Monday May 08, 2006

May 7, 2006 North Col

Made my first trip up to the North Col yesterday. It was a long hot day; the weather has been very hot during the day with very light winds. It so hard to breathe as you climb the fixed ropes up to 23,000ft I actually think I burnt the front of my tongue. Some of the team stayed at the Col, I returned after carrying a load but will return tomorrow with my sleeping bad and aerogel sleeping pad and will spend my first night at 23,000ft. The team is planning on sleeping three nights at the North Col before coming down to ABC, and then all the way back to BC for a rest and recovery. At this altitude it's so hard for your body to heel. I cut my finger at base camp two weeks ago and it's still not held because the lack of O2.
The email address I gave people is having some problems so don't bother emailing.

Team dispatches are going out daily with photo that address is:
www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/dcxp4/

Hope that helps. Will drop a note when I get back from the North Col.. The summit looks so close now, but it's so far....

Anne