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Update K2 base camp 6/27

Alfred Schreilechner Broad Peak and K2 Expedition 2004 update 12 and 13

Finally the weather has turned nice. Yesterday evening the clouds started
disappearing and today were a beautiful morning. It is still very cold and
so the snow sticks to the mountain. We hope that there are more avalanches
tomorrow so we can start our ascent on Broad Peak on Tuesday without playing
Russian roulette. Yesterday and today we had meetings of the expedition
leaders to discuss themes like tents, ropes, accidents, the weather report
and radio frequencies. We had a basic agreement on all these tasks, thus
the climate in BC is very good. This afternoon Peter, Fred, Chad, Rory and
I had a separate meeting with the Japan Dosanko Team about the Cesen (SSW)
route. If the conditions on the mountain allow we want to climb it together.
The weather report for the coming week is good, so hope has come back for
making some summits. Three guys from the Austrian Mountain Guides Team have
paid us a visit today and we were talking for a while before they left
again for BP Basecamp.