Team ascends to camp 3 and begins descent to basecamp

 

Hi everyone, Ben here from camp 2 on Manaslu. Today we were able to climb up to camp 3 at 21,900 ft! Took us about 3 hours to get up there with the team, everyone did excellent getting up there. We woke up this morning to some sunshine and had really nice weather throughout the whole day today. Everybody is doing well, we are going to head back tomorrow morning towards basecamp to complete our second rotation! We’ll be watching the weather the next several days, resting up and planning for our summit attempt. Everybody is doing well here!

 

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