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.
Broad Peak base camp
Very early start today, I assume to avoid glacier melt as much as possible. Woke up before it even started getting bright. The terrain the same rolling glacier landscape as the days before. Lots of up-and-down, pretty exhausting.
The first few days
The route up to almost 7000m altitude on Aconcagua is a long one. I’ll write about the “world below” (Mendoza and the area) later. Our route, the “Polish traverse” goes up the Vacas valley to the base camp at Plaza Argentina. On the way we had lunch at some roadside restaurant where we met another team (of two + guide) who were going up the “normal route.”
エルブルスが見えてくる
7月16日いよいよロシアのエルブルス山、ヨーロッパの最高峰に向かって出発した。荷物は95lのダッフルと55lのリュック。運よく飛行機の重量制限にピッタリとハマって追加請求が避けられた。とはいえ、石神井から成田までその合計30キロ以上を、朝の通勤ラッシュの中で運ぶのは決して楽しいことではなかった。
