Pirates of the Carabiners Arrive at 11 camp

Hey everyone Nik here with the Pirates of the Carabiners. We have continued to push higher higher up the mountain and have found ourselves at 11 camp. Everyone is psyched although a little bit tuckered out after the last two days of effort so we’re gonna take a nice lovely luxurious rest day tomorrow with some delicious breakfast. Not too early not too late. Nice long session of hot drinks no doubt and then we’re just gonna kinda chill out do whatever people want, play some cards, socialize around camp, sleep in or do whatever we want except for work hard. Everyone’s doing really well we’re having a great time up here. The weather has kinda been in and out but nothing too nasty so far. We got camp setup, everyone’s working really well together as a nice team and I love to see when it comes together on this mountain and yeah we’re loving it. We’re just doing the thing up here. Well anyway that’s all for now from the Pirates of the Carabiners, stay tuned, till next time.

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