29 April SummitClimb Dispatch: Camp 2

In the interest of acclimatization we hung around camp 2 today. Drinking water, soup, tea, juice. Eating 3 hearty meals. The weather was mixed sun, cloud, snow, no wind. Camp 2 is very interesting, spread across a moraine at the edge of the ice sheet which fills the Western Cwm. This moraine which cradles C2 is about 130 metres in relief, slopes at about 18 degrees, and is appx 1 km in length. The moraine is made of ever-churning dirt, rocks, gravel and silt. Layers of ice and crevasses are also interlaced. Flat shelves have been leveled into the moraine up and down at intervals, and on these shelves are placed different camps, some quite large. Nowadays all trash is hauled down to basecamp, but in the old days, most trash was 'crevassed' on the spot. Because of the porous and moving nature of the moraine, old trash constantly resurfaces and has to be cleaned up again and again!

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