Tomorrow's work will consist of hiking up to the next camp at about 18,000 feet and caching their extra food and fuel. They have a good view of most of the elevation gain, nestled as they are in a fairly deep cirque. The big, snow covered peaks to the north are just starting to come into view over the edge of the cirque. Tomorrow's views will expand tremendously, and they will be looking across at the glaciated Cerro Ameghino just to the east.
I received a nice email from Hazel yesterday! There is limited internet access from the Plaza Argentina basecamp and she took advantage of it to communicate with some of her friends. I'm going to take some liberty here and post from her email:
"Dear Todd,
Thank you so much for making contact with my friend Blanche .....and also for fielding all those emails from me ol' mates....would you mind just forwarding them to my email address as above? Then I can check out who loves me when I return to civilization!!!
Hey...Chris is great! Great style of leadership and tops today especially when we did a hard carry up to the camp 1...in horrid winds. We are a tight knit group and all doing pretty well....at least that is what Chris says but he would say that wouldn't he!!!!!
Any way thanks again...better offski
Cheers
Hazel"
I will email all of you who have passed along regards and warm wishes with Hazel's current email address, which I suppose is easier for her to access than her work(?) email.
3 comments:
The scenery for the hike from Camp 1 sounds stunning. I hope that everyone will be taking pictures for the armchair observers amongst us!
It is great to hear that the team is doing well.
As always please tell Karin that her Family in south africa thinks of her all the time and we hope that she is having a blast!
Hugs
schoemans
A very well done from me here at Bradfield - working to the bitter end - can't imagine where I would rather be!
Checking this blog to see how you are getting on is helping the time go by. Work life gets boring when the kids have gone home.
Great that you are coping with the altitude so far and it sounds as if you are having fun to boot!
Steve Buchanan
The account of this journey gives us a thrill just reading it. Sounds as if you are all taking a lot of justified precautions.
Meg is home the house is slowly getting decorated and we'll miss Ryan at Christmas but look forward to seeing him in the new year with Kate
Love Mom and Dad
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