For the past week, we’ve been waiting for two things: first, for the team cargo to arrive, and second for the weather to clear.
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It’s been snowing most days, most nights. On the one hand this means that going for a hike doesn’t entail struggling with loose rock on the glacier. With the snow covering the rocks, it’s much (much) easier to walk not to mention seeing where the trail is.
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When the weather allowed, I’d go for walks over the glacier upwards, a few times all the way to the K2 base camp. It’s not much altitude gain, but enough up and down for a light workout.
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When the weather wasn’t nice enough to hike, I’d be in my tent reading. I finished Rendezvous with Rama, the latest volume of No Game No Life (my two new books) and Designing Data-Intensive Applications. I’m already nearing the end of the DevOps Handbook too.
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Luckily after much delay (causing some tensions) our cargo with food supplies, ropes and other high-altitude equipment has arrived. This means that as soon as the snow on (and around) the route consolidates, our Sherpa squad can set out to fix ropes.
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There has been so much snowfall that now that the weather’s improved, there are avalanches going off almost non-stop from the mountains around the glacier. Only two off Broad Peak were big enough that the wind reached camp. They were like 5-minute intense mini-blizzards covering everything in snow.
Ez fantasztikus! Ma írtad, s már olvassuk is! Szóval, kezd élesbe fordulni a dolog? Tudták rögzíteni a köteleket a sherpák? S ha igen, mikor lesz az indulás? S hányan, kik vagytok a csapatban? Lehet velük barátkozni? Hiszen nagyon egymásra lesztek utalva. A sherpák készítik ekő a következő tábort is? S az milyen magasságban lesz?
Elkepeszto latni a lavina ‘szelet’ – nekunk itt lenn a civilizacioban fogalmunk sincs mekkora ereje van a termeszetnek. Neha nem is ertem mi keresnivalonk ebben az egeszben…
Remelem a pulzusod rendezodott! Es hogy kozben vece is lett 🙂