Friday 6th August 2010
Its 7am before I get out of bed and jump in the shower. I woke earlier than the alarm again today. about 6am, must be the early starts you get used to. There is one thing different about this morning, no climbing or trekking today! It feels good just to say that. As I'm getting ready I realise I have 3 blisters on my left hand and 5 on my right. I hadn't noticed them before. I still have no feeling as such in my big toes, I assume the nerve endings have been damaged from the constant battering they took on summit day. I also notice that I am still short of breath and a little light headed which hopefully will go away with a paracetamol and also my back hurts like never before. I'm assuming this is my body telling me its knackered, and I'm starting to wonder how long it will take to recover?
I am immensley proud of both mine and Simons achievement this last 6 days, but in particular summit day, where we were battling our own demons to ensure we gave it the best shot we had. On reflection and in discussion with Simon we agreed that not doing the last section together was the right thing to do and meant we both had a chance to get there. 2 knackered climbers trying to reach the summit when all we wanted to do was stop may have persuaded each other to stop, but we didn't. The fact that Simon summited 25 minutes before me does not matter, the challenge was to both summit and that is what we did. The scale of the achievement on Wednesday of this week is just starting to sink in. I'm looking out of the hotel window now listening to the rain and looking at the grey clouds over the mountain and just thinking how lucky we were as the weather window to summit has been closed now for 2 days.
I'm looking forward to coming home to my family and the creature comforts you get used to and take for granted. Not long now.
safe journey home and enjoy your family time
ReplyDeleteCongratulations , your famous in the Hinckley Times also!! See you soon
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