28 April SummitClimb Dispatch: C1 to C2
Weather is sunny-calm. After breakfast we stuff sleeping bags, load rucksacks, Sherpas take extra kit, and we're off. Up terrace, down basin, across pressure ridge, making end runs around long crevasses, crossing a shaky ladder. Leaving behind pillowy white terraces of camp 1, we crawl antlike onto massive windblasted plain of Western Cwm. In this great expanse of crevasseless ice, more than a kilometre across, an Airbus could land here, yet we are trapped within the heart of Everest itself. Crossing this frosty plateau should be easy but its not...Theres no air up here and I can't breathe dammit! Finally, after what feels like wading through jelly for hours, we reach the other side, where an amazing Sherpa gives us a sweet hot cup of juice. We hike up a steep scree moraine, breathlessly arriving at a 6350 metre ledge we'll call home for the next week. Welcome To C2 Friend!
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