When pictures say a thousand words…

This is Base Camp 24 hours ago, and this is Base Camp now… The stark difference a day can make.

The fall out from Cyclone Fani materialized absolutely as expected with large amounts of snowfall and associated high winds. As I write, it’s still snowing with 25cm already and counting. Reports from Camp 2 indicate they’ve had 2ft (60cms) and that at least 100 tents have been either destroyed or blown away from fierce winds, particularly on the night of the 2nd to the 3rd.

We sincerely hope that everyone is ok up there and we are relieved that our team are all safe, that our tents and gear were broken down and cached before the storm hit and that we won’t have to resupply food and fuel etc once this weather event has passed.

We know our team are in good spirits when their biggest complaint is that the digestive cookies aren’t the chocolate coated ones (looking at you Wayne!) ;P
Enforced rest day today but this weather looks like it should pass in the next 24hours and we’ll resume our schedule albeit with a little snow underfoot.

Cheers
Caroline