05/06/2007 12:57
… after summit I should be stayed almost one and a half hour on a crest at 8500 meters. I was waiting for Sergey Larin who was the last in our team. At last, about 12 a.m. he has informed me, that he has safely gone down from the Second Step. Then I have decided that the most dangerous part of a route is already behind, and I could start go down to the camp 8300 m . Oxygen in my last cylinder was practically finished, but I not too worried as felt well enough in spite of the fact that all night I worked on a route as the first, making a track in deep snow and finding fix-ropes. To the ... Details » |
