K2 Resists To Mountaineers

Though weather showed its better side to us and a nice day was here, all expeditions kept waiting until avalanches would fall down. Nobody started to go up the mountain in the early morning. Thus at 6 am I was taking photos of the ice fall and during that I decided to count the avalanches. Six big ones within half an hour and then I got tired of it and focused on the photography business. The idle attitude of the expeditions was just right as avalanches kept falling until through afternoon, though not at the morning frequency.

My plan was to set off with Ghulam in the afternoon for the ABC. But before that few trekkers from Czech Republic visited us and we had a lunch together in my mess tent. Thus we departed with one hour delay at 3 pm. The good part of that was that the sun already disappeared behind the clouds and we didn't have to walk in the hot. By crossing the ice fall we moved by 300 vertical meters up to the ABC which is at 5300m. Since Russians moved from BC to ABC as well, we weren't there alone.