Altitude: 5300m
Atmospheric Pressure: 560mbar
Trek: 0kms
After having investigated 2 potential rescue plan for my
expedition yesterday (Phurba and Adventure Consultant which turned out
negative), we started the day with another option (PeakFreaks), which also
turned out to be a dead end once we’d walked to the camp and spoke to Tim, the
base camp manager.
Having walked back to our base camp, and fed back to Monica
and Adrian, they, yet again, came up with another possibility, the Patagonicas
Brothers, a small outfit,
led by 2 experienced twin brothers.
They are the first outfit to be able to take us on and it’s
now a question of cost.
Because of Adrian
with us, they’re happy for us to mix with them, or to do our own thing, which
is great.
Adrian and Monica have been awesome in helping us in our
quest, using their contact and experience and never giving up.
The atmosphere in the camp is poor, most of the soldier guys
are gutted and want to get out of here, but need to wait till the 12th
a they have a big sponsor do on the 10th.
The few others are leaving tomorrow, by heli or by foot to
Lobuche or Island Peak .
Tonight, as I was settling in my tent at 21:30 , I heard Monica, Adrian
and Sergey shouting my name across base camp. They’d finally got the cost for
switching team and wanted me to know and sleep on it to make a decision on
whether it was sensible.
To be honest, it wasn’t, GULP!!!
Lets sleep on it!!
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