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Life At Base Camp

I spent the last few days, resting and acclimatizing at base camp. Went to a hike to the “dry land” off the glacier for a day and two days of training on the glacier. Polishing our techniques on glacier travel, belay, ice climbing, going down Sherpa style, etc…
Here at base camp its getting really busy, from the Japanese camp mumbling at 5am and our other neighbors blasting music thru the night making it harder for us to rest, but we manage to deal with the disturbance and try to get as must sleep as possible.

I must admit our Chef Ali (Alexandra) is doing an extraordinary job in keeping us healthy, with amazing meals thru out the day. She is very creative, and for that moment we forget we are at 5,400m stuck on a glacier. If she keeps it up there is a chance we won’t be loosing much weight on this mountain breaking all records. We are also digging in our home made sweets and snacks thanks to Suzanne Al Houby (1st Arab Woman to Summit Everest)

Today will be our last training day before we head of on our second rotation. We will be leaving base camp around 4am to camp 1 where we will spent the night. Then head off to camp2 for 3 nights where we will also go up the Lhotse face and touch camp 3 before heading back down again to base camp.