As I headed over to the north side of the ridge and began the ascent of the zigzags, I noticed how many tents had disappeared from Nidos. The empty spaces everywhere suddenly brought it home …
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13. Moving up to “Nidos”…
As I poked my head out in the morning of 16th January, I could hear Tim and Jim poking fun at the twenty four hour forecast for precipitation, which we had been gratuitously given the …
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Soon after midnight I woke up and got the impression that something had changed. The wind was still just as strong, and still making just as much noise, but my tent was no longer being …
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A steady strong wind would probably have made it much easier to sleep. The problem was that several minutes of silence was inevitably followed by an ominous whistle, the precursor of a vicious gust, whereupon …
Continue reading10. Carrying to 4900m
Peering out of the tent at 9:16 on 13th January, everything looked very much as it had done the previous morning, and the morning before that : the conditions were clear, calm and cold; the …
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