Day 6, June 8th, 2012: Rest Day
Don't you just love a little facial edema (swelling) to wake up to in the morning? |
Don't worry--soon I was back to normal. Isn't our tent nice and...cozy? (Read: stuffed.) |
I was so eager to just get up there and summit, but after
yesterday I was very happy to have a
Rest Day. We didn’t exactly have a choice, though. The weather continues to be
very bad. There were huge thunder and lightning strikes less than 1km away last
night, and the “white out” conditions continue. The lightning was so bright
that, with my eyes closed, it felt like someone was shining a flashlight
directly into my eyes from a couple inches away. It makes sleeping a bit of a
challenge… Other than that though, it was pretty boring. (I kept wishing that I
hadn’t forgotten to bring my deck of cards to the mountain! Oops…)
To satisfy our boredom, Laura, Steph, and I decided we would
film a music video with my GoPro Hero II camera. We were debating which song to
do before Laura had the most brilliant idea: “Hello” by Dragonette. But we
would add our own twist to the song. Instead of singing the refrain the
traditional way, we would replace the “hello” with “cheylo”—the Russian
pronunciation of the word. This might be way funnier in person, but it
certainly gave us a good laugh and kept the spirits light throughout the day.
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it…) we weren’t
actually able to film the video… Next time…maybe on an Elbrus reunion trip? ;)
We stayed up late tonight—around 9pm—even though we are
technically supposed to head off to the summit at 2am tomorrow. The weather is
so bad that we are very doubtful it’ll happen. We’ll see… The weather on a
mountain is exceptionally unpredictable, so you never know. Maybe I’ll be
proven wrong!
Music video rehearsal with Laura (left) and Steph (right) |
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