Miro Caban

I woke up worrying about my toes and the Germans. The fingers didn't get swollen but hurt intensively. With the sun reaching the camp we started packing up everything at 8:30 am. At nine I was putting on the boots. Interesting thing was that I felt better having my feet squeezed in the tight boots. The Russians passed by forming another wave to try for the peak but they were back in ten minutes. Their leader radioed them back and sent down finishing the expedition at Broad Peak since their major goal, same as mine, was the K2. The Russians also told me that the Germans reached the peak at about 7 pm and climbed down to the C3 through the whole night reaching it at 3 am.

I showed the Russians clouds forming in the shapes of small fish. I explained to them that we must hurry down since such clouds mean a negative change of weather within 24 hours. They stared at me but I kept telling them. This time the other way - in 7 hours the carrier and in eight me sat back in the BC. And we were happy to be there since my prediction was correct. The mountain is overcast and it is snowing up there. I tried to radio the Germans in the evening and was lucky. The leader explained to me that they were not able to go down that day since they were totally exhausted with no energy left for battling with the fresh snow. They were left there alone. All other expeditions went down to the BC.