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Summit Build-up delayed a littleWe are ready to hit the mountain but is it ready for us? Amanda is on the mountain, Gord and Haruki off, Mike Jamie and Malte delay their departure 17 JulyGordon and Haruki returned from Camp 2 or as Gordon calls it, "the great escape". The forecast snow was mainly fine periods. Amanda has a thick book and is at Camp 2. We have a thick chunk of Grana (Italian cheese), and Fiorentina salami courtesy Chris, so no wonder we couldn't escape the delights of BC. |
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A sunny lunch, but did we go the next morning? No. It was snowing with low visibility.
Here is the kitchen team cooking yet another rice and veg lunch - perhaps the last BC lunch for many of us. |
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18 July - waiting in BC 4825mSome of us actually woke up early, but that is all that happened. It was snowing and windy and foggy. The French say they never work on Sunday, anyway, but they have been cutting the cheese - what, no, we don't have any Italian cheese! We have demolished two and a half kilos. We don't have any English but still we should talk about the weather. We hope there is a good weather window approaching, but it is staying tantalizingly at the end of the forecast - we live in hope. Seriously though, with the latest bad weather the snow conditions higher up should be much better (no wading?) and a finer, stable patch of weather is expected. We WILL be out of contact for 5-6 days, perhaps a WEEK or more. No email while climbing the mountain, we have more important things to do. |
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© Jamie McGuinness - Project-Himalaya.com - updated 18 Jul 2004 |
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