K2 2004: a well earned rest at base camp: Italian expedition Everest/K2 2004 expedition

K2 2004 - 50 years later

K2 South: a well earned rest at base camp

After having pushed themselves all the way up to camp 1 and having completed the construction and layout of Camp Italy, the first group of the K2 South expedition, who departed Italy on May 19th, gives itself a well-earned day of rest. Some practice the art of high mountain dress while others build snowmen. Tomorrow we expect to complete the set up of camp 1.

Wednesday, June 9, - Base Camp – K2 South

We awoke to a sunny day, but soon realized that it would be of short duration as heavy cloud cover was closing in from Concordia.

The art of wasting time reigns supreme in these days at base camp: After over 12 hours spent lying in our tent in our sleeping bags, thinking of who knows what, we find ourselves meeting over breakfast to plan somewhat useless occupations like how to cut Coco’s hair given that yesterday, in learning how to use the battery charging device, we were able to charge up Rico’s hair trimmer.

We need to master this art otherwise we will end up overly nervous or overdoing too many things.  So we make time to build a snowman, while we try to figure out how to cure our cook’s extremely painful toothache.

Today we were hoping for some visitors from Concordia, and instead, nothing.  So we sit and watch the crows recycle our damp waste.  We wait for the snow to melt while we move the usual supply barrels back and forth.

We are also making plans for tomorrow.  If the weather holds, we hope to go up to camp 1 to lay it out properly.

Tomorrow will tell, Ciao, Mauri

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