Viento, hawa, wind, whatever you want to call it, it has stuck us here. Some say the biggest game in climbing is the waiting game. I say they are right. You can only eat so many jelly beans, read so much of your books, and visit so much with neighbors. Now is the time of the season that people start to get cranky (even the chess players are looking a little irritable).
Up at 3am today, we sat, after a quick breakfast, to listen to Camp II tell us over the radio that the winds were higher than yesterday. We waited for an hour, falling asleep in the kitchen around the heater, dreaming of either going back to bed, or getting on the road, or beaches in Thailand... wait a minute, that was my dream... anyway, suffice it to say we are still here at Base Camp, hoping to leave tomorrow early again to get to Camp III in the next few days.
Not much else to report. Know that all of you at home are in our thoughts as you always are, for without your support and love, we would have surely gone coo coo by now. So hopefully our next report will be from Camp II enjoying the sunset.
Till then,
Luis
