Today, we carried some of our personal equipment up to C1 in preparation
for occupying the camp tomorrow. We will continue to leave a small
staff presence in our present camp with integral life support
should any members need to descend to the lower altitude. The
weather today was not as kind as yesterday with icy winds circulating
around the couloir removing what little snow fell overnight. Notwithstanding
this 10 members of the team were able to gain the upper glacier
and unload their kit - this has all been lashed down firmly to
snow stakes driven into the glacier, so that hopefully it will
still be in the same place tomorrow!
Due to the difficult conditions in the West Col we have had to
rethink the volume of equipment that we take up to Camp 1, and
this includes the power and generation equipment. We will only
be taking the solar charging system and a single battery (18kg
12v DC) and for the Baruntse climbing phase we may have to rationalise
our reports (i.e. one every other day) and some may not contain
images. However we will do our best to keep the information as
up to date as possible.
