Rotation

I haven't been posting much to focus on my health and the mountain. In the meantime, we've been busy, completing our acclimatization rotations and fully readying ourselves for the summit bid. Now we're all waiting in base camp, going on daily hikes to maintain fitness, and trying to come up with creative ways to deal with the boredom. I've managed to stay quite healthy though I do have a horrible case of "batman neck" as I must have slept funny last night.I'd give myself a "B" on the acclimatization rotation. Given that I'm attempting without oxygen, my goal was to sleep at camp 3 and climb potentially as high as the Yellow Band at 25,000 ft. The camp 3 trip with Furtemba went fine, though I just felt flat between camp 2 and 3. The next morning, the effort of just putting on my boots was an ordeal and I had a couple dizzy spells that really convinced me we should be going down. Fortunately, just a drop of a couple hundred meters and my body and mind started coming back.Now we're playing the waiting game. The main issue here is the weather, with high winds blasting the upper mountain until the 9th or even 11th. There are still about two full workdays of rope fixing left on the mountain which require good weather, so looks like we're on track for a mid-May summit push. Take care,Hari