C3. Well, C3 is at 6900 m and the higher one even at 7000 m. That is where I will build my C3 tent today. When the Russian came a debate covering many topics started. He also thanked me for ploughing the path for him and said it was nice cooperation since his mates were already walking up to build the last C4 altitude camp. Well, I told him that it wasn’t t really like that since we were missing the snowshoes and it was us who will plough the path for the guys wearing shoes with crampons.

In another hour my altitude carrier came and in another 90 min we already cooked in my own set up C3 tent. We rejuvenated for the remaining part of the day and didn’t continue higher. Also the Germans reached C3 and thus all three expeditions were now present in the C3. Russians were eager to be the first on the peak thus they were 500 vertical meters in front of us as the first team built a tent at 7500 m.