moses peak #2

what can i say, we did a lot of walking, mostly through big boulder fields. as always, at about 3.5k metres asl, i started noticing the thinner air more and more. unlike the first day, i felt pretty good, but it might've just been the fact that i took some meds in the morning. elias was struggling quite a bit, so i gave him my pole, which he somehow managed to bend to shit. in the afternoon, we reached the snow border at around 4300 meters and set up camp there. i went a bit further into the snow trying to find a small shepherds hut that should've been there as the end point of that day's hike, but didn't see anything. had an amazing sunset and some not so amazing pasta.

just as we settled into our tents, nika told us he was "feeling cold from the inside of his bones", which sounded an awful lot like hypothermia. he had underestimated the trek and hadn't brought gloves or a proper sleeping bag. it was too late to go back down, so all we could do was make him some hot tea and send matthieu into his tent to give him some extra warmth. it was obvious that we needed to reajust plans in the morning.Read more