2010年12月9日星期四

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So we made a plan to join the Gondogoro Safety Team (ol’ Green Teeth, as it were) the next day to refix the ropes so that we could leave the replica iluxury watches following day. We started off at 6 a.m. Green Teeth drank tea and scanned the heavens for any kind of sign that would cancel our mission. As the day dawned, we reluctantly left Hushpang. We topped out at 5,500 meters (18,045 feet) on Gondogoro-la. Trekking from south to north, you ascend the la with an amazing view of Masherbrum on your left, and as you crest the saddle,

What was supposed to have taken 1.5 hours to get to the base of the ropes took us (primarily Fredric and I) three hours of breaking trail through replica Longines watches deep snow while Green Teeth guided from behind. By the time we reached the ropes around 9 a.m., the sun was blazing. The Safety Team deemed the avalanche risk too high to continue and called for a retreat. After the difficult approach, I was tired, hot, and fuming about having to retreat.

Nice days are rare in the Karakorum, and if we didn’t fix the route right then, we’d be wasting a gorgeous day and pushing our plans back yet another day. At this rate, we’d never reach K2. In the end, Fredrik’s cool mountain sense intervened, and he replica Vacheron Constantin watches agreed the avalanche risk was too high, but we could return at midnight when conditions should be more stable. The porters could follow two hours behind us, which would give us time to fix the ropes. To me, this idea sounded like a junk-show recipe, but I had no better plan and had to agree.

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