Hello Everyone,
Today, after breakfast and a game of snooker we headed up the trail to Samdo for the night gaining 1,000ft. The team is doing great. We are having fun and looking forward to getting to Basecamp in a couple days.
Mike taught us all Snooker and is of course the reigning champ, but we have hopes of getting one more game in before we head to Basecamp.
Talk to you tomorrow,
Ben Jones
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