27 April Summit Climb Dispatch: Exploring C1

We awoke to our 6000 metre camp 1 breakfast and lots of hot drinks, then stepped out of the tent on a sunny morning for a 2.5 hour jaunt up the glacier toward camp 2. We wanted to stretch our legs and do a bit of an acclimatization hike. Goal Achieved! We found some nice steep snowy hills to hike up and down, and blow the cobwebs out of our lungs and brains. After a good long stroll, we came back to C1 for lunch and a relaxing afternoon of reading, conversing, card playing, and napping. The weather was absolutely textbook mountain weather today. The morning was bright and warm and sunny and windless, clouds rolled in at lunch, it snowed 1 cm, .5 inch in the afternoon, and the skies cleared out in the evening. We are feeling much more comfortable with this high altitude. Our headaches are clearing, appetites resurging, thirst bubbling-up and we can sleep for longer uninterrupted chunks of the night. In other words, it seems like we are getting acclimated to C1 – 6100 metres, and may be ready to walk up the Western Cwm to Camp 2. Exciting!!!!! Our trusty Sherpas have detected our hunger for the heights, and tell us they have been busy setting up tents for our kitchen and sleeping in C2, so here is hoping the weather holds steady and let's go and try to get up there!

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