The Trek Day 4 - November 19

I wake at 7. I have slept for 12 hours after yesterday's gruelling events. The tops of the mountins are visible from our tent as we leave it and I remeber why we are doing this challenge - to challenge ourselves and create an affinity with the Tibetans who walk for 26 days over these mountains to get to India. The A team left at 6am for their climb to 4300m. The B team has a leisurely morning and leaves at 10am for a short walk to the "glacier" which we should be back from by lunch. Whilst Beck valantly attempts to join us, by the 2nd hill she realises she is too unwell and turns back. Whilst the walk is simple compared to what we have been doing, yet still hilly, the thin air above 3300m makes it difficult.

The glacier is a 200m long strip of ice at the junction of 3 crevasses on one of the peaks. After a short break we decide to head back and the guides (who when originally asked where we were going that morning pointed to the top of the peak directly in front of camp to which we all mutinied), suggested we wait where we are for the A team who would be returning that way. We had been told they would not be back til dinner and it was now only 1.30pm. We asked how long they thought we would be waitng and they said very soon. Experince told us to head back (the A team arrived 4 1/hrs later, which is how long we would have been waiting if we had listened to the guides!!). I spend the afternoon reading in the tent and join Beck and the others for dinner around the campfire. My stomach bloating, cramps and output are increasing and I get some pills from Dr Rajiv and retire early, Beck stays up and chats around the fire.

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