The day dawned slowly but with a clear and spectacular view around us. Behind us Island Peak's ice wall sat on the top of the immediate horizon (pictured) whilst around us were the most clear and beautiful mountains I had ever seen. It was as if Mother Nature was saying - 'OK you've had a lot of mist - just now look at what you have missed!' (pictured).Pete got up to admire the view too but he was not in a good way and after a few hours he announced that he needed to go down, Looking at him I noticed his lips were blue and he was slurring his speech. Definitely time to descend and one of the Sherpas took him down to base camp 350m below us and then on back to Chukung.
I sat and waited for the others to come down. Around 15.30 I saw a couple of specks on the high horizon and signaled to one of the Sherpas to join me going yup to meet them. Very sensibly he grabbed a thermos of hot water, some mugs and tea and set off at a pace that I could not match!
I climbed up to around 5700m and met the two marks as they came down. they had had an amazing time but were unable to reach the top as it turned out to be too dangerous to scale the last 100m! We descended to Attack Camp and some food before packing everything up and then descending back to Chukung down the very steep tracks for the 8.5km trek.
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