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Anyway, now I will tell you little bit more information about the climb.  From the beginning was necessary to climb through at least 150 m of incredibly difficult condition of an icefall.  That climb took more than 2 hours.  It felt like when you try to run cross the street on the red light.  In next hour we walked under the north wall of Dhaulaghiri, where we could see an open valley with many breaches. 

The weather was so hot there that it even burned Kamil’s and Roman’s thighs after they open their pans for a little bit of suntan.  Thanks to the practice of a previous climb in this weather and conditions that can occur, we knew that we had to wear white thermo cloths from CRAFT and a white hat with a cloth pull down to the neck.  Not everybody had this outfit and who had only a black T-shirt would rather wish to be in the hell.    

Next part we came along a slope, where the steepness grew rapidly.  Right above the slope was a large irregularity of glacial ice called ‘serac’, where we traversed and finally reached another camp CI.  That camp was built one day before we arrived by the Swedish group of climbers I mentioned before.  Their first tent was destroyed thanks to an avalanche that came down one day before.  While we traversed, we noticed where exactly they tried to find their camp, unfortunately without any success.   

The weather changed to worse very quickly.  Our pack carriers run away due to this weather condition.  It snowed at least 1m of snow up there.  Fortunately most of the snow subsided pretty fast.   

By then we climbed over 1km and except our total exhaustion we were also extremely dehydrated.  While I thought we had a plenty of water with us my friends informed me that we have to stop and cook some more snow and find a proper place for a tent.  They took with them about 1 liter of water lesser than me. The weather also changed very quickly.   

In the snow we made a platform to cook.  I continued to search for a good place to build a tent.  It was very difficult to get oriented in the fag.  I couldn’t recognize what was flat hill area and where breaches in the avalanche started.  The weather condition didn’t allow me to search enough and I had to return back to my friends.  They cooked a tea while I was gone.  After we finished a soup we decided to move at least to the place that seamed to me a little bit more protected against a wind and with a least amount of snow.   

The time ran fast and we built a tent between breaches in the snow.  We should be in the height of 5 600m by now.  It looked like we managed to climb about 1 200m of height.  I believe that it was a great performance.  Finally we cooked plenty of water for another day. It is time to go sleep.  Good night! Radek Jaros

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