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Diary
by Kenny Ions;
"I'll
bash on, Day 10, 4th of October 99, Monday - Tangnag to Khare.
Weather: cloudy as usual but with some views and our altitude
today is 5015m, over the 5000 mark! Well, we've all made it
up this far and I'm happy to write that we're all in very
good form, no mountain sickness and probably not even a blister.
The pace is great, and we've all plodded up here nicely. I
had some great views this morning of some corniches where
last night's avalanches had obviously occurred. All a little
preview of what's to come no doubt, until, guess what, the
clouds came in again and this time it brought for a novelty,
it brought snow instead of rain which was obviously much better.
The
food is still excellent although there seems to be an increase
in the bean and pea content especially around the lunchtime
mark and with this in mind, I'll bring you the all new Mera
Peak farting league: In reverse order we have Ben, Guy and
Marcus who are basically doing fairly good impressions of
church mice, nothing going on there at all. Myself, Ken Ions
in fifth place, pot pourit and lavender being the order of
the day. Jeff Harper in fourth place with a very angry bottom.
Number three Kieran Doherty, rotten eggs being the order of
the day there. Number two, Toby Younger, who is basically
going at it like an elephant, and number one the Ayatollah,
leader of the group, Mr Toby Wootton who is just like a hot
air balloon, he can't stop. Well basically producing enough
hot air up here to float to the top of the mountain so if
you are thinking it's hard up here, it's pretty easy really.
Anyway
we arrived here at Khare to find that another expedition had
already arrived and I have to say, I was wholly unimpressed
by the amount of rubbish and kak lying about the place. It's
not the best site we've been to but I suppose that's just
a result of what we're doing up here.
Rest
day tomorrow and we're heading up to the edge of the glacier
and an acclimatization exercise with the sherpas. We're hopefully
going to cut a trail to high camp for us which I can tell
you now we've half done have done. I'm slightly concerned
that more snow is lying around the tent here tonight and obviously
it's not going to make it any easier to get to the top but
all in all and over all we're in good spirits and having a
good time."
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