Day to Re-establish the Safest Route
By Dave Hahn - May 5th, 2008 7:32 am GMT -0700
Great Outdoors, this is Dave Hahn calling you from the head of the Western Cwm. We’re up at Advanced Base Camp - Camp II. Not a bad day today, a little bit cloudy. We actually wouldn’t have minded it if it had been a little bit more cloudy. We ended up having to come up from Camp I in the heat today. Mid morning heat which makes it a lot harder. It was not so practical to get an early, early start out of Camp I with the new snow and the threat of avalanches on the other side of the Cum. So we plowed a trail to find the safest route up the route established by Icefall doctors. Everybody more recently has been going the short tack right close to Nuptse. But it seemed like a day to re-establish the more safe route right up the middle. So that pushed us a little late. It’s pretty nice here at Advanced Base Camp. Not very many people up here. Just Nicky, myself, Kirk Wedberg, and Sanduk Dorie, and a couple of our Advanced Base Camp staff. And then there’s just a scattering of other people. Many people have gone down valley or are waiting for the situation to be resolved that’s keeping us from going higher. Really tough to know what to make of that. We just get all sorts of such strange rumors, all day long from different corridors. Nobody knows what’s going on up there. It sure looked like a beautiful summit day today though, looking up. There was not a puff of wind on top. We ended up getting about eight inches of snow in the Western Cum. Not bad, not bad. Some of that is still sticking to the Lhotse Face. So we’re hoping that eases climbing on that. But we won’t get to sample it for a little while until things resolved. Well, I’ll let you know what happens. Bye for now.
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