And it did improve! Thank goodness… It actually wasn’t
looking very good when we woke up at 8am this morning. We had a team meeting to
discuss our plan: go up, or stay here. A couple members of our team were not
eager to push on in potentially bad conditions, but I and several of my
teammates countered that if the conditions worsened, we would just turn around
and abandon the attempt. We took the risk and ascended Motorcycle Hill—the
slope where the four Japanese climbers had been killed a week before—for the
first time. Though it looked incredibly imposing and difficult, it really
wasn’t so bad. The weather actually ended up improving significantly and we
were able to put our cache in at the bottom of Windy Corner. We returned to
Camp II very excited by our achievement, but still wary of the avalanche risk
that haunts the mountain after any significant snowfall.
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