All my various warm layers had been removed, and I was down to just a T-shirt, which felt very strange. I was soon overheating though, and half an hour out of base camp I remembered …
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22. Rescue… and Descent to Base Camp
Once outside, I found that luckily there was still very little wind, but that the air temperature had evidently continued its nose-dive while I had been inside the hut. I put on anything that wasn’t …
Continue reading21. The Descent to Berlin Camp
Lying on our backs remained the only acceptable activity for quite some time. Eventually I sat up and drank the rest of the liquid water in my bottle – about a quarter of the bottle …
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