Food stuff

Another question; what we eat.

I described what we are typically fed in the " a typical day" entry, but here are the extra I have brought:

Dried fruit of all sorts, but especially blueberries, for the antioxidants, and cranberries, to avoid urinary tract infections. Those two eaten on a daily basis, but most of the rest saved for when we are very active.

Vitamin C with zinc and Cold FX to avoid getting a cold. Morning and evening.

Glutamine powder for the same reason. No, it's not just to get bulky muscles, this actually helps muscles regenerate after hard work, so I am taking it twice a day especially on days that we have worked hard. It allows your body to heal without taking away your reserves, so your immune system stays strong.

Maltodextrine (gatorade-type powder) as well as gels, jelly beans, and chocolate. With the dried fruit, this is good energy for snacks during the day. They will be especially important on summit day, where we will be walking for about 14 hours in difficult conditions at an altitude where the body has a very hard time digesting anything, so the food needs to be practically sugar; readily available and digestible energy source.

Electrolytes in effervescent tablet form to be melted in our water. As the water here is from glaciars, it has not had the time to go down the mountains and get the minerals we are used to in our water.That means that the water won't actually hydrate you, it'll just go straight through. To avoid depleting our stock, these are good.

The funny thing is that, when I met Ryan's group, we all had pretty much the same things!