Camp 13, Bengt reports: After 3 days waiting, we desperately wanted this to THE day. We peaked out at 5am and were met with gale winds, snow and zero visibility.
At 6 it was no better
But at 7am we saw the mountain! That got us going. We hurried through the routine morning stuff and scrambled out. – Only to be med by total whiteout.
We continued as if nothing. Packed the sledges, pottered around a bit and waited, refusing to give in to this blindfolded chess game with Mother Nature.
AND, at Noon it broke up! We hurried away. It was very steep, high and hard. The conditions were heavy but ok. As we neared the summit (the Paso Colonia), it all closed in again, but up we got!
We were extremely happy and it felt like a major victory. On the way down we got a huge bonus. The wind died down, the whiteout dissolved and the clouds departed. And for the thousands time we were completely flabbergasted to see these fantastic mountains appear around us. It can’t we described by words, and again our memory card in our cameras took a sever beating. It is just plain impossible to stop taking photos.
As we camped, it was a stunning sunset, nice and cold, and downright the 3 happiest campers in the world.
