Rest Day……and some pictures along the way

Hello Everyone,

We had another nice rest day today. I think everyone is definitely ready to get back on the mountain tomorrow after a couple days to rest and recover. We’ve had great meals, time to wash our clothes, clean ourselves, and now we are ready to head back up for our second rotation on the mountain. Our plan will be to leave tomorrow and spend two nights at camp 1 and then one night at camp 2, and all the way back down to ABC to begin preparing for our summit rotation.

The next posts will be some pictures from the last couple of weeks. It’s been a good rest day activity to go through some of the pictures I’ve been taking over the last month.

Hope everyone is well!

Ben

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