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Show Russell Jacob 16 December 2009 you know, a ruckus outside where other climbers had come up from below. And it was a pretty large camp. You could have gotten, oh, twenty tents up there easily. Uh, it was on solid ice. I mean, we had pickets to hold our tents down, and we left them there, uh, while we climbed higher. But one of the climbing groups that reached that platform had one of their tents ruined by fire. You know, any time you're climbing at those altitudes, you're always cooking inside your tent. And if you're not careful, things can happen. And, uh, the discussion wasn't elaborate, but they were in dire straits and were in need of food, and I happened to be the lucky one for them to have brought an extra amount of food, uh, up to that point. So, I furnished them, as a group actually. I just. .. we all just decided we'd give what we could to the group in need. And they offered us money. Uh, I don't know if we took any, but they were very grateful and, uh, I think more so than anything they were surprised that we had so much food with us. Enough food that they could actually perhaps make and continue the climb themselves without having to turn back. Um, I don't know whether they did or not. It seemed like as we climbed the next day, it was just the four of us. Two groups of two that continued on long before, uh, sun up, climbing with headlamps of course, knowing that we had to go to about twenty-two hundred feet to reach the summit. A little more than twenty-two -hundred feet from our camp. So we climbed and we climbed, and there were some good sections, some steep sections along big, large blocks of ice, uh, seracs, uh, and crevasses, and it seemed to be quite enjoyable. But I recall at the time, I couldn't imagine going any higher. I mean, I'd take ten steps and have to just hang out and just wait and just look around and then take ten more. And then it got to be a game, well, I'll take five and then count to three and take another five. And it was just that way all the way up the last section of the |
