Everest 2006: ANDALUCIA EVEREST EXPEDITION: Back in Base camp

BACK IN BASE CAMP

They will be back at 6,300 m of altitude in two days

Juan Antonio Huisa and Pedro Lopez will climb again tomorrow, first thing in the morning to intermediate camp and then to advanced base camp.  They had both gone down to base camp and Rongbuk to rest after a first contact with the 6,300 m of altitude they had reached.

Although recovery at 5,200m is not optimal, the two climbers of Andalucia Everest Expedition have recovered strength to make a new excursion to advanced base camp.  They will both leave early in the morning, alone - with no Sherpas - in a march of about six hours up to Intermediate Base Camp, where they will find refuge in the same tents where they were seven days ago.

Both have recovered strength and acclimatized their bodies for the next few days to continue with their feat to reach the summit of the highest mountain of the planet and finish the ascent of the highest summits of each continent. A matter of illusion... and luck 

Huisa and Pedro have been pursuing Everest for five long weeks.  Just a handful out of the around seven hundred people who will attempt it this season will make it.  The chosen ones, those capable of making one more step when the legs, lungs and heart tell you not to do it and turn around.  The ascent to this great thing is a matter of illusion, of courage and to defeat fear and logic.  Also a matter of luck.  Luck has to be added to a good plan of progress on its tragic slopes and also the alliance to other climbers.  And with the weather.  If the weather permits... 

Translated from Spanish by Jorge Rivera

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