DESCENDING TO BASE CAMP

Carlos was not feeling very well when he woke up for the summit push, on Wednesday morning. A very strong sore throat made him delay his summit push. Finally he left camp IV at 4 o’clock in the morning. He had long hours ahead before reaching the summit, as there are more than 800 meters drop from camp IV to the summit. At three o’clock in the afternoon Carlos was 200 meters away from the summit, around three hours walk, which would make him reach the summit almost in the dark, and what was worse, having to go down at night. Due to the time, the extreme tiredness and the bad sore throat, and the state of some of his fingers, he made the hard but sensible decision to turn around towards camp IV. He slept there with the intention to go down to the base camp today. He has a long day ahead, and when he arrives at the base camp he will contact us.