EVANS ON EVEREST 2010

Up at 1am and no sleep and really cold! Made a cup of tea and swallowed some snacks. No wind and a beautiful starry night. Put on crampons etc and we were off. Crossing a frozen lake, and then climbed up on to a glacier. With our head torches you see where you are putting your feet, but on idea where you are and can’t really see where you are going. Just one foot in front of the other and let your mind wander. Eventually we came to a granite rock section, so it was crampon off. I found this part really hard especially climbing over boulders in my plastic alpine boots. I feel my legs aren’t good, I was tired already and started getting a bit wobbly.

Just below the granite slabs below the snow Col, I decided it was not my day, and would turn around. Robin and Troy also decided to join me.

So with almost relief, we headed back down in the dawn light for the big descent past High Camp to Advanced Base Camp.