moses peak #3

nika decided to head back to camp one and was insistent that he could go alone, so the rest of us continued up the mountain through a rough boulder field topped with snow. it was a treterous mix of stone hopping, sinking into snow and trying to avoid stepping onto air bubbles. after just half an hour, matthieu and elias were already exhausted and made the decision to turn back and catch nika on his way down.

the rest of the group, now down to tom, jasper and me, tried its best to push onwards, but it was h-a-r-d. after 2 hours, we reached some small huts and realized that this was the place where we should've slept that night in order to be able to make the journey to high camp the next day. in short: we were super worn out already and technically hadn't even started that day's hike yet. we decided that it just wasn't going to happen, not at this time of year, not with this equipment, not with this (pretty inexperienced) group.

in retrospective, the others definitely had a lot more left in them than i did. i think i was still more sick than i'd wanted to admit in order to not sabotage the trek for the others. whatever, we decided to set up camp there and spent the day resting for the big descent.Read more