marlonwarren - Jul 19, 2007 7:29 pm - Voted 10/10
Calm be the storm!You are a brave man. I have never been is such "hard conditons. 80 meters of altitude is a lot.
I am glad you made it to base camp OK.
peace
marlon
Nikman - Jul 20, 2007 7:53 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Calm be the storm!It was one of the hardest things in my life. It took us 13 hours to return to BC. If we wouldn´t been a team, maybe I´d stayed somewhere on that mountain, because I got really tired to the end of the decent. I was thinking: "I want to search for a bivi-place and jump into my sleeping bag" at some stages, and I think I would have done that if I had been alone.
We stopped at a glaciar traverse during our way back and I didn´t concentrate well, when taking off my backpack, so my sleeping back ran down the iceface. I was lucky it was not packed proper, so it didn´t go down straight, but turned in a circle into a crevasse area and stopped between some seracs. Recovering it, took another extra hour :-(
In Patagonia such weather drops are not so uncommon.
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