by Karin at 03:54 PM (PDT) on April 29, 2005
We are currently a bit on hold in ABC. Camp 4 has not been able to be established because of bad weather. It snowed several inches last night and it feels like Christmas here. Our plan is to go up high in a couple of days (when the weather is better) and then we rest at BC for about 5 days and then we wait for a weather window to attempt the summit. Camping at the North Col (7030m) is quite interesting. It is so cold that all the moisture you exhale in your breath turns to frost and snow in the tent so that by morning it is a pain to move around for lots of snow constantly falling. We hope to be ready for a summit push by the 13th. Also, since Brook is gone we have been using Jamie McGuinness’ computer for the email stuff. We have added a link to his website to the right side of the blog site. It might be interesting for people to read some of their dispatches as well. We are camped right next to each other at ABC. Michael