getting close

Day 5 was easy. Only 4 hrs trekking.

But to get us up to base camp at 15,000 ft, so oxygen was a bit of a problem. Tying bootlaces was becoming a huge effort. In fact everything had to be done really slowly to avoid getting out of breath.

Trying to retain as much energy as possible, knowing the summit climb would suck it all out of us.

Only problem was we knew we'd have to get out of bed to start that summit climb at 11.30 pm. Day 6 was going to be hell.