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Show Russell Jacob 16 December 2009 uh .. .room for three large tents, uh, squeezed together. This was to be our, well, Jorasmo's place to ... he would remain there while we were higher on the mountain and up until we came back down to him. And then, he would, uh, leave and arrange for the return of the mules in order for us to get all of our gear back down into trucks. Uh, we felt pretty good. We were all acclimatized. We thought we didn't need to spend another night there on the ledge. So, one night was sufficient. Uh, we all packed. I think I packed, it seemed, uh, more than the other three. Oh, I don't know why I had so much dried food with me and gear. I just felt that, you know, I didn't know how long it was gonna take us. Uh, whether it was gonna be, you know, five days or seven days. So I thought, well, I'll just try to be prepared for whatever comes our way. In case we get stranded in a storm, we'll have the, uh, the food and supplies to hunker down for a couple of days. Les, I think, uh, managed to escape with just a small rucksack filled with all of his needs for the climb. Um, he said he had just everything he needed split between him and his, uh, bunkmate, Terry Lien, with the tent that they had with them. Uh, so we were off. Um, we hiked for a ways before we ran into climbers from various, um, countries and states, uh, that had been hanging out on these small, little platforms for days and days and days just to acclimatize. MD: Um-hum. RJ: Um, I guess they felt that they would just jump to the chase and acclimatize as they went up Huascaran, which as we could see was not the fruitful thing to do. MD: Not working for them? RJ: Their success rate would plummet, and they' d ... and it was just too many days not doing [anything] and being idle on the ledge and just basically waiting for your blood |
