Simone Moro: "There is snowing since three days"
Simone Moro informs (news from www.russianclimb.com): 24 April, 2004:
There's snowing since 3 days and since 3 days Denis and Boris were working on the face. Yestreday they have fixed 100 meters of rope (rock and mixed climbing). Today they were remaining in the tent at 6100 m the whole day and communicated us by radio that they started to come down at 4.p.m. Now they should be in ABC and tomorrow here in base camp. In the next report I will send you the photo of the 3 days storm.....
27 April , 2004:
Hello Friends. Today is the eighth day of bad weather. It continues to be cloudy and sometime it start to snow. Now we are tired to continue to get restand hope in some changes. But we have no choice. We have to wait the blue sky and the sun because all the mountain are covered of fresh snow and Baruntse too...
The section we have to climb before to touch the summit, are 3 big plates of ice covered by dangerous snow. We don't want to increase the danger of our climb and die for it. The heroes are only in TV and in the book and our icy face and life has to remain in the realty and not in a ephic tragic strory...
So we have to be patient and wait for the good weather. I and Denis Today came back to base camp after 2 days spent in Chhkung at 4700 meter. Camos and Boris will come tomorrow here after the last day in a warm and clean lodge.
Ciao
28.04.2004
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