Sept 22nd

We woke to another stunning scene, there was a slight crust of snow on the tents and apparently 30 cm at BC. We were lucky that it had been such a low storm. Tchouky left early to chase the porters and I climbed with the rest of the group. As this is the last phase of the acclimitisation, I gave the Sherpa's a good size compression sack with things that were more useful for C2/3. I'm not sure how I did it, but I still managed to get over 20 kg into my backpack which is the hardest physical section of climbing. I quickly got myself relegated to the back of the group, involuntarily, but the pace was nice and easy for me. The last time we had come up empty to this altitude, it had been about 3.5 hours, this time I was around 5. A huge difference and it actually started to worry me until someone pointed out that my pack was so damn heavy. I reached C2 just in time for the sun to hide behind the mountain which is when the temperature drops. I just crawled into my summit suit and was quite happy.