Day 20  - 4/8/03  - Monday

Lovely and warm in my sleeping bag and tent but its freezing outside, ice on the inside of the tent, frozen water bottles, etc., we eat breakfast and leave around half 8 we spend morning gaining altitude and loosing vegetation, by lunch (pasta salad at nearly 5000m!) around 1pm. There's rock and lichen and a little moss to keep us company. We arrive in camp just before 4 pm, although an hour or so was spent being 'taught' how to scramble on rocks. Francis has had a bad day, feeling the affects of the altitude. The decision is made to drop him down, Robert also goes due to vertigo, and Colin because he's also got some signs of altitude problems, George goes with them. Simon would have gone with them but he made a fuss and refused to move so he stays.