The Untruth

The chilblained toe got worse yesterday so I visited this morning a Belgian doctor who has 15 years of experience of taking care of mountaineers. The outcome is this - new medicaments, an advice to walk as less as possible (which I did anyway) and dip it extensively in warm water. And yes, loose boots... A bit pessimistic analysis, same as from the Russian doctor. I must be as much as possible in the tent and keep my feet in the warmth of the sleeping bag. That's all to my chilblains from Broad Peak.

As it seems to be common regarding my person a message appeared on the Internet, which can be even see as a defamation, saying "... about 150m from our tent city with the national flag fluttering in the middle of it hides a lonely Czech Miroslav who has been going wide around our tents, pretending not to exist and doesn't saying even hello ..."

A pure bullshit made up by somebody was put on the Internet. I took it as an immediate invitation for visiting this expedition. So I went to talk to them about it this noon. I told them that as many steps I have to their tents for a visit, the same they have to mine. It was a coincidence that I didn't meet anybody in their camp. I went through it three times on the way to the Russians (whom I cooperated with on the Broad Peak) who cared for my chilblains. On the way back I had no mood for a visit to anybody.

That I'm hiding in the tent? I hope they were not aware of my chilblains which you have to keep in warm. I was so angry about the defamation that I even forgot to tell them about my problems possibly leading 'me hiding in the tent'. If there's sun I will try to warm my feet in front of my tent in the direct sunlight.

I also spend quite some time in the mess tent with an Iraqi mountaineer (38 years old) and a French mountaineer (60 years old). Both are very good guys, as is the cook as well, so we talked for hours in the tent he cooks in. We stopped using the other mess tent and eat in this one altogether with sherpas, the cook and his assistant. Together we have lots of fun while I bath my feet in warm salted water.

Despite of the forecast for unstable weather Koreans went up this morning. But I will wait for the real summit day which should also give me a bit more time for curing the chilblains. The forecast remains bad and the expeditions keep watching the raging wind and snowing on K2.

Miro