Team International Cow Peeps settle in to a chilly Advanced Base Camp with a little wind along their ascent up to 14,200 feet

 

Friends, family, loved ones, Stuart here, Alp 2/International Cow Peeps.

Pleased to inform you we’re all up at the 14,200 Camp/Advanced Base Camp. We got up here today in relatively good style and are just bedding down for the night. A little bit chilly up here, we had some wind on the way up, which kind of sorted the men out from the boys; it does challenge the skills that will be useful in the upper part of the mountain.

Looks like the sat phone’s working up here, seems to be improving, a little bit like Sam Hennessy with altitude, so hopefully I’m able to get these cybercasts and I’m not just talking to cyberspace here. Everybody sends their love, and thanks for tuning in.

And tomorrow’s probably going to have a relatively easy, active rest day going to pick up a cache that we put in a couple of days ago; so a little backcarry and we’ll get our food and fuel up here and move on from there.

Thanks. Bye for now.

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