By Ueli Steck
Thengpo basecamp - Tuesday, April 8, 2008:
We left the village of Namche Bazar (3440m) on Monday, March 31st. Simon and I passed the village of Thame (3800m) and his famous monastery and reached Thengpo on the same day. Thengpo is located at 4250m. Here we will spend the following weeks. Just in front of our camp we can see Tengkampoche (6500m) with his huge and impressive wall.
On Friday, April 4, we moved to higher altitudes. We spent the night at 5640m on the Trashi Laptsa pass. On Saturday we went higher up and then descended back to the Trashi Laptsa pass, where we spent another night. On Sunday, April 6, accompanied by heavy snowfall, we trekked back to our basecamp at Thengpo.
The conditions in the wall of Tengkampoche don't look too bad. However there is still slightly too much snow in the wall, due to the heavy snowfall on Sunday. Further, today the winds were too strong on the summit. The forecast for the following days is promising. We will have a first go on Thursday.
Due to technical reasons, I am not able to send any pictures.
See you soon, Ueli
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