I climbed the low rock pillar and reached the snow and ice. Now at 5 700 m

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Hello everybody!

Thanks for the weather forecast, we've got it. Several days the weather keeps good. Sunny days.

Yesterday I come down to base camp, having the night at 5 700 meters. I climbed the low rock pillar and reached the snow and ice. I again was impressed by the grandiose Himalayan spaces: from the lower point the overall of pillar part looks like about 100 meters, but in reality it is about 400 meters! The height is storing from point to point. Now it is still 5 900 m. I have already AID worked and in the rock shoes - free climbing and swim in the snow...

The state of the snow - the separate story. The South Face of Nuptse constantly in the sunny light, the a little bit melt snow almost doesn't held: no snow, no water, something... And when climbing, I always fell that in the next moment I can slide with the snow down.

Today is the rest day. Tomorrow I go again up. I still have the rope store, so I fix it in the most difficult points. To come to fix rope is now out of sense "up-down, up-down", the distance is too large for it. So I will go up and several days work there. God only knows what weather would be in several days.

That's all for now,
Valera, Olga.

4.10.2002, 11:55

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