Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Intermediate Camp - 19,000 feet

So intermediate, intermediate camp was @ about 18000 feet. Intermediate camp is about 1000 feet farther up the mountain. It might seem like we are moving slow. Uh, we are. Yaks take time to load and all of us are feeling some effects of the altitude. Me, I'm glad that I spent 500 dollars on the best sleeping bag I could find. I found a brand new one for $439.
This is the clan in front of some rock monument thing. What you CANT see from this photo is that I sat the camera down on timer (10 seconds) and ran (that is right, about 18.500 feet) across so I could be part of the pciture. Took like 20 minutes for me to get my breath back. Not really it was only like 18 minutes.
I think Tom took this photo.
It started to clear up and this was a shot I took from inside my tent, out the back door.

Lastly, Colin took this shot. It is looking back towards Everest Base Camp, and as you can see the weather is starting to clear up. I think there was at least 6-8 inches of new snow here.

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