Miro Caban

Because of my chilblains we set off at 6 am when the sun already shines warmly. It is 700 vertical meters to overcome to the C1. The declination is quite steep and with the entire load in our backpacks it's a tough workout. The first half was rather a pain for me. For 14 days I had been waiting for a better weather and during the time I tried to cure my chilblains. But all the rest & relax and doing of not that much rather harmed my fitness level. So during the first half of the trek I was struggling so much that every step I made was making me angry. At that point my brain said a strict: No!

I sat down and tried to calm down. Besides the pain from toes chilblains there was also lot of jitteriness. For about half an hour I kept thinking about how to calm down myself since my mindset was quite bad. I reached for a piece of chocolate and my thermo flask with juice I prepared in the morning. Ghulam, my altitude carrier, meanwhile disappeared up there and I was left completely alone with my problems. The stop helped and shortly after I continued to the C1. To reach it took me 7 hours so I stayed there to sleep over - at 6000m. Before falling asleep I kept thinking about what was happening with me down there. I laid totally exhausted in my sleeping bag and waited how would I be in the morning.