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Show Russell Jacob 16 December 2009 mountain. It was all solid ice. Uh, our crampons probably didn't penetrate more than maybe a half an inch to three quarters of an inch. Uh, it was extremely cold. I think most of us were wearing two wool hats at the same time plus, uh, a full suit, a gore-tex suit and down beneath that. So it was quite cold. We did reach the summit. Uh, Les reached the summit first and started to walk down slowly, uh, with Terry. And I and John Meadows, uh, reached the summit, and they had actually retreated far enough to where they couldn't actually take a snapshot of us on the summit. Luckily, there was another foreign group that had reached the summit just a little after the time we did. And they took our summit shots. And we actually, uh, sort of traveled together on the way down. Uh, I think there were at least three of them, four of us, seven total. MD: What's, uh, what's the summit of Huascaran like? RJ: Uh, it's big. It's large. It's not sharp at all. It's, uh, gosh, it's almost like, uh, the summit of Rainier, except it doesn't have that depression that Rainier has for its volcanic , uh, chute or flute or whatever you ... MD: Either one works for me. RJ: ... or the geologists use for that term. But it was quite large. It was quite ... I'd say it was bigger than Rainier's summit. Uh, it seemed like you could probably get one or two football fields on top. But there were portions of the summit that were obviously the highest point than the others, so, you know, it was just basically a bump on top that was just covered in snow and ice. MD: How about the view from it? RJ: Well, the view was, uh ... and, you know, I've got slides that would convey that it was unmatched by most. About twenty years, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, there was |
