Base camp Plaza de Mulas.
I did not sleep as well last night as I would have hoped, but feel great today. When I left my tent, which is a four season, altitude tent, meaning that it is much more closed than what I am used to, the entire camp was frosted. Some people were busy getting stuff ready to load carry or leave, others, like me, just planned on taking it easy.
Penitentes, a typical ice and snow formation of the region. Joe Simpson hates them, and I thought of him every time we had to cross one.
On the schedule for tomorrow, we go to high camp number 1, the first of 3, but only to load carry. That means we carry the food we will need for the next 6 days and leave it there. Then we will keep going further ( high camp 1, also called Canada, is at 4900 m, about 700m higher than base camp) to keep acclimatizing. Perhaps as high as Camp 2, Nido de condores, which is at 5300. Then we come back down. And we have another rest day. After that, if the doctors give us the ok (if our oxygen saturation levels are good, and we have no symptoms of altitude sickness) then we go... we move to a different high camp every day for 3 days, then go for the summit on the fourth day, then back to base camp. But we still have 2 days here for now.
River with broken bridge that has to be crossed to get to the hotel.
The camera I gave you the link to is actually a picture camera, it takes a picture every 3 minutes, the one at 12h had me on it, but not looking at the camera. Will keep trying, but may skip the ones during the day, and just go for the evening, so local montreal time 6pm and 7pm. After that it will not work, because it is solar energy.
I woke up this morning with the view of the mountains, and was truly happy.
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