Camp 1 and back 12/9/06

I left advanced base camp (ABC) 5600m at 7.00am with my sherpa Lakapa and three other sherpas from Alpine Ascents International (AAI) from Seattle.
We all carried heavy loads to stock camp 1 at 6400m.
It is a horrible walk up on loose rock huraine scree for about 8km, then ramps up into a long difficult hill for 1 to 2.5 hours depending on loose rock. Two steps up, one back!
Usually it is rock all the way, but at the moment there is about 300m of slushy snow...fun!

We retied our tent more securely so that it will not get blown off the mountain, then helped the others dig platforms in the snow for their tents later.

Then back down to ABC by about 1am.

All as told to me by sat phone.

Roger