01.05.2005: Second ascent cancelled

The mountain dictates our plans. The night to Sunday, there was heavy snow and an ascent became more and more unreal. I (Olaf) awaked several times at night and hoped that it will stop snowing. But when Chengba started his activities in the kitchen, it does not.


Our basecamp under a thick layer of snow.

One problem is that Jana get stucked in camp 1 and we have no radio contact to her yet. But the camp is a good shelter and there is no reason to cause concern. Moreover, she is not alone there. Kami Shingi has spent the night there as well and he is a very experienced sherpa.

But this is not the only problem. Thomas got seriously sick. Yesterday, he decided not to ascend tomorrow because he wanted to cure an upcoming influenza. But this morning he felt even worse, and he looked so.

At the moment we control his body temperature and dig into our medicine kit. It is silly that just in the moment when we have a sick person in the basecamp, Jana, our medical doctor, is at camp 1 and we cannot talk to her. Therefore, I will try to do her job (remark from the webmaster: Olaf is veterinary surgeon).